Continuing our conversation regarding the importance of links, I have a few more directories that you should look into submitting to. Links are an excellent way to optimize your website for the search engines. If you have not already, you should sign up with Google’s Webmaster tools. Once you sign up and verify your site with them, you have a whole array of tools to use in optimizing your site. You can upload an .XML site map, see if your pages are currently indexed and check on a variety of other information.
As discussed earlier, linking is extremely important in the optimization of your site. Many good quality links with anchored text are going to improve your site’s visibility. In fact, in Google’s Webmaster tools, when asked how you can improve your site’s rankings, they tell you specifically “webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages.”
These links carry more weight when they occur within text related to your web site - anchored text links. They also carry more weight when they come from a trusted site, basically a site with a good page ranking. Google considers these links as votes for your site, the more quality votes you have for your site, the better visibility you are going to obtain in the searches.
Here are a few more directories with good page rankings, all free to submit to except for the last directory:
http://www.publimix.net/submit.php High page rank directory, submissions are manually reviewed, well worth submitting.
http://www.directorydice.com High page rank directory, offer paid, reciprocal and free links. May take a while for approval and listing on the free link selection.
http://tenerifegroup.com Average page rank directory, need to navigate to the site submission link from the home page.
http://www.nicksyear.com Easy to use, quick link listing, good page rank, submission here recommended
http://www.web10.ws/ This is a paid directory that should send some traffic your way just in terms of advertising your site. They offer a few different options that will allow you to list internal pages in addition to your home page. Good for deep linking, has an excellent page ranking as well.
Be sure to keep checking back in, I will continue to post good quality directories and any other information that can help you to increase your search engine optimization efforts. If you have any ideas or sites to add, please feel free to do so.
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