How To Submit Site To Web Directories and Build Targeted Traffic

Everywhere you turn these days you're hearing about Search Engine Optimization. It's "SEO this and SEO that" until you might start to think there is no other way to get traffic. But did you know there is a whole different world of places people go when they're looking for web sites just like yours? This is the world of web directories, the smaller and more personable cousin of search engines, where your web site is actually viewed and indexed by human eyes and not by search engine spiders. But how do you let the web directories know you exist, and which directories are worth dealing with? This Post will give a brief overview of the best directories and how you can make certain they know all about your web site.

Although many web directories supplement their listings with search engine feeds from places like Google, the primary method of getting yourself listed with a search directory is by telling them about your site, also called "submitting" your site. You can submit your site to the web directories by hand or there are software solutions to do the work for you.

If you are looking for paid and free directories, you'll check these lists to find suitable web directories for you:

http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php   

http://www.bestweb-directories.com/ 
                             
http://info.vilesilencer.com/

http://top.seo-links.org/

http://www.web-directories.ws/

http://webseodesign.com/resources/free-directory-listings.htm

http://ask-dir.com/Directories/

http://www.seocompany.ca/directory/free-web-directories.html

http://www.directorycritic.com/

Many of the smaller web directories focus on a particular niche. Just because they're small, don't rule these directories out. If you want targeted traffic who was already looking for a web site or a product just like yours, these smaller web directories are the place to find them. But on the other end of the spectrum there is an array of large web directories covering almost every topic under the sun. Probably the most well known of these large directories is actually DMOZ  which calls itself the "largest on the web" and is constructed and maintained by a "vast, global community of volunteer editors." Yahoo! Directory  is another well known web directory. Although Yahoo! is best known as a search engine, they are also a web directory where you can submit your site for listing.