Web directories and SEO

Submitting your site to web directories is a great way to boost your website’s visibility. Mostly, you need submit your links manually to directories. Then a human reviewer will visit your site and make a decision whether your site is accepted or not depending on what they think of your site. This makes web directories is more trustable because they are human edited.

Once your site has been approved and included by “trustable” web directories, search engines may consider your site more valuable while ranking your site. So, what benefits can you obtain from web directories?

Indexed by the search engines quickly
The search engine crawlers usually start their crawling information from web directories because those links are already validated. For those new launched search engines, they will automatically start their crawling from directories as well. Therefore, if your site is included in web directories, it will save you lots of time in submitting your sites to different search engines and will be indexed by the search engines quickly.

Bring you more targeted traffic
“How many incoming/inbound links you have from external websites, and how well do those websites rank on various search engines?” is one of the most important factor while search engines ranking your site. Many people go to web directories directly because it is easier for them to find the right links under the right categories. It can bring lots of direct traffic from directories because people click your link under the correct category. In addition, all the major web directories are well-ranked on search engines which means they can bring extra traffic from SERPs.

Get one-way links easily
Search engines prefer one-way inbound links rather than link-exchange tactics. You can get one-way inbound links easily from the web directories because they don’t expect you to put their links on your site.

Choice of anchor text
Most web directories allow you to enter a site title when you submit your site. This naturally generates a SEO anchor text for you and this is helpful for your rankings as well.

Lili
SEO Programmer