Jun 24th, 2007 by admin 1,775 Views
Once you create a new website, you will have to promote it as soon as possible to get it indexed by the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Msn…). This can be hard if you don’t want to spend a lot of money in promotion, at the beginning. In this case, submitting to free Web Directories, could be the best solution. Why submit to free directories? By submitting your website to free directories, you can get a lot of backlinks without spending a cent into promotion. Web Directories are usually organized through a comprehensive category structure which is very search engine friendly.
If you have some links from search engine friendly websites like directories, your site should get indexed within a few days. The more directories you submit to, the better (of course you have to make sure that you are not going to submit your site to “spammy” ones) . But what if you don’t have enough time to submit your website to hundreds of free directories and to check the quality of each of them? In this case you could use a directory submission service that will do the whole work for you at a very cheap price.
One of the best i’ve came across, is certainly Directory Maximizer which offers a fast and professional submission service. But why use a submission service ? How can I be sure that they will do a good job for my website? After a quick look at the site mentioned above, I immediately noticed some of the great features this service is offering:
- All submissions are manually submitted by our well-trained staff
- Choose from various submission options:
- Submit to all directories
- Submit to a specific number of randomly chosen directories
- Make your own list from the given directories
- Submit by PageRank- Avoid duplication of submissions previously made by sending us details of directories you have submitted to in the past.
- Our directories have been hand-picked to suit all kinds of websites irrespective of whether they target a global, city specific, industry specific or niche audience.
- Earn free submission credits with every use of our service.
- Most affordable pricing at only 14 cents per directory submission, i.e. every 100 directory submissions costs only $14
These are only a few of the features that make this submission service so professional. I would definetly pay that ridiculous amount of 0.14$/submission instead of spending many hours in front of the pc and do it myself. 
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There has been talk on the Internet about the cons of using directory submission services. Not too sure if this is true or not but I personally don’t use those free submission services as it forces you to subscribe to their newsletters..
I did not know that you are forced to subscribe to their newsletter once you use a submission service…Anyway you could always mark their newsletter as “spam” in your email filter
I’ve been using Directory Submitter (free software) for a while now and submitting my sites to 2-3 high pr directories daily. Using it can speed up the process rather than doing it manually.
thanks for the tip, even if it seems to be a “software” instead of a “submission service”
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Just FYI,
I did a whole bunch of these services..
My results were (roughly):
For every 150 submissions: received about 20 inbound links/directory listings.
If the price works for you, that’s what you should expect. And the 20 links definitely helped for SEO.
I have used this service, and submitted my site to the 600 directories on their list. I actually managed to get some 240 links over a period of 4 months, which was absolutely fine by me considering the price I paid for it.
And ya, they don’t send out newsletters. The only stuff I receive from them once in every 45-60 days is an update that tells me they have added new directories, which btw gives me the option to unsubscribe from.
Hmm, interesting service. Thanks for the tip, I’ll be off to purchase it
I my opinion - anything you can do to help you SE ranking - you should do it. And when the price is so low its an easy choice
Cheers.
All depends if it is a good service and the guarantie, is not the same the submission than the aprobation of the submission
Not a good idea because the anchor text will be the same for all your directory listings. Better to just take the time to do it yourself so you can ensure it’s a quality directory and vary your anchor text.
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