Why should I submit my site to web directories?

• To get your website indexed
  
  Search engines like Google and Yahoo send out crawlers (spiders) to search the web for new sites that come up everyday. If you have a new site and you want search engines to know of its existence, then there couldn’t be an easier and better way to let a search engine know than having it find your site through links in various seo-friendly directory sites.



• One way links -> Improvement in Search Engine Rankings
  
  Most directory sites provide one way links, which is beneficial from the SEO aspect of your site. Search engines give importance to the number of inbound links to your site when ranking it for a given position during search and one way links are thought to be valued more than reciprocal links (links exchanged with other sites). Thus, directory links can help give a boost to your SEO efforts.
  
  
• Targeting specific keywords / phrases
  
  Most directories allow you to provide a link with keywords describing your site. It’s not easy getting links to your site with the keywords you want and web directory sites serve as the easiest medium for getting such links. Getting links with targeted keywords / phrases can have search engines favouring your site over others when ranking for the given terms.
  
  
• Traffic (not such a benefit with most directories)
  
  There aren’t many web directory sites that could boast of providing your site with traffic that would number in the hundreds per day but there are a few directories that are known to give some traffic (albeit very little) to sites in certain categories.
  
  
• Most web directory sites are free to submit to
  
  Given the benefits and most web directory sites being free to submit to, it makes business sense to having your site listed in as many SEO friendly directories as possible. After all, you don’t lose anything for doing so.

Submitting to web directory sites can be a time-consuming process though and finding the right web directory sites to submit can take quite a bit of effort. To save yourself the trouble, you may use a manual directory submission service like ours to get your site submitted to all the top quality SEO friendly directories out there. We have a sizeable team of directory submitters who are well-trained in submitting to web directories.