The internet is filled with many directory resources. Many
of them are a complete waste of time, money and can even potentially harm the
success of your site. The search engines are constantly looking for the low
quality, sneaky efforts of site owners to advance their websites.
I once had a conversation with an ex technology executive at
IBM who is now involved with a small outside venture. We were talking about
link building strategies and he said some things that (after some extensive
research and investigation) were absolutely appalling to me. He was talking
about a black hat technique called article spinning and he was also talking
about mass directory submission.
After doing some extensive research of my own, Ive come to
learn how incredibly detrimental techniques like these can be. I learned a
valuable lesson from my interactions with this man: Age, experience and
position does not mean
Solution: Always go for quality rather than quantity. Here
is a list of the top 3 paid directories to submit your site to.
1.
www.dir.yahoo.com
The Yahoo Directory is one of the
oldest and best directories on the web. It offers high authority and valuable
links back to your site and can also drive a fair amount of traffic to your
site.
The cost to submit to this
directory is a onetime fee of $299.95.
2.
www.botw.org
Best of The Web Directory is a very
high quality and high authority directory. Directories like this are an
absolute must to submit your site to.
The fee for this directory is the
same as Yahoo…onetime fee of $299.95.
3.
www.business.com
Business.com is a very well
established and respected directory. It has been around for a very long time
and holds a great deal of weight with the search engines.
The cost of inclusion for this
directory is a onetime fee of $299.00
The benefit of submitting to directories is that you gain
increased internet exposure, back links and an increase of relevant traffic.
We encourage all of our clients to submit to these
directories in addition to www.dmoz.com and
any high authority industry specific directories.
Happy Friday and enjoy your weekend!