My Studies on Web Directories
San Marcos, California

Everything I wanted to know about Web Directories... You might be afraid to ask!

 

Submitting websites to Web directories seems to be a rapidly growing trend among website owners. Many still seem to question why anyone would even bother submitting their website to a directory understanding most of the website traffic comes directly from the search engines. Well although this is absolutely true, all web traffic seems to be welcome on most websites. By adding your website to a web directory you are increasing your chances of targeting new potential visitors by approximately 20% or so. By adding that approximate 20% to your existing viewers your website can be blown off the charts by new visitors.

Ranking a website is done by popularity, what better way to increase your popularity than advertising to the prospective viewers that everyone else has forgotten about or even neglected to include! The more links that you can get to your website the greater the increase in the number pf viewers that will find it. That is a plus, especially if your rankings are important to you.

To increase your links and rankings, a web optimizer must add your site to web directories, which is the extremely easy. The more people that see your website and use your links the more traffic you are generating. Thus, adding popularity and following that is…. Higher rankings!

In order for a web directory to work appropriately for your website you will need to be sure that you are submitting pages that you have already submitted to other search engines. If your submission doesn’t show up in a search engine it will be harder, if not impossible for a visitor to find you. A submission to only directories will actually be pointless unless you also submit the same content to the search engines. These two should go hand in hand.

Be careful and watch for Google Adwords. These are excellent indicators to the way your website is categorized within the search engine. Try to have your hyperlinks mimic those of Google ads, this can add to your search engine rankings and also your listings in the different directories.