If you are a webmaster, you will know the importance of backlinks. Backlinks are important because they help your site to rank on the search engine. If your site is new, it won't have any backlink. To get traffic from the search engine, your site must have backlinks. There are many ways to get backlinks to your site including directory submission, social bookmarking and article directory submission.
Directory submission is the easiest way to get thousands of backlinks to your site. In order to get your site approved, you must follow the submission guidelines. The submission guidelines contain a list of guidelines for webmaster to follow when they submit their site to the directory. The submission guideline of each directory is different.
You should use a few variations of title and description when submitting to the directory. You should vary the title and description for every 100 directories. The more variation you create, the higher the quality of the backlink will be. The description should contain 2 3 sentences. The description should not be too long. The directory has set limitation regarding the length of the description. Normally, the limit for the title and description length is shown at the bottom of the fields. As you type in the description, you will notice that the number keeps on decreasing. Once the numerical value becomes 0, you have reach the limit of the description length. You should include keywords in the directory submission. The keywords will be used to rank your website in the directory search result.
It is not necessary to submit to all the directories. You should only submit to the directories that have pagerank 3 and above. If you submit to directories without pagerank, your site will not rank higher in the search engine. It will have no effect in your search engine ranking. Since they cannot help you to increase your ranking, you should not submit to them. You should also avoid directories that have similar IP address. If you submit to directories that have similar IP address, your site will get banned. Directories with similar IP address are considered spam. They are hosted on the same server so they have the same C Class IP. In order to get your listing indexed, you must submit to directories that have different C Class IP.
Some directories will require you to provide a reciprocal link. The different between a regular listing and a reciprocal listing is that the regular listing will only last for a short time while the reciprocal listing will last permanently as long as you link back to the site. If you choose the reciprocal listing option, make sure you don't link back to too many directories. Generally, you should not have more than 5 reciprocal linking to the directory. If you don't want to link back to the directory, you can skip it.
It is very exhausting to perform the directory submission. To have more free time, you can hire a SEO Company to perform the directory submission. The SEO Company are experienced in submitting websites to the directories.
