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Directory Submission is a process that plays a vital role in website or search engine optimization. Directory Submission is a process of selecting a website and then adding it to the other. Internet is full of thousands of directories, that may be a Free directory, Paid directory , Manual directory or an Automatic directory. Basically a directory on internet that is a web directory is a website that offers a very vast lost of other websites, services and products around the world. We are familiar with telephone directories and a web directory is similar to it but on the internet.
IMPORTANCE OF DIRECTORY SUBMISSION
Everyone wants to know that why it is important to list in a web directory. The benefit of having your website listed in a web directory is much like having your product or service listed in a telephone directory. If your are running a business and people are not aware that you have one, how can you make money ? It is very important that people know your business and that could be done when you list your company in the web directories. Having your website listed in a web directory gives an internet user more chance of stumbling across your website when looking for something in particular.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Directory submission is a process of submitting your website details to a web directory that are available on the internet. We can easily get a list of web directories on Google or any search engines with a key word "DIRECTORIES". The person who would be submitting the site on the directory will have to provide details of the site he/she is submitting. Generally while posting to any directory the details required are:
"Website URL
"Website Title
"Website Category
"Website Description
"Name
"Email
Sometimes, some directories may ask for additional information that could be keywords, or meta tags or a reciprocal link so that their web link could also be placed on the submitter"s website and thus make an interlink.
Keywords are words that are associated with your directory submission. This means when a person searches Search Engine Optimization for example, and you have attached that keyword along with your site, then the search results will show your site as potential result for those keywords. Keywords play a very important role in most of the web directories as they hold details of thousands of company"s and searching by keywords is a very quicker way for a user to find what they are looking for.
Acceptance of a Listing
Once your website has been submitted to a web directory, it is then up to the owner of that website whether to approve your directory submission or not. Generally they look at : whether the website is relevant to the category it has been submitted in, whether the website has good content, whether the website is complete and not still under construction. If your website matches all 3 of those criteria's you will almost certainly be accepted. Few directories take less time to show your websites as listed some might take 6 months to get it listed for a FREE LISTING. For the Paid directories, they take less time to show your listing depending upon the time frame mentioned while the payment is done.
Back Links
When a webmaster accepts your site for inclusion into his/hers web directory, you normally get an email, but not all web directories do this. Again once included, your site should then be visible to the search engines and will register as a back link for that site. A back link is a website linking to another website. Back links are important to a websites success. The more of these you have the more chance people have of finding your product/service and the more chance you have of making sales in the online world. Directory submission is a fantastic way to achieve this. This is due to the shear amount of directories online and the amount of links that they can generate towards another website.
