While directories are not as beneficial as they used to be they are still a good foundation for link building campaigns. Below is list of the top 10 SEO friendly directories that pass on PageRank to your site, thereby increasing your PR.
1. Librarians’ Internet Index (PR9)- A very high-quality free link, but very difficult to get. Websites must go through a thorough review and must contain alot of informative content.
2. DMOZ (PR8)- The Open Directory Project is a great authority link and its free. Unfortunately it can take up to a year to be indexed depending on the editor for the category you are submitting to. Don’t keep resubmitting your site, it only puts you at the end of the line.
3. Yahoo Directory (PR8)- Another great authority link if your site is not commercial inclusion is free but can be slow. Commercial listings are $299 a year.
4. Business.com (PR7)- Great link for business sites submission cost $299 a year make sure to get the standard listing not the PPC which is a redirected link.
5. Best of the Web (PR7)- Free link for non-commercial sites. Otherwise its $69.95 a year or $199.95 for a permanent link. Many of BOTW’s category pages have high Google Page Rank without that many outgoing links making this a solid backlink.
6. JoeAnt.com (PR6)- $39.99 one-time fee, free for editors guaranteed review within two business days.
7. The Hot VS. Not Directory (PR6)- High Page rank directory $60 for a year $200 for a permanent link.
8. Directory World (PR5)- Professional web directory for 24.95 annually.
9. GoGuides (PR5)- Websites are instantly included $69.95 per site.
10. Rubber Stamped (PR4)- Solid link from an up and coming directory $29.95 one time review fee.
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I tried to submit my sites at DMOZ and LII long time ago. I don’t know what happened since then. Feels like its really hard to be accepted on those particular directories. But once your site is accepted and listed, the authority of those listings will be seen by big G and other serps as well, thus, making your site more SE friendly.
Ron Leyba
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Useful information! I just use two of them,but this time I know the other eight directories. Thank for sharing !
I have entered the field of seo just for two months,I must learn much things about it,the above listed tips give me much useful advice,wonderful and great!
Great ! Nice post. Thx for share
@Olina @Jessicap @Nadene @Belajar – I am glad that we were able to be a help to you by providing this information.
Thanks for the great list. I can’t figure out how to submit a free site to Yahoo! I can only get to the $299. Also, I submitted to DMOZ a while back and can’t seem to get listed. I’ll check out the other sites.
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Great post, thanks
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@christopher with Yahoo free or paid is determined by yahoo depending on the category. If its a commercial category they will require payment but if its in a blogging or personal category it should be free. -will
@Christopher,
After you submit your site to DMOZ, it might take years to be accepted and sometimes, not to be accepted on their listings.
For Yahoo, I think there is no free submission for their directory, only the paid one.
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I think these days people have less of a problem paying for links, but when you are, make sure that it really is well worth it. In fact, it may be better to give your money to a high pr website in your niche than a directory.
This is EXACTLY what i was looking for the other day! Thanks for the great post
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directories are useful if you know how to use it.
but often it takes long time to be approved.
Such as DMOZ, sometimes, it takes about three months.
i do not have such patience to wait for it.
directories are useful if you know how to use it.
but often it takes long time to be approved.
Nice post! Thanks for your sharing,
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Good list here.
I have not had much luck with getting the majority of my sites into DMOZ.
Initially I submitted a site to Yahoo and I notices an immediate jump in SERPS, however at the end of the year I did not renew and I did not notice any drop in traffic so not going to bother with it again.
@Mary I agree with you on the high PR site in your niche. For instance for loan site I like to use financial blogs which are high PR and rank well for loan keywords. -will
DMOZ takes aaaaggggggeeees to get listed. But it’s worth the wait.
To new blog owners. Good luck with this site. It has lots of potential.
May I suggest that in your RSS feed you include the title of post. When I receive posts by email, the subject line simply says: Masters of SEO.
Great post btw
Regards
Sol
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Actually the word has been (for quite some time now) that DMOZ just ain’t all that no more…sorry.
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@solreka thanks for the encouragement and insight on the RSS feed. @Dennis I disagree SEO’s turned bloggers make sensational statements to drive traffic, and wannabes parrot that all over the internet. Me and Don are SEO’s for a living bloggers on the side we don’t make statements that we haven’t proved out. We work for large corporations that primarily care about two things traffic and how that traffics converting. When your not getting traffic you tweak seo items and analyse then tweak some more based on mathematically informed decisions. If your lacking conversions you tweak colors and images and structure, and copy and analyse till the conversions are right.
Dmoz may be less valuable than before but it still is a high PR, authority site, and I have seen directory links make a difference. -will
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@Will
That was great words and insights. About the tweaking thing of your site when you are not getting the right conversions and traffic, that is where I am now. I come to a point that it pays to pay attention to what you have right now and tweak it for a bit to see if it helps in terms of your site performance around the web.
About the DMOZ link or submission, its only “Submit and Forget” for me.
Ron Leyba
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Thanks for this list. Directories, however, have a new use for website owners, especially those who are SEO conscious.
i am hearing about joeant.com for the first time. Thanks for sharing.
Great list, thanks. Out of curiosity, in your opinion, will directories with paid inclusion be devalued by Google as they are, in effect, paid links?
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Should I post to forums with high index page but the actual page for putting links has no PR at all? Will google still consider this as a boost to my PR?
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Will/Don,
This is great stuff. I could never keep up with the SEO stuff, so I try to find other ways of getting traffic like guest posting on high-traffic blog, etc. But I like how you make it simple.
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Stay away from those web design agencies that submit websites automatically in web directories. This SEO technique is useless.
First time I have heard of Librarian , will check out the free ones
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Great post. I’ll definitely be checking out these directories as soon as I press the submit button!
Directory submission is a crucial aspect in SEO services. I prefer the paid one than the free one.
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nice list, thanks – I believe submitting to a few high quality directories can be central to a link building strrategy. Especiallydoing everything you can to get into dmoz
Submitting to directories is a great way to build links and increase your search engine rankings.
The important factor in directory submission is making sure you use the correct title.
There are various different methods of site online marketing and one of the useful methods of online promotion is directory submission. Directory submission is not only a critical link building method for your website or blog, it also sends you the visitors which no website can do without.
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Is there any companies that I can hire to submit my site to top directories…
For my use, I recommend Yahoo directory. It works for me better.
Yahoo! is a directory, NOT a search engine that sends out spiders to cruise the Web.
The Yahoo directory quickly gained popularity as the hot spot for finding useful Web sites.
They are useful,thanks a lot.
Many thanks.
Awesome list but i have had issues with DMOZ. I will try to get int the others too.
Why is Yahoo charging so much, I have looked at it and cant see where your money goes, anyone used it with success?
Dave
Why is Yahoo charging so much, I have looked at it and cant see where your money goes, anyone used it with success?
How many do you have to be listed in to make a big difference?
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I noticed that there are lots of internet visitors is having trouble submitting in DMOZ.
Useful resources, from the list am only familiar with two directories, i will try others may be i may be fortunate to get accepted, however, do you think Yahoo directory worth it?
It costs $300 a year for directory listing in Yahoo.
Guest blogging is another excellent way to increase your traffic.
DMOZ is no good from my experience and I’ve used most of the others in the list with success in terms of SEO. Thanks for the read!
Is the Yahoo $300 worth it?
To this day I can not really get a definitive answer with any real conviction.
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