Top 10 Directories for SEO
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.
24 Responses
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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@Olina @Jessicap @Nadene @Belajar – I am glad that we were able to be a help to you by providing this information.
@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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@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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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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First time I have heard of Librarian , will check out the free ones
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Awesome list but i have had issues with DMOZ. I will try to get int the others too.
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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Udaya – I know the directory is still going, I’m asking if it is actually worth it.
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Nice list – despite all the noises from the SEO world to the contrary I do think that directories have some value but you really have to take your time and choose the right one for your business.
awesome list of high PR directories. Very informative. thanks for sharing.
I use Dmoz directory! I will try submitting my site in other directories too!!!
This are real top 10 directories, I am not all that used to directories, but I ca cunt about 5 that I know very well. Lots of question has been ask whether yahoo Directory worth the $300?
Good Research….Well backlinking is the most important strategy for a successful blogger. But I think going for paid methods is not what real blogging is. There are other methods like
Commenting, Interlinking
Links exchange , Banner exchange and most importantly Social bookmarking websites which can lead you up in Google. Just we need to work and wait for our time. Cheers
I think a lot of people are fed up with endlessly waiting for DMOZ to list their sites, so there several good alternatives on this list. Thanks!
Thank for info!
all good but if ound it hard to get on dmoz
Danny
another useful list thanks