Directory submission is the process to submit a page or a website to several different online directories, for example, Google directory. The advantage of directory submission is to expose a website to potential visitors.
There are two ways of directory submission: automatic directory submission or manual directory submission. Automatic directory submission involves downloading a software that will automatically post the website to multiple directories quickly. This way will save much time, and usually are much cheaper in comparison with manual submission. The disadvantages of automatic submission are that they are usually having poorer quality than manual submission, and much less likely to be ranked and indexed. The software’s are also unreliable. Many important directories being bypassed.
Manual directory submission is visiting each directory one by one, and submitting your page, or website manually, repeatedly. The directory entries will be of much higher quality and have a greater result of being accepted and indexed. The other advantage is that you will have more control about which directories to submit into. This way, you are able to target any potential niches.
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Interesting article. I can see the value of using a manual service to do this as it’s very time consuming. But does Google still value links from Directories as much as they used to?
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Thanks, Great post! Your title Useful Tools for Directory Owners was interesting. Found it today while searching for Directory Submission in Google……
manual directory submission is best.
Good points about manual submissions. Automated software are often bad at rotating titles / descriptions. They are worse at choosing categories and wouldn’t work with captcha enabled directories.
Another thing that automated software are not good at is determining whether a directory is free. They often turn paid after a couple of months of operation and softwares just don’t have the intelligence. Most software I have seen would only work with phpld / esyndicate and other popular directory scripts but fail miserably when they come across custom scripts.
Nice article, thanks. Submissions done manually to web directories have higher chance of acceptance when we select the right category matching the website contents. Manual Directory Submission can give you better results because you can rotate the anchor text and description, so that your backlinks would appear natural.