7 Day to website success - Day 1 (3)

Steps You Can Take Today to Get Listed in Web Directories:

1.  Write a website title – Generally speaking the title you use should be the title of your website. The title should include the primary keyword(s) you want to rank well for on the search engines. You should also include a value statement that will  increase the likelihood that humans will want to click on your website. So, for  example, if you want to rank well for the term “magazine subscriptions”, you might consider a title such as, “Magazine Subscriptions for Less”.

2.  Write a site description – This description needs to be short, and that means 15-25 words or so. It needs to be short enough that someone who is quickly scanning the directory results can easily understand why your site is relevant to them. Don’t get complex, but build off your value statement you created in the title. So, for the magazine subscription example you might say, “Get instant discounts up to 50% off the cover price of your favorite magazines and periodicals.”
3.  Visit www.profitchoice.com/webdir – List your website in ProfitChoice’s web directory. Our Directory is scanned by the “Big Three” regularly, so your site will be picked up pretty quickly. You can also upgrade your listing on our site to make sure it gets listed at the top of its category. Listings at the top of the category pages generally receive a higher benefit than those further down.
4.  Submit your site to other directories – The Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) is generally regarded as the single most important directory on the Internet. However, because of its popularity it can take months or even years to get listed. Because of that delay, you should submit your site (you can do it here: www.dmoz.org/add.html) and then move on to other directories that are more likely to list your site quickly. Over time, I have gone through the grueling effort of developing a list of directories that tend to list sites quickly. Following are 15 that I always start off with:

•  Amfibi - http://addurl.amfibi.com
•  BigFinder - http://www.bigfinder.com/submit/
•  Burf - http://www.burf.com/submit.php
•  ExactSeek - http://www.exactseek.com/add.html
•  Graymule Search - http://www.graymule.com/
•  Mostpopularsites - http://www.mostpopularsites.net/

•  MyIdeaz - http://www.myideaz.com/addurl.php
•  SearchSight - http://searchsight.com/submit.htm
•  SplatSearch - http://www.splatsearch.com/submit.html
•  StopDog - http://www.stopdog.com/add_a_page.htm
•  Subjex - http://www.subjex.net/submit_url.html
•  Tsection - http://www.tsection.com/
•  TowerSearch - http://www.towersearch.com/addurl.php
•  TYGO.com - http://www.tygo.com/websites/FreeSubmitURL.aspx
•  Web Development Community - http://webdevcom.net/

If you do not have enough time to do the submissions yourself, ProfitChoice offers a directory submission service. Packages start from $37.50 for 50 directories and range up to $175 for 250 directories. You can get additional information on the directory submission service at www.profitchoice.com/products/web_directory_submissions.php.

Hopefully by now you realize the importance of listing your website with Web Directories. There are far more directories out there on the Internet, and some are focused just on your industry. I have found that submitting my sites to directories is a somewhat tedious process, but it is also very rewarding when I find a quality directory that takes my submissions.