What is the advantage of submitting to directories?

[jimmycorlas]

To the SEO scenario, I am relatively new. I am really afraid of getting scammed as I am quite new to this and that is a scary thought. To make money, I feel that there are many people who just wish to con webmasters. With directories too, is this the situation? Talking about the importance of article submission and directory submission, I have come across some articles. Articles could enhance web traffic and SERPs too if they are relevant and belong to the same niche. Do you think that this is correct? According to you, are there any major costs involved here?

[vstrategy]

A good quality of your article is a point for your website. Yes the article submission can help a lot to rank your website. Especially if your site is relevant to your site and consider the article directory is do-follow

[YooHee]

it depends, there are directories are just a waste of time and effort and there are directories that are worth posting....

[Kyrie]

there are somehow benefits, like it can help your website pages can be crawl and index faster..

[ursimrankhanna]

Hi,

yeah submit in directories like dmoz, yahoo that will more useful in search engine.

[Alicewu1207]

But a lot of directory sites take a long time to validate or need money.

[mrac]

Some well-managed directories give points towards sites, choose those human-moderated directories that ensure quality of submissions.

[mactilden]

There are several advantages of submitting to directories in all these there are so many things which is great to know about it. I like it can help your website pages can be crawl and index faster.

[jack81]

Hi Jimmy,

One of the main advantages of submitting to directories is that you earn a link back to your site. This backlink can drive more visitors to your site, help your page rank higher and increase the crawl rate (as everytime GoogleBot visits this directory your page gets crawled)

Most importantly don't forget to use your keywords in the title, description etc...

More similar SEO tips can be found at http://www.elite-web.co.uk/news/

Good Luck in SEO

[mdamin76]

Directories can give backlinks to your site. It's up to you to decide.

[sam.mathue]

A good quality of article is point of view. If your article is good written then it have more number of views and the value of your link get increased automatically.

[Justinpage]

Directory submission is the very basic of SEO among other submission methods. This method is very important because it helps your site to become more visible to search engines because by posting in different directory submission sites, you are spreading your site all over the internet.

[Click SSL]

Directory can generate good traffic to your website as well as visibility faster in Search Engines.

[doreengonzales]

Actually, at some point directories helps in getting backlinks and traffic, but i don't think using directories it would improve your site ranking since it takes time to approve your content post. It would be better if you will use other SEO techniques to improve your site very well.

[Rick Mutajer]

Here are some answers to this question
1. To get your website indexed
2. One way links -> Improvement in Search Engine Rankings
3. Targeting specific keywords / phrases
4. Increase of Traffic