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Submit Your Site to Directories


Directories are important to use because search engines look to them for positioning advice. If you are well listed in all of the directories then your site is given much better listings. Team dbCanvas submits all of the sites it does to many search engines, it's still important to follow up and make sure that you're getting listed in the prominent directories. Probably the most important directory to be listed in is DMOZ. It may take some time to get listed there, but its well worth it.

Be sure to list your site in the free Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.com), overseen by human editors. This hierarchical directory provides content feeds to all the major search engines. Plus it provides a link to your site from an information hub that Google deems important.

Yahoo! Directory is another important directory to be listed in, though their search results recently haven't been featuring their own directory as prominently. Real humans will read (and too often, pare down) your 200-character sentence, so be very careful and follow their instructions (docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest). Use somewhat less than the maximum number of characters allowable, so you don't have wordy text that will tempt the Yahoo editor to begin chopping. Business sites now require a $299 annual recurring fee for Yahoo! Express to have your site considered for inclusion within seven business days.

Other directories to consider might be About.com and Business.com.


   
 
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