One of the important concepts in SEO is to get as many inbound (backlink) links to your site as possible. This is also called the Off-Page Optimization (You can also read here on my post on how to do the On-Page Optimization). Most often, the off-page optimization is the most difficult part to handle with, since it is difficult to ask someone to put a back link on a page that does not belong to yours.
One of the common way to get back links to your site is to submit your sites to various web directories (or blog directories too if you are using blog). I too operate a web directory where it is FREE to get listed. With that said, many of these directories have both a high Page Rank AND are old websites, giving them more authority and power in the search engines.
Not only that, but there are literally thousands of website directories on the internet that are absolutely free for you to submit your website to! While it does take time to find these directories and then manually fill out all of the required criteria to submit your website, it is an excellent way to help increase your search engine rankings.
However, since this kind of submissions is done manually and one-by-one, it is very tiresome and time-consuming. There are some good website directory submission software products on the market. The best of which is a product called Directory Submitter created by Brad Callen. Essentially you simply enter your website details into the software program 1 time, and then click on any of the 1600+ website directories in the software and it will automatically fill in all of the submission criteria for you. Click the submit button and then your site has been instantly added to the website directory.
So, not only does it save you time in finding all of these directories, BUT it saves you an incredible amount of time filling out each and every website's submission criteria.
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I tried to submit my site but each time i got this message
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How do you spell 'Jabie' backwards
I simply write JabieWhat iis the problem ?thanks in advance30th July 2007 4:51am