Places To Submit Your Website

[Funny Business Cartoons]

As the Title suggests......(enjoy)

Name of Directory: DMOZ
Site Address: http://www.dmoz.org
Description:
Requirements: Free listing

Name of Site: Search Europe
Site Address: http://www.searcheurope.com
Description:
Requirements: Free listing/ Europe only

Name of Site: Great British Pages
Site Address: http://www.great-british-pages.co.uk
Description:
Requirements: Free listing/ UK only

Name of Site: Spot Jockey
Site Address: http://www.spotjockey.com
Description:
Requirements: Free listing

Name of Site: Search Sight
Site Address: http://www.searchsight.com
Description:
Requirements: Free listing

Name of Site: jayde
Site Address: http://www.jayde.com
Description: B2B Search Engine
Requirements:

Name of Site:
Site Address: http://www.dreamsubmit.net
Description: lists with 35 search engines FREE
Requirements:

Name of Site: UKShopTillUDrop
Site Address: http://www.ukshoptilludrop.co.uk/default.aspx
Description:
Requirements: PayPal

Name of Site:
Site Address: http://www.freeindex.co.uk
Description: free uk business directory
Requirements: you can enhance and receive a link to your webpage if you pop a link on your from there site

Name of Site: ecademy
Site Address: http://www.ecademy.com/
Description: Connection business people
Requirements: Free package but also there is a chance to upgrade

These are all free listing sites with no link back requirements.

www.smilelocal.com
www.askyourneighbour.co. uk
www.mylocalservices.co.u k
www.uksmallbusinessdirec tory.co.uk
www.hotfroguk.co.uk
www.thelocalweb.net
www.thomsonlocal.com
www.touchLocal.com
www.businessclassified.c o.uk
www.yell.com
www.smilelocal.com
www.ufindus.com

These are a little more specialised but may be useful:
www.therapytreatments.co m
www.healers.co.uk

Name of Site: link referal
Site Address: http://www.linkreferral.com/adwel.pl
Description: general directory to direct traffic to your site
Requirements: you have to review others site and - hope - they review you

Name of Site: UK Shop Index
Site Address: http://http://www.uk-shop-index.co.uk/
Description: Guide to shopping Online
Requirements: 1.Your store must be well designed, professional looking and fast.
2. If your store has credit card transactions it must be secure ie, using a secure server.
3. Before we list your site we will check your site and expect our banner or text link to appear there.

Name of Site: Submit Express
Site Address: http://www.submitexpress.com/
Description: Submits Plus free tools
Requirements: Dont think any as I only used the free tools

Name of Site:
Site Address: http://www.vivastreet.co.uk
Description: listing for events goods and services as many entries as you want
Requirements: free but you can upgrade

Name of Site: qype
Site Address: http://qype.co.uk
Description: listing site like face book
Requirements: business address

Name of Site: Gumtree
Site Address: http://www.gumtree.com
Description: Classifieds, free advertising, services, products etc
Worldwide
Requirements: Advertising in classifieds is free as long as you dont make it obvious you are a business, and if you want to advertise in the business services it is from £4.95 i think. I usually get quite a few enquiries through advertising here.

One for ladies only, sorry guys !

http://www.onewomanbusiness.co.uk/

Name of Site: selboy.com
Site Address: http://www.selboy.com/forum/
Description: Free advertising.
Requirements:None you can just send him an email to advertise your site, or you can join the forums. Its up to you

Name of Site: wwwi
Site Address: http://www.wwwi.co.uk/
Description: web directory
Requirements: None, submit your site and wait ( a few weeks) its human edited so can take a while but worth it as they are enjoying good ranking at present.

 

[elainedon]

Wow! Thank you for the list! Till date I'd known about only dmoz and jayde! :redface:

 

[ruthxxx]

Thanks so much for your time and effort, really useful!

 

[Gilesfuchs]

So why should you even consider submitting your site to the directories, especially when not many people use them any more?

 

[Funny Business Cartoons]

http://www.directorymaximizer.com/why-submit-directories.php

 

[ecenica]

Good list.

We recommend all our web hosting customers to submit their site to Google using Google's free Google Webmaster Tools.

We then recommend submitting your site to Bing using their free Bing Webmaster Tools

Richard

 

[loudBANG design]

thats great, one of the most annoying things about adding your domain to free indexes is when you have to spend 5-10 minutes going through the set up and then at the end of it you find out you have to pur their ugly logo on your page. Not ideal for a freelance designer.

you have saved us a lot of time.

 

[AshleyWhiteBusiness]

Some are local directories which are great to submit local businesses to.

 

[maxh]

Here is a good list in terms of ranking signals

http://searchengineland.com/top-50-citation-sources-for-uk-us-local-businesses-104938

 

[Nyagoslav]

This is a really awesome list, but you should not mistake business directories with website directories. Some of the directories that you've listed are website directories, and their value (unless they are niche directories, which they aren't) is very low.

The business directories are mostly for you to list your business, not your website. If you do not have a brick n' mortar business "attached" to your website it might prove difficult to get a listing on some of these.

Greetings,
Nyagoslav
OptiLocal

 

[Cobby]

Obviously you have to get your business website 'out there' but directory websites are one of the most annoying things to wade through when searching for something on the internet - it's like playing pass the parcel, only instead of tearing off paper you're wading through dodgy looking websites that offer a (usually incomplete) summary of the business you are looking for.

 

[Nyagoslav]

Obviously you have to get your business website 'out there' but directory websites are one of the most annoying things to wade through when searching for something on the internet - it's like playing pass the parcel, only instead of tearing off paper you're wading through dodgy looking websites that offer a (usually incomplete) summary of the business you are looking for.

I didn't even know someone is using the generic website directories for anything else except to get a 0 authority link from there. It has been like this for some time now, and you mentioned one of the main reasons for that.

 

[Websitehandyman]

Anyone mentioned submitterbot.com

To be honest do know what good it does with basic directories. If you just want back links the are plenty of ways to get them free.

 

[LewisIngram]

Thanks for sharing. Most of them i already know but some are new and useful for me
[FONT=&quot]Cheers,
Lewis [/FONT]

 

[Iranda]

Thankyou for this information...

 

[ZeekSuccess]

Great post, will start using today

 

[RevaxMedia]

Pretty good list, I am sure most people will find that beneficial.

 

[bdw]

Till date I'd known about only dmoz and jayde!

Unfortunately that is because the rest are really of little importance and have not been for about three years.

I wouldn't necessarily assume that we're devaluing Yahoo's links, I just think it's not one of the things we really need to recommend. If people think that a directory is going to bring them lots of visitors (I had a visitor from the DMOZ once), then it's obviously fine to get listed there. It's not something that people have to do though .

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/018387.html

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[Harrisk11]

I was looking for sites like that for business listing.. Some are really useful for me...

 

[plymgary]

On a similar note I find this really useful for info on where to submit articles.

 

[eventdomain]

Google Drops Yahoo & ODP Directory from Guidelines

This was going to happen - you know it! The ODP's and Yahoo's dir offering was not specialised advert placement - thus both dirs are only general tools with little traffic flow being able to actually convert.

A few years back on another forum, I made a prediction on the directory industry, and that was that the all-purpose directories will cease to exist, and the new breed of niche search tools will emerge and replace the unworkable general old directories that remain.

Google is about related weblinks/content, and since the all-purpose dir model got 'slapped', wasnt this always on the cards - a good ole fashioned clean-up was needed for a long time, and maybe this is the start of things to come. If it is, imagine all those millions of directory client links, suddenly being made worthless eg: directory A has say 5000 clients, now those links wont show up in search results, or at least be deemed unworthy as they linked within unrelated resources.

This means, that thousands of websites will have to re-build at least hundreds of lost dir weblinks.

The off-site SEO game will be hit hard!

 

[Charity Calls]

Thanks, very useful !!

 

[iArtist]

Of this list the ones I use and reccomend as having value would be:

Freeindex
Vivastreet
Searchsight

 

[johnmce]

That dream submit . net looks a bit spammy to me. This kind of bulk directory submission does still help your rankings to some extent but they're charging 200 USD/ year for it which is too much

 

[DJs-Only]

Do searches for things like:

Link Submission "keyword"
URL Directory "keyword"
Website List "keyword"

Download the MozBAR off SEOMoz, or check out the sites metrics on OpenSiteExplorer and away you go. Good results can be made from lots of low value websites, but try to put more importance on the bigger 1's, but remember although a site with better Domain Authority will probably pass more link juice, the more links on the page you are submitting to, the more that potential link juice is diluted across the sites. Less links = more link link juice for you.

Same thing can be done for blog/forums etc;

"Keyword" guest post
"Keyword" blog
"Keyword" blogger
"Keyword" guest writer

Try and mix it up. Directories are great but variety is best. A continue steady growth is a plus in G's eyes too. 10 a day would be better than 20 on Monday, and 20 the next Monday.

 

[The Web Guy]

Some directories will return a spamfest on any email address you provide.
I would stick with the top three!

 

[Questions&Questions]

Great read, thanks for posting!

 

[D4ch0l]

So why should you even consider submitting your site to the directories, especially when not many people use them any more?

That is for search engines. More backlinks you have, higher in google search and other serach engines your website appears.

Adam

 

[EZRShelving]

Thanks for the post, more things to add to the 'to-do' list!

 

[popunder]

... all-purpose directories will cease to exist, and the new breed of niche search tools will emerge and replace the unworkable general old directories that remain.

If Google ignored name-and-address-listing directories it would massively clean up the search results for local business searches. Hopefully they would distinguish between these (Yell, Accessplace, ThomsonLocal, 192) and the content-rich sites like Freeindex, Qype and Thebestof which tend to have full pages of information and/or reviews about each business.

 

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[Websitehandyman]

Well I can see two reason why not sorry;

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[Nuno]

Well I can see two reason why not sorry;

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Chortle, guffaw.

 

[zigojacko]

http://www.directorymaximizer.com/why-submit-directories.php

There is no credibility behind the source of that article at all. The company itself creates software to automate directory submission. Spam blasting essentially.

That said however, there are some decent sources in your list, most are worthless though. The key is identifying generic / low quality or unethical directories from legitimate places to list your business that Google will value as a citation source.

 

[zigojacko]

Ah flippin' spammer bumping an ancient thread back to the top! Fall for it every time!

 

[pickaweb]

I am not totally convinced by that list.
DMOZ great.
I would recommend checking the videos of Matt Cutts from Google as there has been lots of recent changes lately. What worked before does not work now.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp/videos?sort=dd&view=0&flow=grid
All the best.