Comments on: Importance of submitting to Web Directories

By: Jayson

Jayson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:02:51 +0000

All good reasons John and we’ve been doing it. I hear that it’s the end of directories but the good ones are still good and still work. It’s probably the end to directories that are crap. Who wants a crap directory anyway?

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:04:48 +0000

Hi Chris - Yep your right, I could do with revisiting this post!!

By: Chris Heath

Chris Heath — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:20:24 +0000

With reference to “the quality of paid ones is much higher” perhaps is a tad outdated following Google’s paid directory massacre last September.

By: Andy Major

Andy Major — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:02:31 +0000

Many thanks for the important information given. Extending keyword space and making the blog appear seamless to the search engines seems to be the right architecture for both web design itself and SEO in particular.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:41:10 +0000

Hi John, thanks for the lists. I for one will certainly add the relevant services to my current list, that Wordpress automatically pings I submit a post. Cheers, Gary.

By: John Sylvester

John Sylvester — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:56:18 +0000

You may well be interested in the submissions listings. Not all of these will now be live as this page was put on the site nearly a year ago but the blog/rss has in many cases tripled, even in some cases, quintupled traffic, Technorati and Ping-O-Matic especially important.

http://www.v9designbuild.com/rss-submissions.html

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:47:05 +0000

Hi John, Thanks a very well thought through comment. For all the reasons you mention have been recommending blogs to my clients for some time now. For example: Employment Law Blog

By: John Sylvester

John Sylvester — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:57:53 +0000

Extending the argument, an on-site WordPress blog will allow you to extend your keyword space and submissions to both blogs and RSS directories.

WordPress can be added to an existing website as a seamless addition. The benefits of using WordPress are:
- It has a variety of free plug-in themes to define the look and feel;
- The software writes each article into an RSS file, which allows the major feeds to publish it each time an article is added;
- It can be seamlessly integrated into the site, adding content and therefore boosting PR values;
- Choosing a relevant keyword for the directory name will also help relevance in ‘outbound links’ thereby increasing a site’s visibility;
- Using the Technorati plug-in, keywords are tagged on that site for blog searches;
- Website owners can make money from running ads from Google Adsense at circa 75% of the click-through value
- Small companies can now be offered templated but effective Content Management Systems (CMS) solutions through WordPress, either as an add-on or the site itself.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:16:14 +0000

You many also consider the Alexa ranking of the directories before seriously submitting your site.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:43:40 +0000

Yep, good point - thanks.