By: Rick Skew
Submitted: 2012-01-26 16:14:35 | Word Count: 675
An important first step in marketing your website is obviously gaining backlinks from other websites. You will find a large amount of approaches in doing this including article sites, forum signatures and also web directories. A web directory submission is one of the better ways to gain backlinks to your site. It is certainly a very valuable and powerful tool when you are trying to promote your new website, this is even more important for websites that generally rely on search engines to increase the amount of visitors to the web site.
Finding and selecting the directory that is best suited for your needs is rarely easy. You will probably come across} free directories along with paid ones. Although all directories share a common purpose, working out the aim of the directories is never the same for free ones and the paid ones. That is because featured directories offer a lot of advantages over the free directories.
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Why are paid directory submissions superior:
Free directories are normally the objective of spammers. Free web directories are being exploited all of the time by spammers and automated submitters which will submit a website to a large amount of directories in just a few minutes. Paid directory owners will not allow this to happen. Spammers who use automated systems do not pay for their submissions, so paid directory owners can spot them right away if a site has been submitted by a spammer.
Does It Pay Off To Submit To Piad Directories?
Save yourself some time. Because free directories tend to be more susceptible to spammers and have a large amount of submissions, then it is almost impossible for the free directory owner to manually go through all of the submissions and review them. A vast majority of websites which are submitted are also just simply attempting to get a backlink free of charge which means that the website that they are trying to submit is most likely particularly low quality. When you select paid web directories to submit to, your site is going to be listed in just a matter of days because most paid directories have a team of employees that should be able to review submitted websites a lot quicker.
The chances of a website getting accepted quickly is increased when you decide to submit to a paid directory. Take note that paying does not guarantee that your site will be accepted, paying only increases the chance of getting your website reviewed and listed quicker. The key thing to remember is that whenever you submit your website to a paid directory you are going to be informed right away if your website has been accepted or not. Most free directories will take weeks if not months. Most of the free directory sites don't inform you on the status of your website submission.
Higher page rank:
An additional good advantage of using paid directories is that a great many of these will already have a very high page rank. With paid directories, search engine marketing firms are trusted to submit websites in an automatic manner which makes it faster instead of going through the slow and error-prone technique of manually submitting content to the search engines. Most paid directories have a very high trust factor with the search engine firms which means they are allowed to give a major boost in your website's rankings in lots of search engines. With this relationship of these paid directories and search engines, it enables your website to experience faster indexing and refresh times.
Author Resource:-
I have been a directory owner for over Ten years, paid and free. I have used directories myself to improve google rankings. It is a thankless task by any standards but one that I enjoy. For acceptance, one of the fastest directories I have ever submitted to is a Directory Share. It took them just 30 minutes to review my submission.
