By: Rick Skuw
Submitted: 2012-01-26 17:15:55 | Word Count: 670
An important first step in marketing your website is of course gaining backlinks from other web sites. There are a variety of approaches in doing this including article sites, forum signatures and also web directories. A web directory submission is one of them better means to gain backlinks to your site. It is 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 like google to increase the amount of visitors to the site.
Finding and selecting the directory which may be best suited for your needs is never straightforward. You can come upon} free directories along with paid ones. Although all directories share a common purpose, working out the aim of these directories is rarely similar for free ones and the paid ones. That is because featured directories offer a lot more advantages over the free directories.
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Why are paid directory submissions better:
Free directories are usually the target of spammers. Free web directories are being exploited all of the time by spammers and automated submitters which can submit a website to a huge quantity 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 immediately if a site has been submitted by a spammer.
Will It Pay Off To Submit To Piad Directories?
Save yourself some time. Since free directories are more susceptible to spammers and get a large number of submissions, then it is almost impossible for a free directory owner to manually look through all of the submissions and review them. A vast majority of websites that are submitted are also just simply doing this to get a backlink for free which means that the website that they are trying to submit is in all probability particularly low quality. When you choose paid web directories to submit to, your site will be listed in just a few 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 choose 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 do not inform you about the status of your website submission.
Higher page rank:
Another good advantage of using paid directories is that a great many of them will already possess a very high page rank. With paid directories, search engine marketing firms are trusted to submit websites in an automated manner which makes it faster instead of going through the slow and error-prone strategy of manually submitting content to the search engines. Most paid directories have a very high trust factor with all of the search engine firms which means they are allowed to give a major boost in your website's rankings in many 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.
