SEO Tip 3: How To Submit Your Site To A Directory?
How To Submit Your Site To A Free Directory and have a good chance that the site listing will be approved? I can give you some tips from the first hand as I am one of the people that approve or delete links waiting to be included into the Buzz Directory. Other directory owners that probably feel just about the same. I know that for the most of people that submit a site any directory is just another directory and wnat to submit as quickly as possible. But for me, a submitted link is just another submitted link and if I don’t like it I will delete it 
(sorry). So it makes sense to take a little more time and follow this rules:
How To Submit Your Site To A Directory Rules
Title
Do not stuff the title full of related or unrelated keywords. I know that this is what counts for SERP positions, but directory owners look at the site title as you might look at your own name. What is the name of your website, of your company, of your service? Site with a title loans, loans, loans will be deleted 100%. Also make sure you start with a capital letter.
URL
If the directory does not say that it takes deep links (Buzz Directory doesn’t) than it is 99% sure that your link that looks like www.my-site-for-loans.com/loans-loans-loans.html will not be included. Only submit full domains.
Category
Submit to the right category. Most directories will not bother to correct your category, your site will simply be deleted.
Description
Start with a capital letter. Finish with a full stop. Make sure that you description fits into the number of words/characters limit. If the description is cut in the middle, the site will not be included. With description like “This is the site about loans, bad loans, good loans that can be very very” you can be sure it will go into trash.
Description keyword stuffing. It is OK to put some keywords into the description, but a description should be about the problem that your site will solve. Just a bunch of keywords separated with commas will get you nowhere.
If you got this far, there is a good chance that you will be listed, no matter what your site looks like :).
Reciprocal link
Reciprocal link is like a candy for directory owners eyes, it is the first place where my eyes go. Even if the directory does not require reciprocal links, your site will be reviewed faster and there is a bigger chance it will be included if you link back to the directory.
The submitted website
Do not submit sites that are not yet finished, make sure there is some usefull content on your site for the visitors. Blogs with just one post, pages with no info - just ads etc will not be accepted.
That’s mostly it. If you have any questions, please ask.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
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July 3rd, 2007 at 9:12 am
nice to be link to your website
July 5th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Thank you
I have this directory of hot new sites on the web. If you have a new and quality site that you want to promote - submit it to directory. It’s free.
July 31st, 2007 at 1:00 am
rules of internal page submission- pls can you tell me that internal page directory submission is usefull or not and what is rules of internal page directory submission.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:54 am
If you are talking about internal pages of your website, submission is very usefull, because you get some backlinks for your other pages and not just the frontpage. But mostly directories do not accept deep links or internal pages because than you could submitt houndreds of pages from a single website and directory would be filled with similar entries and not very useful.
If you are talking about submitting your site to Buzz directory and you site showing on one of the internal pages of the directory, for instance http://www.buzz-directory.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/ than it is of course also usefull. Your link would benefit the most if you could submit it to the front page of the directory but soon there would be to many links and the final result would be close to zero, so it is better that the links are sorted in categories. Just make sure you submit to the correct category. As for internal pages - higher ranked pages like frontpage pass their pagerank to internal pages so with time more and more internal pages get higher pagerank and become more valuable for you.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:23 am
I can’t find, what I have to do, to select a category. The backlink to your site is already established.
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:50 am
Hello Hans-Peter. Your link will be submitted to the category in which you are in when you click submit link. So you have to browse to the desired category and then click submit link. This way we get better results and people submit their site to the correct category more often.
Regards,
Buzzzzzz
August 8th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
But mostly directories do not accept deep links or internal pages because than you could submitt houndreds of pages from a single website and directory would be filled with similar entries and not very useful.
September 16th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I am disappointed that I submitted to this directory and my link was rejected. I am not upset that it was rejected, I am upset that the email did not tell me why. All of the the possible reasons the email listed did not seem to apply to our submission.
I will try again in the future, but I am making a list of sites that reject without saying the actual reason. These sites will be posted and we will remove them from our submission lists. Please consider letting people know why you reject, since it doesn’t take that long to do so and you will really be helping those that want to get it right.
Thanks!
September 17th, 2007 at 3:41 am
Hello Chris,
email states the most common reasons that the sites are rejected and it is automatically send out when the link is not approved. Personalizing each e-mail would double the workload and make review times longer since we do get lots and lots of sites that do not fulfill the criteria for inclusion in our directory. 99% of the time it is one of the reasons listed in the rejection email.
Prom personal experience I know that it is sometimes confusing and not clear why a site was rejeceted so we respond to every email we get questioning the reasons for rejection (it also helps if you resend your website data in the email) and yes, it can also be a mistake from our part. So again, if you are unsure why the site was rejected, send us an email with your site information.
Thanks!
October 12th, 2007 at 10:42 am
i have noticed recent changes in my PR rankings and have talked about it on http://www.googlebugs.com, i have noticed that my results are going up and down cant figure it out but the updates are now happening after 6 months and should be done by the end of the month
thank
aks
October 13th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Hi akshay, no PR changes for my sites for now. I don’t think there is a major PR update going on. I did read some reports of PR changes, they were mostly from sites that got lower PR.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Hi,
I’m surprised that you rejected my submission without giving a specific reason.
How do I effect correction when I don’t even know why I was penalised.
I went through your mail and blog but could not see any reasonable excuse for the rejection except for any other reasons not explained or non-reciprocal linking.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Hello Sammy, if your site was rejected yesterday, that it is most likely that it was submited to the wrong category - top category. Only featured links are allowed in top categories. Just send us an email when you resubmit so we can check your site asap.