Search Engine Submission

Directory Submissions
Directory submission is the process of submitting a website's URL to an appropriate Internet directory. The benefit of employing directory submission as a part of SEO strategy is two fold: it attracts industry-specific visitors and it provides valuable backlinks, which can significantly increase a website's page rank status with search engines. Examples of online directories include the Yellow Pages, Google directory and, perhaps the most well known of all, Yahoo! directory.

Yet, like most SEO techniques there exists both a good way and a less favorable way of directory submission.

Automatic Directory Submissions
Nowadays software applications are plentiful and are available for just about any conceivable task. And among them are those applications capable of automatically submitting a website's base URL to thousands of online directories obviously at a price.

Naturally this option appeals to a number of web users as any number of directories can be submitted to in mere seconds, which make this a cost-effective SEO solution. But as far as the advantages go, that's where it stops.

The reality is that automatic directory submissions are frowned upon by most legitimate SEO experts and, more importantly, by search engines. The reasons for this include an implicit lack of quality as different directories have different criteria and that the submissions themselves will all look the same, a big no-no from a search engine point-of-view. Additionally, users of automatic directory submission software are at risk of omitting a number of the higher quality directories and therefore, higher quality backlinks.

The result of automatic directory submissions is a demoted search engine page rank status and, in some cases, a ban as well.

Manual Directory Submissions
Those who do the work will be rewarded for their efforts, as is the case with manual directory submissions. Where their automatic counterparts usually have a precompiled list of internet directories, manual directory submission requires the entity responsible for the submissions to manually find them on the internet. And once found all the details of a particular website will have to be entered by hand. Naturally this comes at a price often higher than automatic submissions but also has its advantages which could prove to be more profitable in the long run.

The benefits of manual directory submission include higher quality submissions to a selected list of authoritative internet directories. This will produce higher quality backlinks and, as a result, better page rank status.

And just to put our money where our mouth is, the success of manual directory submission can be seen in the shape and form of this website. As all our submissions are done by hand and only to the most revered internet directories, our backlinks are of exceptional quality. The result is that many visitors, such as you, are able to find our website and thereby contribute to our continued success.

Should you feel inclined to become a part of the success, give us a call or send us an e-mail. We'll go to work for you and treat your website like our own.