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Submitting to web directories; good or bad? Well, it seems there's no clear answer. Visit any on the world's more popular Internet marketing forums and you'll see hundreds of people haggling over the merits and de-merits of directory submission. Of course, there are two sides to every story so you should never take anything on face value.

Personally, as a professional SEO I'd never bank my whole SEO strategy on directories. However, that's not to say that I don't include this activity in my overall link-building strategy. It's a fairly safe bet to assume that directory link's don't pass that much themed relevance or page rank authority, but does that mean that you should axe them from your link-building efforts?

A wise man once said "don't put all your eggs in one basket" and that's certainly a line of thinking I'd apply to submitting to directory type sites. A little bit of this and a little bit of that - something to keep the spiders happy and match what your competitors are doing.

Now, there's no way that I would say to you that web directory submission is the be all and end all of link building. It's clearly not! Any SEO worth their salt will know that and advise accordingly. However, what I will say is that we recommend that all web sites do some initial and maintained directory link building, just to keep a nice and healthy link-building profile ticking over. Don't overdo it though, and don't expect to see great results purely on the back of it, hence you can take Link building Services for this.

I'd also like to point out that we fanatically monitor some of the leading authority's in SEO (both agency and in-house) and we continue to see directory listings as part of their overall link-building activities.

One of the main reasons we suggest partaking in a little directory submission is it's ability to help you manually shape you back link profile (the variation in anchor text found throughout links pointing to your site) to ensure an even mix of URL, brand and key word based links.

Directory submissions do not just stop with getting back links for your website, it also gets you targeted traffic to your website. Directories were originally used to get traffic to websites. Directory submissions will be worth the time and effort invested only if the links that are obtained in return are search-engine friendly or 'SEO-friendly'. By this we mean that the links should be counted and valued by the search engines.

Directory submissions are one of the best techniques to improve your site rank in the search engines. Make sure, this technique is time consuming but the effect is seen later on. Search engines and the web directories actually have the same objectives. However, they are different to each other in some specific aspects. Search engines normally rank websites both ways: through outstanding website content and first rate inbound links. This makes linking an even more attractive goal for most websites. Search engines and directories don't like automatic submissions. They consider it a form of Spam.

Website directories also may offer regional categories such as countries, states, cities, continents and Islands. Website designers offer to help you create an effective website that will boost your website marketing and also enhance your site visitors experience thereby increasing sales or repeated visits.

Spending money in building an effective website for Internet marketing should be the first step for Internet marketing success. Listings in many directories are simple links to a web site, which can help with Link Popularity. In addition, it's important for new web sites to have links from other sites in order for the search engines to follow the links to the site and index the site's pages. Listings in many directories are considered "permanent" (they won't change your listing), so if you do it poorly yourself, you might be hurting your site long term. If you don't know how to do it best, you should have us do your submissions.

Submitting your link to free directories is a must, except for those that require a reciprocal link for your site to be listed. You can do it on your own or can ask a Link building Services to do it for you. Ultimately, it's about you to decide whether to give a reciprocal link or not. Submit your competitor's site to directories and later attend the funeral! Submitting your website with automated or semi-automated software causes a lot of problems. First it is very difficult to get your website in the correct category with automated software.