Heres a quick tip for you, when searching for directories to submit to think about the following:
- If you sell sofas instead of submitting to shopping>home>lounge consider >shopping>antiques and collectables as chances are theres fewer out bound links from that page i.e. think latterally and source a related folder with fewest outbound links – Googles search suggestion tool will help you identify the appropriate latteral terms.
- Look at MozRank instead of PageRank as PR is all whack at the moment (how down with the kids am I lol).
- Take advantage of the description box and max it out as it will increase the pages relevancy to your term (this works even better if you’re submitting multiple micro/feeder sites to the same directory location).
- Dont spam the title box.
- Dont bother with Meta information, its not used often.
- If you can add an article to a category do the same with a good title and looooong description.
- Try and adapt your link title to match the folder’s name i.e. a category about Furniture has my link with the anchor “Antique Furniture Sofa and Chairs”
Enjoy!
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Hi Ann,
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Hi Mark,
Do you spend much time with directories at the moment? are there any particular tactics/resource you follow or just use google search queries to identfy relevant directories?
Thanks,
Lee
There’s a few resources like info.vilesilencer.com which is pretty good and the old addurl.nu which seems up to date, but all in all, i use good old Google and SEOChat.com’s Page Rank filtered search.