Almost any search engine spider starts its regular crawl at a directory like DMOZ or Yahoo.
The term "human-powered" mainly refers to directories, i.e. online catalogs that categorize websites into thematic sections. Yahoo!, along with the regular Web search, offers one of the most complete catalogs on the Web.…
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26 - Jimmie
I have published my website. What is the most important steps I should do to get traffic?
27 - Naresh Asim
Volunteers have the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational and community aid programs. This will give you a chance to make an important contribution to the people of Nepal and while doing so gain an in depth experience of the country and its culture, that will stay with you the rest of your life.
28 - Doc
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul and with all of your mind, and Love your Neighbor as your self.
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"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
29 - Donnie Marler
And Balaam's ass spoke.
30 - janet
hey is there any place i can find a complete list of submit free site directories ? seams most of them doesnt let adding sites with dif reasons .
also ,is there any significant directories for my site livetvradio.net ?
thx in advanced
31 - Maila rai
Hands for Help Nepal provides volunteer opportunities in Nepal. This program is ideal for those who wants to travel Neapl for long or short period.
32 - Custom Web Site Design
When you submit a site to a directory, it is queued for editorial review. Usually, when you submit, you are allowed to choose the category your site will be placed under, as well as to enter the desired description and title for your site, which will show in the related category.
33 - Roy Sagarin
Thanks
34 - hacker not cracker
Great article. I'm thinking about trying the Yahoo paid submission. The only thing I don't like about it is that it is not guaranteed. :(
35 - hannes
I just finished my website and already submitted my site to DMOZ and Yahoo. What other directories do you think are important? Is there any list with the top directories in the internet?
36 - Rob
Raul,
Great article, with some points I hadn't seen before - didn't know about Yahoo's limit on domain name lengths, for eg.
Hannes, Janet - there are thousands of directories, and several lists of good / free ones. I've put a short(ish) list of directory lists on my site.
Of those, AddURL and Info Vilesilencer are particularly useful IMHO, but the others are well worth a look too.
Rob.
37 - Hannes
Does it make sense to submit my site to hundreds of directories or may I be punished by Google cause of this behaviour?
38 - GrAveTzT
Yes it does make sense.
Directories create backlinks. Backlinks tell google how popular your site is. I submit to around 50 directories a day and it's done nothing but double my traffic and google PR, and keyword target every month.
39 - Hannes
And where do you find all those directories? I mean 50 a day are more than 18,000 per year.
40 - Adaid
I have found that DMOZ has become quite corrupt, as the editors for competitive categories will not let new website in. Any suggestions.
Cheers,
Adaid
41 - Sergey
Great article, except that it is wholly copied from Web CEO University without permission. Raul, you are going to have serious legal copyright issues if you don't stop doing this.
42 - wessite
Nice article, I also tried couple of times to add my site to yahoo but they just dont accept :(
43 - RatsInMo
Great article. But I don't think you sufficiently pushed the idea that to maximize the benefit of getting listed in a directory, you need to get listed in multiple directories. In today's world, the main benefit of directories is the backlinks to your site from such a high pagerank directory.
44 - Jay Cansay
It's almost impossible to get in the DMOZ. Is it really fair search engine results use this directories listings as weight if you can't get in it, even when you have a quality site?
Jay
45 - Jimmy
Wonderful post, yet as others mentioned, status check is not an option anymore. SO, you submit and may end up waiting years to see your link approved, if you are lucky that is.
The scandals and allegations of abuse regarding Dmoz and some of its editors are never-ending. My personal advice is to forget about Dmoz and let it die in peace. If you are keen on marketing your website in web directories then use the many available yet non-restrictive alternatives to Dmoz. There is a new Directory called Nomoz that is gaining momentum and approval from webmasters. The directory is built using the Dmoz data but making it accessible to all webmasters.
46 - dicko
great posting, either to me 'let's dmoz die slowly'.
good job raul! even this posting copied from, cause i didn't found the original resources before yours.
thnk's pal,
47 - Fred G
I have several websites that I have submitted to DMOZ....we're going on a year now and have not heard anything from them. Thanks for this bit of information.
48 - Max
I've been rejected as an editor by DMOZ.....not even sure if it was rejected by a human. I received what looked like a sysyem generated rejection....and that hurt even more. :)
49 - ThePropertyFinder
As a relatively new site this is great advice, cuts through the hype. Thank You
50 - Holly
you need to go the forums and actually connect with the dmoz editors...that may help...no begging...just suggest.
51 - Kent
I believe submitting to directories helps your overal ranking. Its tedious and time consuming but I believe it will add to your backlinks. And we all know backlinks are good!