June 20th, 2008

Directory Submission, Good or Goose?

Posted by Matt | Discussion: Leave a comment »

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I have been brought into this attention the last few weeks, two weeks in exact. One of my readers and also a friend of mine in Canada asking for my opinions or tips in getting her blog off the bottom pile of Google search results. She highlighted and pointed out to me than she wants to use managed or manual directory submission services at a minimum cost.

So, again I get some time off and start googling on this topic. I found one website, Submit2Please that offers what exactly I wanted to look in, that is manual directory submission. I choose to explore more on Submit2Please because I was caught with their ISO 9001:2000 standards in quality management systems. Sounds great huh?

There are a few categories in directory submission which is more specific and targeted, namely:

Directory submission service
Social bookmarking service
Article submission service
Niche directory submission service
Pay per link service
Search engine submission service
Press release distribution

So, very brief here. If you are targeting general audience, go for directory and search engine submission and also pay per link, else if you are targeting a specific group of people, go for article and niche directory submission.

So it is good, not goose?

Well, what can I say is that if you are looking for a fast way to build one way link to your website or blog, you can opt for such services and go for only those trusted service provider and NOT for cheap package! Some websites offer 1k of submissions at a very cheap price e.g. $5, so beware, you might lost your $5 with nothing been submitted.

How about free services?

Is there anything like a free lunch now? Well, you are taking a gamble. Free directory submission websites usually submits your website to those directories which is labeled as “spam” by many search engine. Again a warning here.