Submitting Your Site to Directories

Submitting your site to prominent search directories should be your first order of business.

Getting listed on the Open Directory Project (OPD), also known as DMOZ, and on Yahoo! are especially important. This is because the OPD and Yahoo are very prominent directories that receive large amounts of traffic and themselves have large amounts of links – both incoming and outgoing. Perhaps the most important link you can have is from the OPD as it feeds so many other directories.

As a refresher, search directories contain website listings that are ordered alphabetically under categories and sub-categories. It is important to remember that site listings are placed into directories by people – unlike search engines, which place and rank sites using automated programs (spiders and robots). Also unlike search engines, search directories can alter the title and description of your site to better “fit” into their categories.

Tip: For every search directory you submit your site to and get listed on, you should add a link pointing to it on your Related Links page. Make sure that you point to the specific category or sub-category page that you are listed in.