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Submit your site

In order to increase link popularity and search engine awareness of your site, it is important to submit your site to different directories. There are many directories, some general, others specific and your site has to “fit in”.

Why should you submit your site to directories?

Directories are not search engines. Unlike search engines, directories manually check each and every site that is submitted to them. The human factor is important to make sure that real web sites only are published in the directory and that all these web sites comply with the rules that the directory has set.

Search engines use directories as sources for web sites because the data within a directory is, due to the human factor, of the highest quality.

The single most important directory is the Open Directory Project. This directory has over 7 million web sites filed and is one of the sources for many search engines (Google being the biggest.) Besides the Open Directory Project, there are many directories that you can submit your site to. Below this article you will find a list of directories that you can use.

Do NOT submit your site to thousands of search engines!

Many people believe that, in order to maintain (high) rankings, they have to submit their site to all search engines over and over again. This is absolutely not true. You need to submit your site only once to a search engine and even if you don’t your web site will probably be found through the directories. Once a search engine has found your site, it will keep it in its index and re-crawl the site every now and then until you take your site of line or disallow it through the robots.txt file on your server.

• Google
• Yahoo: First go to the category you want to submit to and then click on "suggest a site".
• Teoma: Click on "Submit your site"
• Overture

There are many more Search engines and Directories. Too many to list them all here. But with the 5 mentioned in this article you will have access to the majority of the searchers.

Don't forget to get links from other web sites as well. With the link popularity from the directories you´re not done yet. The more links that point at your web site, the more popular your site is for the search engines and the higher your rankings.