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Selecting The Best Category When Submitting To Web Directories
Selecting the best categories when submitting to a web directory, to give
your site every chance of achieving top rankings for the keywords you want
to target.
Selecting the right category when submitting to a web directory can mean
the difference between achieving top rankings and being lost in oblivion.
Don't think that by paying for your submission, it guarantees top
rankings. It doesn't! The only guarantee you will get is for a review within
a certain time limit. If you don't select the right category, you might as
well just be throwing your money out the window.
Here's how you should find the best category to submit to, in order to
give your site every chance of achieving top rankings for the keywords you
want to target.
Go to the web directory's home page and enter in the exact keyword phrase
you're targeting in the search box.
Let's use the Yahoo! directory as an example. A search for, "cheap Web
hosting" returns this page of results:
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=cheap+web+hosting
Take a look at the category link directly underneath the #1 listing,
where it says:
"More sites about: Web Site Hosting > Directories"
The majority of the top listings are placed under this category. This
tells you that Yahoo! considers this particular category as the most
relevant for the keyword phrase we searched for.
Click on the "Web Site Hosting > Directories" category link. This will
take you to the sub-category in the Yahoo! directory.
On the next page, take a look at the border at the top of the page that
stretches across the screen, directly underneath the banner. It's in yellow.
This indicates that the category is classified as commercial. Non-commercial
categories are in blue.
You will also find the listing that you clicked on located somewhere down
the page.
There you have it. That's how you select the best category when
submitting to a web directory. You can use a similar technique when
submitting to other web directories.
For example, to submit to the
LookSmart Directory, find the best category in
MSN Search. The reason for this is
because MSN search results include LookSmart listings and sends more traffic
than LookSmart itself.
The same is true for the Open Directory Project
index. In this instance, use the Google
Directory.
Try these directories and search engines:
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