| Many website owners do not understand the | | | | Obviously, if you have a business enterprise being run |
| importance of directories, some even question if | | | | on your web site, the need for traffic becomes an |
| directories are effective in their overall marketing | | | | absolute necessity, since without traffic, no one visits |
| campaign for their website. Many online businesses | | | | the site which means you get no business. Many |
| can increase web traffic, probability and rankings on | | | | webmaster don't understand the importance of web |
| search engines by just submitting sites to popular | | | | directories, the reason you need to include your site is |
| directories. | | | | because the web directories are indexed and your link |
| By submitting your website to directories there are so | | | | will show up in searches, plus you get a link back to |
| many benefits associated with this. The first benefit to | | | | your site. When you are attempting to maximize the |
| acquiring free traffic from web directories is that it is | | | | traffic that comes to your website, every little bit of |
| an economical way to obtain website visitors. | | | | promotion helps and web directories can help you gain |
| Search engines continually search out new sites using | | | | a big chunk of that 20% of web traffic you have been |
| robots or spiders, they follow the links on sites to other | | | | missing out on. |
| sites, and they then update their database with the | | | | One method of traffic is referrals from web |
| new site that was found. A great way to market your | | | | directories. Many webmasters use directories to get |
| website is to create free incoming links that point to | | | | traffic to their sites, the reason for this is that most are |
| your website, once you do this visitors will visit your | | | | free but others all you need to do is place a reciprocal |
| site.. Posting links on web directories draws website | | | | link on your site and they will link to you or purchase |
| users and builds one way links. | | | | featured links and they place the links immediately on |
| On a web directory, the links to various websites are | | | | their directory. |
| put in groups depending on their subject matter. Many | | | | One of the best directories to get listed in is called |
| major search engines look at link popularity as a factor | | | | Dmoz. Many website owners list their sites in this |
| in calculating the ranking of a website, so to achieve a | | | | directory, once Dmoz accepts the website the |
| good ranking you will need to build relevant links back | | | | website ranking move up in the search engine results |
| to your site, this is one of the most important marketing | | | | very quickly. Google and other search engines see |
| tactics when it comes to optimization. When first | | | | Dmoz as a very reliable human edited directory. It is |
| starting out with a new website it is hard figure out | | | | free but you must follow the guidelines of the directory |
| how to get links pointing back to your site. There are | | | | or your site will not be accepted. Why stop at Dmoz |
| so many ways to do this, article, free directories, | | | | there are so many other directories with very good |
| reciprocal link exchange, advertising, post to forums | | | | page rank. Submit to many as you can, the more links |
| and posting to blogs. | | | | the better. |