Directory Submissions - (Link Building)

There is probably no better first marketing step for any website at all than submitting it to the top

400 or so Link Directories. As you can see from my rating, it’s not even close to being your best method of traffic generation. However, if you care about incoming links to your website, this is THE FOUNDATION that all other links will build on, because Search Engines start in these places and find your website through the links you place in them.

I’ve built over 300 different websites for all kinds of different purposes in my career, but I have submitted all of them to the legitimate link directories without fail. It’s a no-brainer that really should be thought of as necessary, despite the piddling amount of traffic it brings.

There are probably more link directories out there than anyone could ever submit to, but luckily it is only important to submit to the ones that have some PageRank. Even still, the number of submissions you’ll make for each site will be between 400 and 500, so this is not a quick task to do. Without software to keep up with all of them, and of course to help you paste your content into all of those forms, you’d take way too long to finish a single site’s posting.

Yes, I have a free program here that you can download that will do the trick. It searches, even by keyword if you want to limit to a theme, through all the directories out there and you can filter by PageRank. Then it helps you submit to them all. However, it has a bit of trouble populating all the fields for you… This is common with just about all auto-submitters. Usually, free software for this purpose is next to worthless, this one is just a bit rough around the edges.

Here’s where you can download the Freeware Directory Submitter program.

By contrast, the industry-leading Directory Submitter, “Link Directory Submitter,” is going to help you automate a good bit more, and almost never fails to auto-populate your details into the new form on each page… But the downside is that it’s not free, and adding to its database of approximately 1200 pre-programmed directories isn’t very easy to do.