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What are Web Directories?

Web directories are online sites that allow you to share and bookmark your content. This content can be a post from your blog, or a post from other sites you visit. On these web directories, their content, i.e submissions from individuals are categorized based on how related they are. This allows visitors to the directory to find any topic they have interest in and in a way, it provides an easier navigation for visitors. The basic feature of these web directories is interlinking of several sites to share relevant content, which people on searching, can find conveniently. There are several web directories you'll find on the net, but some are of higher pagerank than others and have a high reputation in search engines. In this post you'll get to know one of the ways you can use web directories to promote your blog/site in order to give it the exposure it needs.

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Benefits Of Web Directories

The relevance of web directories to webmasters are numerous. Some of these include:

To get Targeted Traffic: 

Since these web directories are popular with thousands on visitors in a day either direct or from search engines, you can get good referral traffic from them. For new bloggers especially, while you're still optimizing your site for search engines in order to increase its pageviews, you can use web directory as a source of traffic to your site.

For Link Building:

 Link building as an off page search engine optimization techniques is a strategy every webmaster must not neglect. By sharing your post or URL to web directories, you're actually building backlinks to your site which will inturn help in ranking your site higher in search engines result pages.

Potential Customers:

Other than visitors from search engines, another place you can find potential customers for your products/services is on web directories. With the thousands of visitors from different places all over the world to these directories and with your site's URL listed, just like traffic, you can get more customers for your products

Web Directory Submission Processes

Before submitting your URL, ensure you have read the terms and conditions in each of the directories. This will enable you to know if your site will meet their requirements and hence be accepted. Below are the basic steps involved in submitting a site to web directories.

• First you have to create an account on these directories and also confirm your account registration via email.
• Next is to choose the relevant category and sub category for your site. The step of choosing the category is an important one because it will determine your target visitors. Here, your target visitors are the people that have interest or will be interested in your product or site.

Web Directories For Link Building

Below, a list of high page rank web directories which you can use to promote your blog/site have been given. Their page rank ranges from 7 to 4,  meaning that  the backlink you'll get is one of a high quality. Search engines give more value to high page rank backlinks gotten from reputable sites than those with lower or no page rank. To make the most out of these directories, share your URL to them with the steps specified above.

Site Name	Page Rank
dmoz.org	7
scrubtheweb.com	6
somuch.com	5
jayde.com	5
viesearch.com	4
www.i.co.uk	4
freewebsitedirectory.com	4
tsection.com	4
rdirectory.net	4
1abc.org	4
businessseek.biz	4
cipinet.com	4
directmylink.com	3
gainweb.org	4
amray.com	4
elitesitesdirectory.com	4
1websdirectory.com	4
9sites.net	4
synergy-directory.com	4

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With these web directories, you can improve you blog's search rankings on Google, Bing and other search engines. Before you URL is added to the directory, it will have to be approved by the admin(s). This usually takes some days or weeks depending on the site's policy. Within this period, if your site meets their criteria, it'll be accepted.