Introduction to Directory Submission

What is Directory Submission?

• You can also call Directory submission as listing.
• As listing is used to build the high quality no-follow backlinks.
• Every new venture who has just started their business must submit or register their website's url and your business information to the directory submission sites in order to gain traffic from those websites  and also a good page rank.
• Through business listings you can create online portfolios of your business which contains your business information such as your name, address, phone number, working hours and other vital information according to need of particular directory submission sites.
• Every listing site has their own guidelines which you have to follow in order to list your business in that website.
• Business who list correct information and photos which are updated at regular interval are able to get better results in their rankings.

Categories of directory submission:-

1. Paid and featured-

• As the name suggest, for having quality backlinks you will have to pay to submit your site on the directories.
• Your site will be submitted within 24-48 hours.
• The main advantage of paying for a directory submission is that when you submit your website on those online directories they may regard you higher rank than the free ones by the search engine.
• In the long run, it may not worth it as submitting site on free listing sites has same advantage.

2. Regular link with reciprocal links-

• A reciprocal link is an agreement between two websites to provide a hyperlink within their own website to each other's site.
• In other words, reciprocal means when you submit link to a listing site then a code will be generated and you have to copy that code and paste it to your website's head part of the code.
• It will then go for approval and checked by the directory website developers and after the approval your website will be visible on that listing website. 
• It will take 1 to 2 weeks for the approval.

3. Free and regular listings-

• As we can understand from the name, when you submit your website for free in the listings.
• You have to be regular in submitting your business website in order to gain traffic and for building quality backlinks.
• This technique is the most common way used by many people as it is genuine way a submitting your website in the listings.
• In duration of 4 to 6 months you will be able to get results rather than time consuming it is the most effective way of building quality backlinks.    

You can use various websites like "Sitepromotiondirectory","GoogleMyBusiness", "247webdirectory" for listing your website on the web as these sites are very popular directory submissions websites.