Site Submission to Directories

sinitom · #1 (**permalink**) 10-05-2005, 07:42 PM

Hi everyone,

I own a site that contains businesses for sale throughout United States.The site is still in it's infancy and i am working on it.
My question is whether manual submission of site to 60-70 directories a week be taken by search engines as spam.
How will spiders respond to a sudden and drastic increase of links to the site from dirs?

Thanks in advance,
Reeta.

cbp · #2 (**permalink**) 10-05-2005, 10:38 PM

I do that for new sites all the time - just do it.

I came across a post on another forum earlier today that of 120 directories he submitted to, only 25 were listed after one month (....funny how everyone complains about DMOZ and not all these others...)

I have never worried about too many links too quickly.

CBP

writergrrrl48 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-05-2005, 11:42 PM

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funny how everyone complains about DMOZ and not all these others...)

so few people believe there is life beyond Google & DMOZ ...

Note on submitting to directories: it can't be said often enough - do your best to write guidelines-compliant submittals. That's the best way to get a listing added in a timely way.

As an editor in many good directories, I admit to passing over submittals that clearly weren't even close to meeting the basic guidelines. I review the ones that look like the submitter made an effort. And I frequently decline those that are so far offbase it's clear the submitter didn't bother to read the guidelines.

It is painfully obvious when a submitter has not taken the time to try to write a decent listing. And since many of the directories do have generally similar guidelines as far as titles and descriptions, there is no excuse for a frequent submitter to NOT try to learn how to do it at least close to correctly.

So the kind of person who writes titles full of keywords, and fills their descriptions with promotional wording, shouldn't waste their time (and editors' time) by submitting. That time should be spent learning basic guidelines compliance - it will pay off.

OK I'm off the soapbox now :-)

amar · #4 (**permalink**) 10-05-2005, 11:57 PM

Hi Reeta,

Only 20% of the sites get listed when you are submitting to directories. As listings in directories is a manual process it will take 4 to 6 weeks for getting listed in the directories. The main things they will take into considered is whether your site is submitted to the specific category or not and they will take a lot of considerations for listing a site. But dont submit to same search engine twice, it will treat as spam. You can submit to any number of search engines.

Regards,
amar

sinitom · #5 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005, 12:54 AM

Thanks a lot. I will make sure to follow the guidelines.

cbp · #6 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005, 02:24 AM

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But dont submit to same search engine twice, it will treat as spam. You can submit to any number of search engines.

No it won't. Don't even bother submitting once to search engines as its a total waste of tme.

CBP

**ctabuk** · #7 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005, 05:00 AM

I was delighted by - I hope I get this right writergrrrl - or something like that -I wholly endorse those words of wisdom. www.pheedster.com Directory list will keep you amused on many a winters night.

JuniorOnline · #8 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005, 07:10 AM

is there a specific place where I can find a list of directories so I can add my sites to it?

cbp · #9 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005, 07:38 AM

There is a sticky at the top of this forum:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=21900

CBP

JuniorOnline · #10 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005, 09:17 AM

This forum is the *best*!!!

thank you

writergrrrl48 · #11 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ctabuk

I was delighted by - I hope I get this right writergrrrl - or something like that -I wholly endorse those words of wisdom. www.pheedster.com Directory list will keep you amused on many a winters night.

I'm so glad to be today's delight :-)

And thanks for the link - winter IS coming on, and as long as my connection stays on, I've got some good reading while I watch the snow. Who is pheedster?