Directories

Directories are maintained by humans. Most online directories contain a lot of categories and subcategories and you submit your site to a specific category. The editor of the category then decides if your site is worthy of his category.

The biggest directories have categories for every website, but there are a lot of smaller industry specific directories that only allow sites from that industry. Most directories only add a website once, so pick the directory carefully.

Many directories add your site for free as long as you submit to the right directory. Yahoo for instance asks a yearly submission fee for adding you to their directory, but they can get you traffic and a link from Yahoo can help your ranking in meta search engines.

For most meta search engines the amount of links to your website is a very important factor for high rankings. Add your website to as many directories as possible to get a lot of free links.

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