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Free Web Directory

Date Added: May 15, 2007 06:57:46 PM
If you are just starting out with a new site, and want to get some great back links from relevant pages pointing to it, a great place to begin your link building campaign is to submit your site to a free web directory. There are literally thousands of free web directories on the Internet, which you can submit your website to in a matter of seconds, and as long as your site offers high quality content, or is useful, you can almost guarantee that you will get it listed.
 
Although most free web directories have fairly low levels of traffic, a link from them can be immensely valuable in boosting your ranking in the major search engines such as Google, MSN, Ask, and Yahoo! Search.
 
Most of the major search engines place huge importance in the number and quality of links pointing to web sites when they create their results pages. The most popular sites are judged to be the most relevant for a query, and the way in which a search engine algorithm judges popularity is by counting the number of times a particular web page or site is mentioned elsewhere, and how many other sites link to it.
 
When you first start out with a new site, getting people to link to it before they have really heard anything about it can be a tough proposition, and unless you have a significant budget with which to buy plenty of inbound links to boost your PageRank, there are few options available to you.
 
If you submit your site to a Free Web Directory when it is first starting up, you may well find that in time, that directory, if it is properly promoted and managed by its owners can develop into a major force in the search engine world, and in time may even start to charge for links from it. As its importance grows, so does the value of your link from it, and as both mature, a free directory may start to provide substantial traffic as well as offering a boost to your position in the search engine results.
 
There are loads of places where you can find a free web directory to submit your site to. If you check out the directories category in most web master forums, you will usually find a section where people announce and promote their free web directories, and there are numerous places that compile long lists of the best free directories that you can submit your site to. You should also search using the main search engines to find the biggest directories that offer free submission, and compile a list.
 
When submitting to a free web directory, it is a great idea to keep a note of what you submitted and when, and then check back regularly to see when your site gets listed. When it appears on the page, you can submit that page directly to the search engines to get it crawled faster, and start receiving the benefits of the link almost immediately.