Directory Submissions

It is important to submit your site to good quality directories such as the Open Directory Project for online marketing. Search directories contain website listings that are ordered alphabetically and ordered by categories. Unlike organic search results, the websites that are placed into directories are put there by humans. It may help to point to the category on which your website is listed in these directories on your resources links pages because the websites in the same category as yours will also be of interest to visitors to your site.

Google's directory takes its data from the open directory project and then ranks them according to pagerank. The open directory project provides directory listings to many other directories aswell such as AOL, AltaVista and smaller specialist directores. It is staffed by volunteers and therefore very slow to respond to submissions, therefore it is important to add your site to ODP as soon as it is complete.

Google often uses what you have submitted to the open directory project in the snippet information on SERPS. If your website is location specific then it should be submitted to the geographic location.