by Julia Ramyalg, 11/10/2006
4. How to submit your web site correctly?
There are some tips and secrets and you really need to know them to get high ROI for your money and time spend on submission. Follow these 5 tips to make web directories work for your web site:
4.1. Make sure that it is a SEO friendly web directory
Links must be direct, static, and SEO-friendly, i.e. search engine robots will easily find and index your link. View the web page source code by right clicking on the page and selecting 'View Source' from the drop-down menu. Look at the page meta tags, namely 'ROBOTS' and make sure it doesn't contain 'NOFOLLOW' or 'NOINDEX' attributes.
Look at the links codes - they must be placed within tag 'A', 'URL' in 'HREF' attribute must be pointed directly to a linked web site, not redirect from the web directory domain link. Links must not contain 'NOFOLLOW' attribute.
4.2. Find the best place for your web site link.
The best place is page with good Page Rank, easily and shortly reached from index page of the web directory, that contain relevant text and links.
Browse a web directory categories and/or subcategories to find the best placement for your link. It's very important because link, placed on a page with text content relevant by theme to the web site's theme has more value in eyes of search engines. If your web site fits more than one categories or subcategories, select the one which is reached by less clicks from the home page, and/or has less other web sites links on the pages, this will give your link larger 'piece' of Page Rank.