Here we are today with another chapter of my Marketing Your Blog series and this one is also highly related with SEO. Today we will submit our blog to several web directories. Our aim here is to get more external links to our blog. The more links the more relevance we will get on search engines index. Surely some people put importance on the PR (Page Rank) juice we can get from the web directories but it is less important than you think. If one directory with PR4 links you it doesn’t mean you have a PR4 link because you are placed into a category which has lower PR than the directory’s index and also you share the PR juice with all the URLs contained in that category. However it is true that you can get a bit.

Now it is time to be sincere with you. This article was planned lot of time ago but I procrastinated it because I was lazy about making a smart list of web directories… Until today . The reason is that I found a very interesting blog with a very good selection of web directories to submit our URL. I must thank Norhafidz Nordin from Norhafidz.com for his good work selecting them.

As Norhafidz said in his article it is far better for your Search Engine Optimization to get one way links than reciprocal links. Reciprocal links are seen by the search engines as a less natural link building than the previous one. All of us know the importance that Google puts in natural linkbuilding.

Most of these directories we have in the list placed below have three kind of submissions:

• Paid submission.
• Free submission with reciprocal link.
• Free submission.

Logically the paid one has more preference over the rest because your link probably will be shown as featured link. It is not said but probably the second one in preference is the one with reciprocal link but this is not what we want, I mean, one way links. However you can do what I’m doing now, an article about web directories in which you link back all of them. This way both parts, the blogger and the web directory, get benefits: the blogger gets backlinks without reciprocal in his index and the web directory is promoted too.

Here you have the list of web directories to submit your blog:

• DMoz Open Directory Project
• Greenairo Web Directory
• Maxell Panama
• SolutioNet Web Directory
• Ns8.biz Free Submit Web SEO Directory
• Lemurgene Links Directory
• Evil Directory
• Nonar Web Directory
• eSiq Directory
• Trunek Directory
• Wisob Directory

If you want to read the other chapters of the Marketing Your Blog series here they are:

• Marketing Your Blog, #1. Comment On Blogs
• Marketing Your Blog, #2. Get Your Own Domain
• Marketing Your Blog, #3. Design Your Own Logo
• Marketing Your Blog, #4. Must Have A Favicon

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