Directories - Get More Visitors To Your Website

These are similar to search engines but instead of relying on automatic algorithms, directories have actual human beings checking websites!  Yahoo!, The Open Directory Project and JoeAnt are all human edited directories.

The Excel sheet - http://www.kolimbo.com/Search-Engine-Sheet.xls - has a list of directories that you can submit to.  The main difference with directories over search engines is that directories only list the home page and the information they file for your site is either the information you give them via your submission, or a description written by a directory editor. 

The 2 most important directories to submit to are;

Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com (Costs $299 for commercial sites)

The Open Directory Project - http://www.dmoz.org (Free)


DO NOT submit more than once during a 3 month period, and do not submit one website to multiple categories.  Read the submission guidelines for each site if you're unsure about anything.

The Excel sheet also has sites that have huge lists of specialist directories.  These can be the source of lots of targeted traffic, eg. If you have a Tennis site then submit it to Sports directories and Tennis directories as well as the main general directories.