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chennaiseo@gmail.com (Karthick) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:10:00 +0000

Finding Industry-Specific Directories

chennaiseo@gmail.com (Karthick) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:07:00 +0000

Finding Industry-Specific Directories

Some of the most targeted traffic will become from the niche, specialty “vertical”
directories in your industry or market. A simple way to find industry-specific
directories is to search for them using terms such as:

"YourKeywords + add url"
"YourKeywords + add site"
"YourKeywords + add listing"
"YourKeywords + suggest site"
"YourKeywords + submit"
"YourKeywords + submit site"
"YourKeywords + directory"

A good resource for finding industry-specific and specialty directories is at

http://www.isedb.com/html/Web_Directories/Specialty_Directories/.

Regards

karthick chennaiseo

Submitting to Local and IYP Directories

chennaiseo@gmail.com (Karthick) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:03:00 +0000

I don't care if you work out of your home office and use a 3x5 mailbox down the
block as your business address, you should get your website listed in the local and
Internet Yellow Page(IYP) directories.

The Google search results are getting more crowded with Google Local listings
appearing above the other search listings. Google Local and Yahoo Local search
results are predominately influenced by listings in Switchboard and Verizon
SuperPages so you should strive to get listings in these.

Here are the top ones to submit your site to:

Yahoo Local

To add your business listing to Yahoo Local, go to http://local.yahoo.com and then
click Add/Edit a Business at the bottom of the page.

Google Local

If you advertise with Yellow Pages, you should already be in Google Local. If not,
read the information at http://local.google.com/help/faq_local.html and then send an
email with the required information to local-listings@google.com.

AOL Yellow Pages

Go to http://yp.aol.com for a listing.

Verizon SuperPages

Go to http://www.superpages.com/about/new_chg_listing_business.html to get a
business profile listing.

Switchboard.com

Go to http://www.switchboard.com/adproducts.asp. Listings range from $15/mo to
$35/mo.

MSN Yellow Pages

Go to http://yellowpages.msn.com. MSN charges $400/yr for this - they need to keep
the shareholders happy I guess. Do only if you can really afford it.

Reagards

Karthick Chennai Seo

Submitting to Second-Tier Directories

chennaiseo@gmail.com (Karthick) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:56:00 +0000

You also should submit your site to second-tier directories. Here is a list of some

Important secondary search directories you should submit your site to:

About.com: http://www.about.com. You need to email the "Guide" of the topic first.
Click on the Guide's photo in the upper left of the page and then scroll down until you
see a "Suggest a Site" link. It can be difficult to get in but is worth it

Business.com - https://secure.business.com/registration/newlisting.jsp
Business.com charges $199 per year and is an excellent directory for B2B listings.

Small Business Directory - http://sbd.bcentral.com/

This is Microsoft’s bCentral service for $49 per year. Gets you several listings.

Gimpsy - http://www.gimpsy.com/
GoGuides - http://www.goguides.org/
Joeant - http://www.joeant.com/
Best of the Web - http://www.botw.org/
ExactSeek - http://www.exactseek.com/
WoW Directory - http://www.wowdirectory.com/
Skaffe - http://www.skaffe.com/
Abilogic – http://www.abilogic.com
Anthony Parsons – http://www.anthonyparsons.com
Greenstalk – http://www.greenstalk.com
InCrawler – http://www.incrawler.com
Info-listings – http://www.info-listings.com
Seoma – http://www.seoma.net
Sitesnoop – http://www.sitesnoop.com
Sublime – http://www.complete-directory.com
World Site Index – http://www.worldsiteindex.com
Yeandi – http://www.yeandi.com

For a larger list of both paid and free search directories to consider, see
http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php.

The problem with most free directories is that they take months to list you, if they add your site at all. So I generally don’t recommend wasting your time with the free directories.

Regards
Karthick Chennai Seo

Yahoo Directory Listings | Getting Yahoo Directory Listings | Yahoo Directory |

chennaiseo@gmail.com (Karthick) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:03:00 +0000

Getting Yahoo! Directory Listings

The Yahoo! Directory, a somewhat lesser known part of Yahoo!, works in pretty much the same way as the ODP, except that it is privately maintained Sites added to the Yahoo! Directory tend to end up in the Yahoo! index, as well as other important search indices, often with high ranking in response to searches related to the Yahoo! Directory category for the site.

To suggest your site for inclusion in the Yahoo! Directory, open the Yahoo! Directory's home page, http://dir.yahoo.com/.

You can also find the Yahoo Directory by opening the main Yahoo! home page, selecting Directory as your search category, and searching for a term. The search results you will be presented with are from the Yahoo! Directory (not the Yahoo! Web index), and the display will show where in the taxonomy you are, so you can browse through related categories.

cheers

karthick chennaiseo

Getting Dmoz Listings | Getting Open Directory Project (ODP) Listings | Taxonomic directory | Getting Listed in Directory

chennaiseo@gmail.com (Karthick) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:58:00 +0000

Getting Open Directory Project (ODP) Listings

The Open Directory Project (ODP), http://dmoz.org, is the most important taxonomic directory on the Web. Formally hosted and administered by the Netscape division of AOL, the ODP is run along the lines of an open source project with the belief that "humans do it better."

The ODP believes that web-automated search is ineffective, and getting worse, and that the small contingent of paid editors at commercial web search engine companies cannot keep up with the staggering rate of change on the Webdecaying stagnant sites, link rot, new sites, sites intended as search spam, and so on.

The ODP is run and maintained by a vast army of volunteer editors. These editors follow internal checks and balances to keep the integrity of the directory. See http://dmoz.org/guidelines/ for more information about the ODP review process and guidelines for site inclusion.

You, too, can become an ODP editor in an area of your interest and expertise. See http://dmoz.org/help/become.html for more information about becoming an ODP editor. This is a partially facetious suggestion, but one of the most effective ways to use SEO to promote your sites is to follow the patterns and practices of the ODP to get your sites included. You'll find an FAQ about how to add your site at http://www.dmoz.org/add.html (this FAQ is also available via a link from the ODP home page).

The ODP taxonomy (categorization system) and the sites included in the categories are freely available as data for use by anyone who wants to run their own search engine as long as the terms of the ODP's free-use license is complied with.

Google, and most of the major search engines, do use information derived from the ODP, but each major search engine uses it in their own way. With Google in particular, information from the ODP is used to form the Google Directory, http://directory.google.com.

Most significant, inclusion within an ODP category means that your site is very likely to be included within the Google Web index (as well as the Google Directory, and in other major web indices) as a high-ranking result for searches within that category.

So it's worth submitting your site to the ODP, if only because it's the best way to get indexed by search engines, including Googleand, to a significant extent, to manage how your site is categorized.

cheers

karthick chennaiseo

Find Directory | Find Relavent Directory | Web Directories Submission | Relavent Web Directories Submission

chennaiseo@gmail.com (Karthick) — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:47:00 +0000

More ways to find directories

You can use other methods to track down specialty directories. In fact, as you get to know the Internet landscape around your business, you’ll run into these directories eventually. People mention them in discussion groups, for instance, or you’ll find links to them on other Web sites. I also like browsing for these directories in the major directories, Yahoo! And the Open Directory Project. Yahoo! Directory (dir.yahoo.com) has many subcategories for directories. It doesn’t have one for rodent racing, which

Apparently gets no respect, but it certainly has directories for many other topics,

such as the following:

Snowboarding > Web Directories

Photography > Web Directories

Radio Stations > Web Directories

Arts > Web Directories

Transgendered > Web Directories

Comics and Animations > Web Directories

For some reason, Yahoo! Directory also has subcategories simply called Directories. (No, I don’t know the difference between a Web Directories subcategory and a Directories subcategory.) Here’s a sampling of the Directories

Subcategory

Travel and Transportation > Directories

Business and Economy > Directories

Reference > Directories

Haunted Houses > Directories

Ethnic Studies > Directories

Pay attention while you’r you’re working in Yahoo!, or you may find yourself in the Yahoo! Search results area rather than the Yahoo! Directory. Note the tab at the top of the page. When the Web tab is highlighted, you’re in Yahoo! Search; when the Directory tab is highlighted, you’re in the Yahoo! Directory. The best way to find the Web Directories or Directories subcategories is simply to go to the Yahoo! Directory and browse for suitable categories for your Web site. Each time you find a suitable category, search the page for the word directory to see if the page includes a link to a Web Directory or Directory subcategory. (You can also use the Search box; search for haunted houses directory,

and one of the resulting links will be to Haunted Houses > Directories.

Yahoo! currently has almost 1,400 of these directory subcategories, representing many thousands of directory Web sites. I found links to 13 directories of haunted houses (a number that one might almost imagine is intentional); 13 directories of humor sites; 9 directories of sites related to transgendering; 7 directories of sites that provide electronic greeting cards; and 6 directories of fitness Web sites.

This grossly unscientific survey suggests to me that probably almost 14,000 directory sites are listed in Yahoo! So chances are good that several may be good candidates for listing your site. The Open Directory Project also lists thousands of directories.

Again, browse through the directory (at www.dmoz.org) looking for appropriate categories, and then search the page for the word directories. Or search for an appropriate directory: golf directories, golf directory, rodent directories, rodent directory, transgender directories, transgender directory, and so on. (Yes, searching on directories and directory will provide different results.) When you find a directory, see what’s in it. Don’t just ask for a link and move on. Dig around, see what you can find, and add information to your landscape log. The directory will contain links to other sites that may also have their own directories.

Finding the Specialized Directories, Specialized Directory Submission, Promote your site by submitting in relavent Directory

chennaiseo@gmail.com (Karthick) — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:41:00 +0000

Finding the Specialized Directories

For just about every subject you can imagine, someone is running a specialized search directory. Although specialized directories get very little traffic when compar compared to the Googles and Yahoo!s of the world, the traffic they do get is highly targeted, just the people you want to attract. And such directories are often very popular with your target audience.

Here’s an example of how to search for a specialized directory. Suppose that you’re promoting your rodent-racing Web site. Go to Google and type rodent racing directory.

Hmmm, for some reason Google doesn’t find any directories related to rodent racing. Strange. Okay, try rodent directory. Now you’re getting somewhere! I did this search and found several useful sites:

The IRD . International Rodentfancy Directory: “An international listing of PET rodent breeders, shelters, vets, stores, pet sitters and more! This service is brought to you by Rodentfancy.com and the Rat and Mouse Fanciers for Excellence . . . free to your business or service’s listing to the directory!” This site’s home page has a PageRank of 5 and an Alexa traffic rank of 302,000.

NetVet’s Electronic Zoo: This is a big list of links to rodent-related sites, though mostly related to research (the Digital Atlas of Mouse Embryology and the Cybermouse Project, for instance). But with a PageRank of 6 and an Alexa traffic rank of under 5,600, it might be worth your trying to get listed. Perhaps you can suggest that your site is related to research into cardiovascular performance of rodents under stress.

Rodent Resources at the National Center for Research Resources: Hmm, this is another rodent-research site, but with an Alexa traffic rank of 284 and a PageRank of 9. Getting listed in this directory would be very useful. (Maybe it’s time to apply for a research grant.)

The Rodent Breeders List: This directory strikes me as one of those “not very pleasant, but somebody’s got to do it” things. Still, if you breed rodents for your races, you may want to get onto this list. When you do a search for a specialty directory, your search results will include the specialty directories you need, but mixed in with them, you’ll also find results from the Yahoo! Directory, Google Directory, and the Open Directory Project. If you want, you can clear out the clutter by searching like this: rodent directory -inurl:yahoo.com -inurl:google.com -inurl:dmoz.org

This search phrase tells Google to look for pages with the words rodent and directory, but to ignore any pages that have yahoo.com, google.com, or dmoz.org (the Open Directory Project) in their URLs.

Note that some of the specialty directories you find actually pull data from the Open Directory Project. For instance, I found the Rodents Directory, which is part of Directory.NET (www.directory.net/Recreation/Pets/Rodents). This directory looked very large and professional, but upon further investigation, I discovered it was using the Open Directory Project data.

You certainly want to be listed in this r rodent directory, but in order to get into the directory, you need to get into the Open Directory Project itself.

Directory Submission | Directory Submission rules | Link Submission

chennaiseo@gmail.com (Karthick) — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:10:00 +0000

Directory Submission

When submitting to directories, there is no magic formula. All directories are unique, generally having different categories and different rules for submission. Directory submission can be quite time consuming because each submission must be tailored for a specific directory. Some directories permit 15-word descriptions, some permit 30 words, and some permit up to 200 words. Therefore, when submitting your site to the most popular directories, always keep their unique characteristics in mind.

Planning a Directory Submission Campaign

Planning an effective directory submission campaign is crucial to your site's search engine visibility. In addition, in some ways, directory submission is even more important than search engine submission because, with directories, you basically have one chance to submit your site correctly. As long as a web site's directory listing is factually accurate, directory editors have no reason to modify the listing. Directory editors' main concern is not how web site owners market their web sites. Directory editors care that the information in their directory is unique, timely, and accurate.

Some directory results come from human editors who find sites through their own research and surfing. Although this is not a common occurrence, most companies prefer the opportunity to write their own titles and descriptions. So rather than risk a directory editor finding your site and writing a title and description you don't like, plan and implement your unique directory submission campaign.

In this log file, keep records of the following information:

Name of the directory
Name of the person submitting the web site
Email address of the person submitting the web site
URL submitted
Date(s) of submission
Categories selected
Web site title
Web site description
Any additional information entered in a Comments field
Relevant contact information of the company and organization, including physical address, telephone number, and fax number
If using a paid submission process, a copy of the receipt and the tracking or order number

Directories generally rank web sites by category, title, and site description. In other words, if your title, description, and category contain keywords that people are typing into search queries, your site might appear at the top of directory results. Therefore, an effective directory submission campaign involves keyword research and copywriting.

How many of you truly and honestly spend hours researching the most appropriate directory categories and writing the best descriptions so that both the directories and your site can benefit? Does your site really have unique content or does it contain the same content that all the other sites contain? Web site owners tend to write the descriptions that benefit them most.

If you plan on using the directories as part of your online marketing plan, try not to think solely about your web site. Try to imagine how a directory might benefit from your information. That is what directory editors are thinking about when they evaluate your submission. Directories do not benefit from keyword-stuffed titles and descriptions. They benefit from sites with unique, quality content placed in the appropriate categories. Thus, help directory editors reach their goals. Build a good web site and do your research before you submit.

Selecting the Best Category

One of the biggest mistakes web site owners make during directory submission is not doing the necessary research on each directory.

To select the most appropriate category for your web site, type your selected keywords in each directory's search box, and study the results."How to Build Better Web Pages?" These are the words that you should be entering in the directory search boxes.

You might want to begin with the most generic search term, such as the word "tea." When you begin with a generic search term, categories might appear at the top of the search results. In all likelihood, your site belongs in one of the categories that appear at the top of the search results.

Do not automatically select the category that appears at the very top of the search results. Your web site must truly be suited to a category to be accepted. Are your competitors listed in that same category? Is the type of information you are offering on your web site similar to the information offered by other web sites in that category? You might find that your site can easily fit in multiple categories. If this is the case, you can select the category that appears at the top of the list.

For the TranquiliTeas web site, the most appropriate category in Yahoo! is the following:

Business and Economy > Shopping and Services > Food and Drinks >
Drinks > Tea > Organic

The Open Directory displayed multiple categories that might be appropriate for the TranquiliTeas site:

Business > Industries > Food and Related Products > Beverages > Tea
Shopping > Food > Beverages > Coffee and Tea > Tea
Recreation > Food > Drink > Tea

Suggesting a New Category

Sometimes, after performing several searches, you might not find a directory category that accurately reflects the content of your web site. In this situation, you can suggest an additional category to the directory editors. To be safe, suggest a category that is similar to other categories in the directory.

For example, a particular state in the United States might display a specific category, but a different state might not. This situation arose when I submitted a web site from a domestic violence shelter located in Waukegan, Illinois. A domestic violence shelter listing belongs in a directory's regional section. In all likelihood, a person who is seeking domestic violence help in Connecticut is not going to travel to Illinois to seek an emergency shelter.


Home > Cooking > Beverages > Tea

The first two categories contain a large number of tea sites, and the TranquiliTeas site probably will be buried in the search results. It might be better to find less-populated categories. However, based on the types of sites listed in these categories, a submission to either category might be appropriate.

The fourth category is not the best category for home page submission because most of the listings specifically mention recipes. Although the TranquiliTeas site contains recipes, the majority of its content is geared toward selling tea.

Cheers

Karthick

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