Website Directories - Some people who know what these are will be thinking, but these are not any good, far from it.

This can come under Backlinking but I tend to think that submitting your site to these Website Directories early on will not do your site any harm at all.

It can look more natural and you do not need to use any software to do this.

Just be sensible on How many you initially submit to and do not forget to make a list of where you have submitted your website to.

There are both Free and Paid for Directories but all I tend to use are the Free ones.

The best Free Directory List I have ever come across is from Directory Critic and they currently have,

7512 Free Directories

For you to enter your website to.

The scariest thing I have come across is that people actually charge for supplying just a list of 500.

Have fun and just remember to add only a few a day for example, no more than 10 per day for a week.

As you create more content and add to your website then add to a few more.

Since the latest Penguin Updates it is better to be more cautious than throw everything you possibly can at a NEW WEBSITE!

Cheers

Neil




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Shawn Martin Premium
I have the WP HTML sitemap installed now on my site. SHould I dump it and use the Google one?
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Neil Little Premium
Yes, because it is a lot easier to use once setup.
Notifies the four main search engines everytime a new post is made.
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TJ Books Premium
I just did this with a dozen sites with no problem at all. After you install, don't forget to activate Google XML Sitemaps. Thanks again BigMan Neil. John
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Neil Little Premium
Have done that myself as well, forgot to activate, because I had the Postman arrive at the door.....lol
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TJ Books Premium
Neil, Thanks! I have just been blogging and then sending to the social sites but I've wondered how I could do more. I know that the blogs are sent to ping-o-matic because WordPress indicates that (somewhere). John
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Neil Little Premium
Your welcome John.
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Nicely Done & Very Easy To Understand. Thank you
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Neil Little Premium
Your welcome.
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David_S Premium
This is excellent training Neil. I actually did the directory submissions when I started the site and used last pass to fill out the forms which save alot of time going to each directory,
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Neil Little Premium
That is okay using Last Pass, but Ididn't mention this because using the easier options can tempt you to post your site to loads of directories and on a new site this is not a good thing to do.
Google is paying more attention to anything that looks to be automated.
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David_S Premium
yes I mentioned that as a time saver, but hopefully people know slow and easy wins the race.
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