The greatest challenge for new Web sites is getting noticed.
It’s estimated that over 3,000 new Web sites go live every day. That’s a lot of noise you’ll need to be heard over.
Thats why Web Directories are so handy.
The Net is awash in them, by the thousands. Yahoo! started it all, with handy lists, arranged by categories, of Websites large and small. Then Google and MSN and dozens of other search engines came along and consumers got used to looking in directories for relevant Web sites.
Now those very same search engines scour the thousands of other Web Directory sites out there, making note of the sites listed there. Those links are then calculated by the search engines for listing Websites of that category.
And those so-called organic search results are what gets your site listed for consumers searching for information specific to the niche of your site.
When posting a listing to a Web Directory, here are five tips:
1. Look for free listings. Many sites will try to get you to pay for a listing. A paid listing means nothing more than a free listing to a search engine. If you can only get listed on a directory...