The benefits of having your website submitted to search engines and directory listings include increased exposure, more traffic, and better indexing by the spiders from major search engines such as Google. This all translates into more targeted clicks, or people coming to your site because they are looking for what your site offers. This in turn makes your site more successful at what it does best, be that sales or providing information.
When you submit your site to an SEO site, they perform what is called search engine optimization, or SEO, which organizes your keywords into a logical pattern that makes it more likely that your site will be listed in the top of the results for searches on your keywords. This may not seem that helpful at first, until you realize that often times a search for a popular keyword can return tens of thousands of results - and most people are only going to look at the first couple of pages before refining their search words and searching again. If your site shows up 85th on a list, it may as well not even be there, because very few people are going to scroll through that many results.
Directory submission sites submit your site with its keyword list to a large number of directories and smaller search engines, which by itself gives you a lot more exposure, but also provides better results in the major search engines. For example, Google explains that they rate a site partly by how many other sites in the world have links pointing back to that site. For this reason, having your site listed on hundreds of smaller directories actually increases your chances for a top listing on Google, among others.
Directory submission services often perform some SEO functions, and SEO sites often perform some directory submission functions, and many sites do both automatically. You can also perform SEO funtions yourself, or submit your site to hundreds of directories yourself, but this is extremely time consuming, especially the first time when you have to hunt down all the directories. Sites that perform these services have already done the homework and have an automated process that does all these functions in a moment's time, instantly listing you in hundreds or sometimes even thousands of sites across the web. While not perfect, it does help, and all the hits you get after submission are free.
|
Comments submitted from other visitors |
More posts, Page # :
