This is a tip for designers and for anyone who is marketing their site. It is essential to increase your ranking and chances of being found by the search engines. It is something you will have to pay attention to and revisit regularly as there are so many local, national and worldwide directories. Your first visit should be DMOZ.org. Following this submit to the local directories and those specializing in your sites business sector.
The next visit would be the Yahoo! Directory. It is a web directory which rivals the DMOZ Open Directory Project in size. It is recommended that every business have a listing in the Yahoo! Directory.
The other directory to be sure to list in is the ZoomInfo directory.
Read this blog article for more information about why it is important for your company to be listed in online directories such as Yahoo! Directory and DMOZ.
If you are a web designer and would like to submit your work to web design galleries. These directories such as Beauty and CSS Elite feature work of many talented designers and ask visitors to comment and rate each design. If people have a chance to see your work through those sites, they many become regular visitors to your site and eventually turn into clients.
One of the most important measures for a website is how many other sites link to it. The more links the better. Having links to your website from authoritative resources on the Internet helps you rank higher in search engines since these links are an indication that your website is trustworthy and contains good content.
Alexa is an online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the Internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings. If your site is not currently ranked by Alexa it could be because it is relatively new or if the traffic level is not high enough to place it in the top million or so sites.
The other directory to be sure to list in is the ZoomInfo directory.
Read this blog article for more information about why it is important for your company to be listed in online directories such as Yahoo! Directory and DMOZ.
