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If you are interested in improving the SEO performance of your site, in addition to unique content and on-page optimization (unique content, site loading speed, menus, etc) to improve your organic keyword positions, you also need links to your site.
Of course, Google recommends getting natural links, but most webmasters know that they are almost impossible to get if you don’t have a very popular site or if you are not an influencer, a well-known and followed blogger. For this reason, a good part of what involves the effort is to attract new links to the site, through different methods.
Directory submission is still one of the most important SEO sources of links, provided that those directories are clean, up to date, not with thousands of links. Here you can see the complete list of SEO web directories that I tested!
Directories are good because they have a lot of authority, and depending on the number of sites listed, some of the authority will be transferred to your site as well.
Most quality SEO directories are paid, which is understandable because you need money to maintain a site. In this article, I will present some of the directories that I found and tested to submit sites.
I will keep this post updated as I add other sites to the list.
When you submit a site in a directory, add unique descriptions and be as detailed as possible
Even if registering the site in the directory will take longer, it is preferable to add unique descriptions and be as detailed as possible.
botw.org (Best of the Web directory)
A clean directory, with big authority, good metrics, and organic traffic, but quite expensive when it comes to listing a site. Is recommended for local sites, related to us or UK.
Basic Web Directory Listing – 149$ / year, Lifetime Web Directory Listing – $299 One Time
cipinet.com
For over 20 years, Cipinet.com has been a clean and up-to-date web directory. This directory allows FREE, Basic, Premium, and Featured submission. For Free listing, the submission time period for reviewing is about five months.
For the Basic Site submission, the Cost is Just $35 One-time fee and Review within 24 hours is guaranteed. Also, You get 10 keywords for search results and link details page. An affordable price compared to other more expensive directories.
Premium and Featured submission have more facilities, but they are much more expensive.
blogarama.com
One of the oldest web directories that only accept blogs. You have 2 options to register your blog. Free or Paid.
About Paid listing
The paid option costs $ 50 per year and has the advantage that your posts will be taken over and displayed on the first page, which means that you will receive link juice and traffic of the same type.
Indeed, each post was on the front page for a while at first, but the traffic received was not very high. maybe the featured pic of the post was not taken, I don’t know why it is not displayed. However, other blogs are displayed with the whole picture.
Approval is instant and with the paid list, your posts are displayed on the home page for a while.
The articles are taken entirely on the blogorama, with a link to the original site and I am afraid that Google will consider them duplicate content. I read about cases when blogarama pages were displayed before the original posts in Google. It remains to follow this case.
dirjournal.com
Connecting quality businesses with local, quality members. You can pay annually $59.95 for Regular Listing or add your listing permanently for 159.95$. Quite expensive when it comes to listing a site
The price for a permanent listing is a bit high in my opinion, but considering how hard it is to find a quality director, I considered this option.
1abc.org
14 Years old Web Directory. But it really looks like a site from 14 years ago and doesn’t have SSL.
To list a website it cost you Regular links – $5 / Permanent or Featured links – $20 / Yearly
The metrics are ok, the price is low, a good directory where you can list your website.
I just try to register a site today to see how the process goes. I will try again and I will come back with an update.
At this time the registration process did not work!
linkcentre.com
Another community-type director is linkcentre.com The metrics are good, a director from 1996, who must definitely be on the top list.
You can add your site FREE, but you have also several options, like Plus, Pro, Premium, Agency.
I chose the PRO option that costs $45 / year and gives you the option to submit unlimited sites, but only one is featured, meaning it will be at the top of the list in the category to which the site belongs.
The approval was made very quickly.
viesearch.com
This directory is one of the largest at the moment, with a very large number of sites and several thousand editors.
Even if you have the option to register your site for FREE, given a large number of sites and the long waiting time I did not take it into consideration and I chose the Featured Listing option with Thumbnail Image and Instant Review Before Pending Listings at $26.12.
- Paid registration does not cost much;
- It also has the option to register for free;
- With Featured Listing the site was approved quickly;
- Large number of registered sites ;
Add your directory here
If you have a paid web directory and want to list it here, please add it in the comments.