How To Do Manual Directory Submission?

Providing you followed the previous steps, you will end up with an excel file containing a list of a couple of hundred SEO-friendly web web directories that are related to your web-site and you are now ready to start your manual directory submissionsYou can start surfing to the directories one by one and try to find a category that is as closely related to your website as possible; then look where you have to click to ‘submit your web-site’ or ‘create a link’ to do your manual directory submissions.

Next, a submission form will appear on your computer screen to fulfill your manual directory submission. On all those submission forms, you will have to fill in a name, a description, an URL and an email account, and sometimes some additional details depending on the directory you are submitting to.First you will study the guidelines of each directory as they have their own criteria and if you don’t follow the rules, your submission will be declined with no explanation from the editor of the directory.

Not all directories work in the same way.You will see that most of the web directories will be free of charge (although they might sometimes contain a possibility to pay anyway); the other option is to work with web directories that do charge a certain amount for submissions.choose how you wish to pay as there are a number of possibilities.Paid submissions do guarantee an outstanding service; you can expect your submission to be reviewed rapidly and you are likely to get a link on a favored position in the directory.For free submissions, it might take considerably longer to get reviewed and your website might be listed among a lot of other sites.

Once you have chosen the category and pricing there are other details to complete on the form regarding the web-site.A title is important and should preferably be short but good, releasing just enough information.If you struggle with the right length of your title; 45 characters is a good average; more than 55 characters is too long.The URL section is for your homepage.If the website isn’t complete and has no content or the domain isn’t up and running, then wait with submitting the website as it will just be declined.You can be sure to be rejected

The description field is to describe as objectively as possible what your web-site offers; web directories will reject submissions that are to promotional.It is always a good idea to use the same words in your description one might use in a search engine but again, depending on the guidelines, a directory will only allow you a certain amount of characters.

Evidently, the web directories can’t do anything if they don’t have your name and an email account.A hotmail or a gmail account is not very professional and will probably be rejected by directories; ideally, you have an email address that is connected

The process of manual reviewing is a time- and energy-consuming process; as a result, automated submissions are very unlikely to be accepted.To prevent this directories give a code that you have to manually type in to confirm your request.

If you are interested in a reciprocal link, although there is no good reason to, you can select that option in the form.This is not required but if for some reason you decide give a link back; fill out the Reciprocal URL field.In order to do this you will have to insert a link to the directory on your web-site and then paste your URL into the ‘Reciprocal URL field on the form.

By now, you should have an idea about how directory submission works and how many hours it will take to submit your website to all these web directories.As discussed before, the fact that it can take a some time before you receive a review and the different rules that are set by the different web directories can make it very frustrating, especially when you find out that not all the web-directories accepted your submission.You can always outsource your manual submissions to a professional manual directory submission service; they will do the work for you, a lot quicker than you can and at a decent price.

About the Author

Michiel Van Kets was born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium, but now living in Phuket, Tahiland. His company offers the growing amount of professional SEO-companies the cheap prices they look for when outsourcing, while the performance and so the results are guaranteed of high western quality. Read his answer to this question: Can you recommend any quality directories?