Complete List of Web Directories

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Jun 4, 2008

If you have just finished building your corporate website, submitting your website to online directories may increase your ranking on search engines and generate more page landings.

See the huge list of web directories here: http://www.definiteweb.com/list-of-directories2.htm

There are TONS of directories in that list. However, I only recommend submitting to the major ones, especially the popular search engines:

1) Google – http://www.google.com/addurl/

2) Yahoo – https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

3) MSN Live – http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx

4) Open Directory – http://www.dmoz.org

You should also invest in submitting your website into the Yahoo! Directory. It will cost you $299USD but it’s well worth it! It’s the YellowBook of the internet! Since we’re on the topic, make sure to submit your business in local business directories as well. YellowBook is a must considering it’s popular and FREE.

Peter Kao

linkdor web directory

I wouldn't say that submitting to web directories is worthless, it's another inbound link for your website, which would help you to get higher in the search engine results :)
Peter Kao

It's still beneficial to send your URL to search engines in the beginning to have search engine spiders come your way as soon as possible, even if it comes 1-3 days earlier.

The paid Yahoo! Directory can actually help quite a bit since there are big directories that uses Yahoo's paid directory.

Also, forgot to mention this in the blog post but Business.com is an excellent place to add your URL.
Michael Fagan

I wouldn`t even bother with any of that. The major search engines will all pick up your website as long as there are some links to it from websites they already index. Go ahead and submit to DMOZ although it doesn`t have much value these days. I wouldn`t bother with Yahoo, but that`s just my opinion and it depends what your site is. Any of the other general directories are worthless, although specific directories for your industry are good.

Also Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all have ways in which you can claim your own websites and manage and view how they are being indexed, and that is worth doing.

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