Directory submission

[Magenta]

Hi

I've submitted a new website to search and browse directories and was wondering how long it generally takes to be added?

 

[neilhaboush]

Hi

I've submitted a new website to search and browse directories and was wondering how long it generally takes to be added?

It all depends on where you've submitted it to.
Some can take 1 week and others can take 6 months.

If you paid the fee it'll likely be a 24 hour review.

 

[GMTGuy]

The most popular.oldest directory is dmoz and they manually approve submissions so it can literally take years or you may never be approved. Others as neil mentioned can differ in time frames, personally though I think investing in social networking, blog commenting etc...are much more effective these days than directories. Directories can even be harmful to your site if google starts calling them "link farms".

 

[stoffa]

Hi

I've submitted a new website to search and browse directories and was wondering how long it generally takes to be added?

Days / Weeks / Months / Never

The effectiveness of directory submission as an SEO target is questionable to say the least. Focus instead on producing great content that is unique, informative, relevant and highly shareable.

 

[Softology]

create an xml sitemap and leave it at www . yourdomain . com / sitemap.xml and submit that sitemap to search engines. DMoz is for PR3 + only so if your site is PR3 + it will be listed free, if below 3 then there is no light at this end of DMoz.

 

[guaranteedconstruction]

yeah it definitely depends where you subbed it, ive been doing it a bit and sometime its instant and sometimes its up to like 6 weeks

 

[Lemans]

Every directory have their own rules, just read them and you will know how much time they need to do review.
Most high page ranked directories need much more then month to add you, some of them need even 6 months.
If you pay your site will be listed in 24-48h.

If you add your website to DMOZ (and follow all "how to add website" rules) they will review your listing form 1week to several months (there is no rules for this).

Cheers

 

[WebDesignerGuru]

Really depends chap, all i will say is don't take up the offer of recipricol linking in exchange for a listing in 1to2 weeks. either pay for the listing (not expensive normally) or do the free link which usually takes a while

 

[seojohn]

Directory submission is not valuable around this time,google admits that they love sites having social impact.

 

[Chief87]

Pretty much agree with all the above. Directory submissions are fine but you could probably spend your time better writing a good article and blog!

PS. I have a list of free directories (around 300 I think) somewhere if you want them...I only used a handful but bookmarked it just to have.

 

[dana franklin]

I've heard that directory submission does not drive traffic to a website that much.

 

[johnphilip2880]

Directory submission is one of the off page technique which helps to increase the ranking of the website.It is mainly performed to increase the page ranking.

 

[aditipatil]

Scope of doing Directory submission:
-Help in getting Good quality of back links to our website which leads to increase in getting traffic to our website.
-Help in increasing the Page Rank of our website.