After you have built a website and optimized it by tuning its meta tags to the best, it is the time to get it submitted to major search engines and directories. So, that your site gets indexed by the search engines and the directories. There are lot of confusions in submission to search engines and web directories. Here, I would try to clear this confusion. A close study of search engines and web directory will sure help to solve this confusion.

search engines
When you submit your website to a search engine, it reads your site meta tags, looks their relationship with the contents, indexes you website and assigns a rank to your site according to the algorithm it follows. Here, you should understand that by submitting your site to a search engine does not mean that you will start getting high traffics just after its submission. This simply means that now the search engine knows about your site and its pages and would place you in its SERP (Search Engine Result Pages) according to your rank in its index.
You must have read very often about the offers for submitting your site to thousands of search engines for a fee, no matter small or big. No doubt that there are really thousand of search engines on the web but most searches are routed through a few major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, alltheweb etc. If you submit to these search engines alone, it is really enough to get noticed in the search engine world. I am giving their site submission URLs and little info about their strategies.

Google
Add your URL to Google.
They ask you to submit your top level page and have pretty easy to understand instructions for submission. Google updates its index normally once a month.

Yahoo
Yahoo! Submit Your Site.
They have two options free and paid. Free listing takes about 30 to 45 days. However paid listing assures a quick listing of your site.

MSN
Live Search URL Submission.
MSN in routine picks new websites having good inbound links. So if you have good inbound links, your site will be picked for listing in MSN even if you don't submit your site to them.

AOL
You can not submit to AOL directly but if your site is indexed by Google, AOL will most likely include your site in its index too.

Web Directories
Web directories are different with respect to search engines. A search engine uses its algorithm to index and rank a website through its regular crawling process whereas a web directory is defined into several categories and subcategories where it contains the websites submitted. In this way a web directory is considered an expert index of sites. Here you select a category and subcategory for your site and submit your site to it. Visitors come to brows a specific category in a directory as per their interest. This ensures that your presence in a specific category will attract a targeted visitor. Most of the search engines use these directories to update their data. This also increases your chance of getting high rank with search engines.


These directories can be classified into free directories and paid directories. Normally, free directories take comparatively more time to list the submitted sites. Whereas the paid directories list the submitted sites instantly. Some good free directories are DMOZ, Yahoo!, World Wide Index, AbiLogic, Gimpsy, JoeAnt. However, good paid directories can be named as Arielis, BOTW, BlueFind, Microsoft bCentral, and GoGuides.


Before submitting your site review your site thoroughly and make sure that your site has no broken or dead links. Write a suitable description of your site to put into the description field of submission form. Search thoroughly the categories and subcategories before selecting the category for your site. They normally offer you to suggest one if you don't find a suitable one.



No doubt, submitting your site to major search engines and good rank directories help increasing the traffic and good placement in SERP (Search Engine Result Pages). Submission to good directories is something which ensures this goal.


Article Author: Prashant K Shukla
Article Source: Deposit Articles

Here is a list of 2500 free web directories. The list has just been updated.

We have already discussed about the trick of getting indexed by sites like aboutus.org, Now this time we gonna learn how to get indexed quickly on Search engines using backlinks, Lets start
1) Find some Do-Follow blow having same niche as yours.
2) Find a post in the blog with high PR
3) Make a good comment(No Spamming :D)

Use a Keyword Relevant Post Title
Make sure to use your keywords in the post title. For example if you are making a topic on Link Building make sure you have the keyword Link Building in the title of your post also.
Use Keyword in alt and Image Titles
Make it a habit to insert an image in almost each post of yours and give an alternative text for each image. For example if you are making a post on Link Building insert a image related to link building and add alternative text to it : Link Building.
Build Quality Backlinks
As soon as you see you are going down in Search Engine Ranking Position. Don’t panic! Most people panic and get someone hired to check whats going on. I’d say stay calm and just concentrate on quality backlinks slowly slowly your will gain back your Search Engine Ranking Position.

Can you share your free Australian web directory? I really need it badly... :(

Hi all,
I have started this topic to list all classic directories which have loads of good functions and layouts

I have some below please share your also

Super Links World
Kahuki Web Directory


thanks

Four news free directories

MediaDir Directory
MediaDir Directory

DPN Blog Directory
DPN Blog Directory

DPN Travel Directory
DPN Travel Directory

DPhosting Directory
Dphosting web directory