Hi, please can anyone expalin, how submitting my blog url to a directory will help? How it will help me?
Submitting to directories will increase your backlinks which in turn will help you in better search engine rankings and also PR
A directory submission helps your website to gain increased traffic and exposure. Directory submission is one of the most vital ways to build incoming links to a website. Directory submission will not only improve the rankings of your website in Google but will also improve the Search Engine Result Page. DON.
I submitted my site to about 1000 directories from directorycritic.com I think it's called. I went from PR1 to PR3.9ish. After next update, I'll for sure have a PR4 maybe 5.
From directories you can get theme based back links which helps in ranking, building backlinks.Also you can drive traffic from directory listings and it is cost effective way of getting backlinks.
directory submission i think is most important for getting backlink from a page which is most relevant to your website - hence se's can associate you with right keywords
well, to get backlinks , of-course. It will help you with some visitors, also, but not so much. But, take your time and read those topics also, they are related exactly to what you are seeking for : Is submitting to directories a must? How many directories should I submit? Is it really worth the time submitting to directories? Directories really worth? Traffic from directories?! Why don't I bother with listing into thousands of dirs?! All those topics are presented here : Directories - Everything you want to know about them Enjoy !
Well backlink is like a VOTE More VOTES more better As Backlinks from GOOD PR websites are counted as MORE WEIGHTED by GOOGLE