Free Directory Submission – Obtain High PR Backlinks

If you own a website then I’m sure you know the importance of obtaining backlinks from high PR sites. If you’re not aware of this, then listen up. It’s important to get as much free organic traffic from the search engines as possible. One indirect way to do this is through free directory submission.

There are literally thousands of web directories available for you to submit your site to. Some are obviously better than others, and you’ll want to focus on the high PR directories. Getting backlinks from high PR directories will not only increase your PR (Page Rank), but also increase your search engine rankings.

This means more traffic to your site. I’m always searching for ways to get more traffic from the search engines. It’s the lifeblood of any website or internet based business. As I was searching I came across a site with a huge list of high PR web directories to submit my site to. Some I have heard of and already have my site listed there, and others I haven’t.

I’ve been going through this list the last couple of days and making use of the free directory submission. Some directories require a payment, and others require a reciprocal link. I’ll settle for a reciprocal if I have to, but I opt not to when possible. I also don’t pay to be listed. There’s plenty of free directories to go around.

You can view this list by going to High PR Directory List. Now the point here is not to get traffic from the directories, although you might get some. The point here is to build backlinks to your site from high PR sites. When it comes to traffic and ranking well in the search engines, especially Google, it’s all about the backlinks. The more the better.

So do your website a favor and make good use of free directory submissions. Once approved, you’ll have built more high PR backlinks to your site and should see your site slowly moving up in the search engines. Remember to use your keywords in the Title of your submissions.

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23 Comments

Ste from free iPod Touch says:

June 23, 2009 at 3:34 PM

Nice find, a great list like this is always useful.

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Alan Mater
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@Ste@free iPod Touch, Most definitely. Anyone looking to build more quality backlinks to their site should make good use of this resource.

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Josh from Alpha Men says:

July 2, 2009 at 9:04 AM

Links from directories may matter somewhat, but the best way to get links is to post unique quality content, often. Search engines love it and people will link to you because they like what they read.

Nice blog

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Alan Mater
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@Josh@Alpha Men, Hi Josh, welcome to my blog. Yes, creating unique, high quality content is important. But, posting that same quality content to article directories can help even more. It’ll attract traffic from the directories and boost your rankings. Consider it as extra exposure for your business.

Thanks for the compliment.

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David Hopkins says:

July 5, 2009 at 8:45 PM

Cheers for the link to the directory list. Shall do the rounds on those later

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Alan Mater
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@David Hopkins, Sure thing, David. Glad you found it useful… I sure did!

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Jenny from Leadership says:

July 10, 2009 at 7:38 AM

Directory submissions – definately worthwhile – but very hard to find the right submitter for a good price!

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Alan Mater
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@Jenny@Leadership, Hi Jenny, welcome to my blog. You’re right, it’s very worthwhile. As far as a submitter, I do all of my submissions by hand. It’s time consuming, but free.

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John McRae says:

July 10, 2009 at 8:18 AM

Hi Alan-
Thanks for the list. I submit to several sites each day and I have not seen several of the sites mentioned.
Thanks again
John

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Alan Mater
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@John McRae, Hey John, sure thing. There were quite a few I never saw before as well.

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Thomas Hosley from The Fastsize Extender says:

July 16, 2009 at 8:30 AM

Recently I heard that directory submissions are not much useful nowdays except a few authority directories. what is your thought on this?

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Alan Mater
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@Thomas Hosley, Hi Thomas, thanks for visiting my blog. You’re right, they don’t have much weight anymore if you’re thinking of DMOZ or the Yahoo Directory. However, they’re still backlinks, and finding authority or high PR directories is going to help to some extent. As with anything, it should be a small part in your overall link building strategy. I wouldn’t discount them completely.

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Dan says:

August 4, 2009 at 12:45 AM

Thanks for the great list. It’s true you want to focus on high PR sites and weed out those directories with little PR value. Directories with very little PR can actually damage your rankings as Google often views these sites as link farm bages and often bans them.

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Alan Mater
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@Dan, Welcome to my blog and thanks for commenting. I agree, some directories provide no value at all. There are many linking networks that you don’t want your site to be listed in for sure. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Trina from dual slide compound miter saw says:

August 21, 2010 at 5:36 PM

Oh great! Thanks for that list! This is really a big help for me.

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Alan Mater
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@Trina@ dual slide compound miter saw,

Glad you found it helpful, Trina, and thanks for commenting!

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W Russell says:

October 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM

How important do you think link sharing is? I have a blog, is it important to get backlinks by sharing links with other blogs, or are there better ways?
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Alan Mater
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@W Russell,

Good question! Sharing links don’t have a whole lot of value, at least to Google. I still do it occasionally depending on the site.

To build links, I recommend article marketing, blog commenting, forum posting, social bookmarking, guest blogging, web 2.0 marketing and getting links from high PR sites.

You may want to also check out this blog post, and at the end I link to some blog posts where I talk about how to get backlinks to your site.

Thanks again, and hope to see you around.

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Jay Johnson says:

March 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM

Great tips bro. Getting backlinks can be so time consuming but its a must when trying to rank high in search engines.

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Alan Mater
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@Jay Johnson,

Absolutely. Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it.

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EA from indexing backlinks says:

July 20, 2011 at 10:35 PM

ranking from search engine is not just building backlinks and backlinks and backlinks, it should be accompanied with proper on page optimization.
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Brian from denver condos says:

August 24, 2011 at 4:10 AM

Building quality links has become very important and I agree with you that techniques like blog commenting, forum posting, social bookmarking, guest blogging, getting links from high PR sites…etc. Those running websites should read this post, its loaded with information.

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