Posted on Friday, 28th August 2009 by admin
Free Directories are difficult to monetize and they get 100s of submissions per day. Editors are quick to reject submissions and you have to keep that in mind while submitting to free directories.
Approval depends on a lot of factors, some of them are below:
– Selection of title (are you using too many commas in title? Are you using repeated keywords?)
– Description (is it a description written in third person narrative or it’s a string of keywords or it’s a sales pitch)
– Category (typically loans / insurance categories see a lower level of approvals)
– Email used (if you use gmail or yahoo accounts for submission you can expect slightly lower approval rates)
– Adsense / affiliate links on site (if you have a lot of pop up ads or adsense units, quality directories won’t accept your submission)
– Your website’s PR (unfortunately some directory owners think PR2+ websites are quality websites and they only approve those)
Hopefully if you keep the above mentioned factors in mind, your approval rate can increase.
Tags: Directory Approval, Directory Rejection, Effective Directory Submission
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (15)
September 1st, 2009 at 7:20 am
I reject submissions to my directory all the time because I want to build a genuinely usefull directory, while a lot of people submitting their sites don’t care about the quality – they just want a free backlink. There are so many badly written submissions that I don’t even bother rewriting them (unless the website itself is outstanding).
I hope you don’t mind me linking to it, but I’ve recently written an article about what exactly I look for in a submission. You can read it at:
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Write-the-Perfect-Web-Directory-Submission&id=2774768
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I totally agree. but gaining a backlink is the whole and sole purpose of directory submission? the tips you have mentioned here are really useful and its sad to see how commonly people make such mistakes.PR is not the benchmark to measure the quality of a website which directory owners should understand.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Personally, when I get a rejection, I would like to know exact reason why my submission was rejected. Most directory scripts don’t even let admins choose a reason for rejection. I also believe some directory owners are just using the ‘free submission’ part to get traffic but they only approve paid links.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:42 am
Actually , I always prefer to submit in new directories which don’t have lot of submissions at the moment as I know from my personal experience that how hard is it to check all the submissions when you get 100s of submissions daily without anything in return
September 8th, 2009 at 11:33 am
@James: Good point. I also like submitting to new directories. You might want to checkout GetLinksPro’s monthly submission service for submission to new directories.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:43 am
I think that the best time to get accepted into free directories is when they advertise it either in forums like DP, adsense,etc. At this time the webmaster of the directory is quite interested in receiving submissions to increase his database and hence has usually a higher acceptance rate! Well that’s my 2 cents!
Thanks
September 9th, 2009 at 2:52 am
@Dave: I guess that’s the best strategy. Submitting to new directories only makes sense because there is very high chance of approval.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Directory managers will reject your submission outright if your description includes flowery language or marketing phrases. Use third-person language and be as objective as possible. Likewise, avoid keyword stuffing. This will also get your submission rejected immediately.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
@James I like the idea of submitting to new directories but how do you find them? I know that the likes of Yahoo/Bing/Google generally have the sites in their index but it’s take some real digging to find them. Any tips on getting hold of the new directories (apart from very targetted search phrases
).
Thanks.
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:43 am
Emails used is one great valid point. I myself have experimented using free emails while submitting my domain and it never got accepted in certain directories I have shortlisted earlier. Once my friend suggested that the email you are using to submit must be from the same domain you are submitting and that will increase your acceptance rate. I considered his advice and I saw few of those directories accepting me. Thanks for this reminding people with this tip again.
Regards,
Mack McMillan
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October 27th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
If the comments made are not that sensible and the directory is just for the sole purpose of getting back links, I suppose that’s just few of the reasons why I would be deleting such. Moreover, rejecting crappy remarks may be a tedious task but in the end, it would still be beneficial.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:54 am
I think it is only fair to the directories that these questions are asked. it bugs me though that some only allow a particular PR as that means that new sites cannot be added and it is dependent on how often Google updates their PR
November 1st, 2009 at 11:55 am
Thanks for these tips. Directories that actually moderate submissions and have some quality standards make better links. I want approved in these types which means submitting correctly.
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November 5th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Frankly, the vast majority of links submitted to free directories are poorly formatted. And there is little incentive for a free directory owner to sit and edit submissions. I think this reason alone accounts for the high rejection rate.
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February 10th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Wow, i had no idea these directories were judging your site based on your Google page rank, that’s really lame. I do submit my sites to directories but use software to do it. I think i might drop in on these directories more often and see if my site is listed.. Thanks for the tips!
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