Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ'S)

Q1. What are Directories ?

A. Directories are human-edited search properties. All the submissions done in a directory are reviewed manually by human's and compiled into different categories, so that every site gets submitted in its own relevant niche. Due to this fact, links coming from directories are considered to be very relevant, focused and topic specific source of valuable information.

Q2. What are the Benefits of Directory Submission?

A. Nowadays, directory submissions have become an important part of any search engine optimization (SEO) program. Listing your site in various directories, gives your site a great boost in your search engine rankings and helps your site in coming in the top results of all major search engines out of which main ones are google, yahoo and msn. This becomes even more important for site using a high level of Flash, images and having a small amount of content for the search engines to index. A great way to get good one-way links is with our directory Submission service.

These are some other Great Benefits of Submitting a Site into a Quality Web Directory:

• They help in attaining unique and relevant back-links for our websites, therby increasing the link popularity of a site.
• They help in generating quality traffic for our websites.
• It's the most fast and affordable way of getting one-way links for your site.
• Directories even help in getting our site, quickly indexed in various major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
• They also help in getting high google Page Rank (PR).
• They also assist a website in getting high search engine rankings.

Also, Search Engines give good preference to sites listed in some good directories like DMOZ, Joeant, Jayde and many more. This is due to the fact the sites listed in these directories are reviewed by human editors with good experience, search engines think that the site must be having relavant and quality content (which people are searching for).

Q3. How do directory links help in improving my search engine rankings?

A. 'Links are the main deciding factor for your Search Engine Rankings. And you know that One-Way Links are the best ones in Links (links which directories provide). Search Engines spiders daily visit various online directories searching for new listings. So, the more directories you are listed in, the more hits you get thereby helping you attain better search engine rankings. So, obtaining various inbound links in quantity aswell as quality can really help influence your search engine rankings.

Q4. What are the characteristics of good directories?

A. Some of the Great Characteristics of a Good Web Directory are:

• Good Web Directories provide free submissions.
• Editors review the websites and actively add Web sites.
• Large number of Web sites already submitted in each category.
• Large number of pages already indexed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
• Large number of backlinks in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
• Low Alexa ranking.
• Good Pagerank on pages.

Q5. How does your service work?

A. Its very Simple, Here's a Simple Step-By-Step Guide:

Step 1: You order for a directory submission service, while you are asked to fill-up your basic site details including upto 5 titles and descriptions for your site, preffered categories you want the submission to be done into, keywords that you want to be used for directory submission.

Step 2: We will send you a confirmation mail, telling that we have recieved a directory submission order from your side with a payment link according to the payment type you chosed (PayPal or 2Checkout).

Step 3: After that you make a payment via PayPal or 2Checkout, and then a confirmation mail from PayPal or 2Checkout would be there about recieving of funds.

Step 4: We will be starting the Directory Submission for your website, which you submitted with us.

Step 5: After completion of the directory submission, we will be sending you FULL REPORT about the directory submission order in a Excel Format, containing the URL's of websites we submitted your website to with URL's of the categories also on which your website was submitted.

Q6. How will I know whether my sites have actually been submitted?

A. Most of the web directories send an email telling that your site has been submitted, to their web directory and since we will be entering your email address, so you will recieve all those emails.

Q7. If I submit to 500 directories, does that mean I'll get 500 links?

A. Well, we cannot take any guarantee, that all of the sites that we will submit your site to, will publish your link since there are lots of factors determining the submission process which are not in our control. But we will try our best, to do everything that directories like to make sure that you link gets approved at most of the sites. We have specialized staff for directory submission link building who will carefully read the guidelines for individual web directories and then submit your site to them.

Q8. What is the cost of submitting my site and is it a one-time or a recurring fee?

A. The cost of submitting to your site is $0.30 per directory, i.e. for 100 directory submissions the total cost would be $30. Yes, this is just one-time submission fee for a specific directory and a specific site, and no recurring fees are involved.

Q9. What are the payment options available? How can I pay?

A. Payments can be made via PayPal or 2Checkout.

Q10. Do you offer any discounts for bulk submissions?

A. Yes. We do offer great discounts for bulk submissions. The pricing has already been reduced as the number of directories increase in your order. And also apart that YOU GET A FREE SUBMISSION for every nine paid submissions that you order.

Q11. How will slow submissions help me in achieving high rankings?

A. Getting lots of not so trusted links (directory links) in a very short span of time, is very unnatural in eyes of search engines, and they may apply strict filters over your website. By mass submitting your website quickly in web directories, you are hurting your link profile. So, submitting your website slowly will make your website achieve One-Way links in a natural way.

For more details about this, refer to our guide to slow directory submission.

Q12. Are all the directories in your list SEO Friendly?

A. Yes, all of the directories in our free directory list are completely SEO friendly and we ensure that all of these directories provide you a DIRECT One-Way link to your site. We keep on updating our directory list and if any directory does not meet our submission criteria, they are removed from our list permanently.

Q13. How many directories on the list give static links, not redirect?

A. All of them give STATIC links.

Q14. Can I see the list of free directories?

A. Ya sure, why not!! Here is the complete list of free web directories, on which we will be submitting your site to.

Q15. Do you submit all types of sites?

A. Yes, we submit all types of sites to web directories. Only the case in which we are NOT submitting websites is your website belonging to categories like : Adult, illegal sites or sites spreading hatred or are non-English sites. We can submit Gambling sites, but the rejection rates for such type of sites are greater than any other site.

Q16. My site isn't new, can I exclude some directories from submissions?

A. Yes, why not!

Q17. How long does the Submission Process take?

A. Normally we revert back after submitting your site within 4 business days from the date of your payment, unless and until you are ordering a bulk order.

Q18. How do you ensure that my site is accepted in the directory?

A. We have expertise staff, having 4+ years experience with directory submissions. So, we know what the directory editors are looking for, and we submit the directory in the way they look forward. Also, before submitting any website, we do read the submission guidelines of each and every website, to ensure that we are not submitting in a way not entertained in the terms and conditions of that particular directory.

For instance, if a particular directory has a condition requiring only 'Official Title' to be submitted upon, we will use only official name for your website as a title. Also, another major part, which helps a lot in getting the website listed in a directory is the category we choose. If we are not choosing proper category for a particular site, the editor of the directory would reject our site, so we need to make sure that we are going in the right direction.

Q19. Are directories bad neighborhoods?

A. While some directories may be part of a bad neighborhood based on their practices, over all directory are not considered as a bad neighborhood. But we have develop quality list, keeping in mind all types of factors which will ensure you good and quality directory submission, and would surely help you attain high search engine rankings also.

Q20. What the benefits of submitting in directories with higher Page Ranks (PR)?

A. The Higher the Page Rank (PR) of a Directory, the higher is its value in terms of search engine's. These directories (especially those with a PR of 4 or more) are generally considered to be as "good directories" and most of them tend to be SEO friendly, hence an overall good directory. In fact, submitting your website to a directory having high valur of PR, protects your website from "The Bad Neighborhood" effect.

Q21. Is it worth submitting to new web directories having PR 0?

A. Yes, why not, it would never hurt your site's search engine rankings, but if and only if done in the proper manner as we have discussed earlier too (slow directory submission). These web directories will help you in gaining more and more backlinks every week (as you know One-Way Links are the best) Obviously, PR of most successful directories will rise with time, so don't worry about it much, you just think that you are getting One-Way backlinks to your site absolutely free, without paying anything.

Q22. How do you report me about Directory Submissions for my Website?

A. You will be recieving email notifications, directly from the web directories about your submission process (about 30-40% of directories send confirmation mails) since we will be using your email address only for directory submissions. Not all directories will be sending you email notifications.

Upon completion of directory submission for your website, we would prepare a report for the complete Directory Submission in an Excel Format, which would be comprising of the URL's of web directories we submitted your site to. Also there will be exact URL's of category in which the actual submission has taken place, so that you can keep this report in your records and if at any point of time you need to know to which all directories your site has been submitted OR Is the website really listed or not? - you may refer to that report.

Also, as the submissions are 100% manual, we will be providing you screenshots for all the submissions that we will be doing, to ensure you that we have really done directory submission for your site i.e if you have ordered a directory submission service for 100 directories, then you will be getting a total of 100 screenshots.

You will be getting the initial directory submission report in a maximum time of 6 business days of your date of payment. After that, you will be getting monthly submission reports, if you have subscribed for the monthly submission service.

Q23. How long after the submission, does it takes for my links to show up in Directories?

A. This totally depends on directory to directory. Some directories are fast enough that they may approve you link in a couple of days, while some may take it a few weeks to approve and some (not so good directories) even take couple of months to approve your site to be listed in their directory. But, if you have a quality site, then afcourse the approval rate and time, would be very high. Sorry, we don't have any control over directories, as when they will be putting your link up.