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If you have a website or are planning on having one, then you will be concerned about SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Historically, web programmers and content writers have used clever and some ill-advised methods for optimizing their site with the search engines. Some examples were strategically placed keywords and metatags. Others embedded a keyword hundreds of times within the pages HTML. Search engines have found these out, and they have marked and even de-registered those websites that do these. Because the need to drive web traffic continues, developments were made, such as the web directory.
There are literally thousands of directories, ranging from specific topics to broad coverage of a top 10 or 20, to some sites that are so comprehensive they have over 1000 categories and subcategories.
Is there an advantage to a comprehensive site? Won't the vast number of categories confuse people? The internet has made us a group of information junkies. We know that we can have more information than we can read, but we like having the choice of seeing it and choosing what we will use. Many people who do searches don't know how to do it efficiently.
Since you are the website manager, you want top billing in front of your potential visitor. Search engines pull sometimes millions of hits and the searcher soon is overwhelmed and tired of the list. If you don't appear on the first two pages, then the search engine may not be that good for you. When you list on a directory, you can be in a smaller list in your category. This makes it better for you because searchers would be able to find you faster since you are under a category and because you don't have a million others with you on the list.
Can a directory listing affect your search engine position? Yes! For one, you now have another location in which you can be picked up by the search engine, and it recognizes your frequency.
Hey, if you're going to have a website, you might as well do it right.
There are literally thousands of directories, ranging from specific topics to broad coverage of a top 10 or 20, to some sites that are so comprehensive they have over 1000 categories and subcategories.
Is there an advantage to a comprehensive site? Won't the vast number of categories confuse people? The internet has made us a group of information junkies. We know that we can have more information than we can read, but we like having the choice of seeing it and choosing what we will use. Many people who do searches don't know how to do it efficiently.
Since you are the website manager, you want top billing in front of your potential visitor. Search engines pull sometimes millions of hits and the searcher soon is overwhelmed and tired of the list. If you don't appear on the first two pages, then the search engine may not be that good for you. When you list on a directory, you can be in a smaller list in your category. This makes it better for you because searchers would be able to find you faster since you are under a category and because you don't have a million others with you on the list.
Can a directory listing affect your search engine position? Yes! For one, you now have another location in which you can be picked up by the search engine, and it recognizes your frequency.
Hey, if you're going to have a website, you might as well do it right.
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