"Submit Your Website to Directories… Not Search Engines!"

Once you finished your affiliate website, the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to directories.

A few years ago, webmasters used to submit their websites to hundreds of search engines, and it was a good practice. Things are changing so fast on the Internet that search engine submission has been replaced by directories submission.

You can submit your site to free directories like DMOZ or paid directories like Yahoo directory (expensive). You should submit your site to both paid and free directories.

Beware of companies that promise automatic submission of your website to hundreds of directories. The best way to submit your website to directories is to do it yourself or to hire an expert to do it manually, by adding your site to less than fifty directories per day.

Before you begin to submit your website to hundreds of directories, ensure your websites are thoroughly designed to the professional quality using the right keywords, good graphics and pictures and relevant content.

Don’t submit incomplete websites, or websites full with pay per click affiliate programs like Google adsense. They will not be accepted. While submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide information about your website, your chosen keywords and the name and contact information of your business.

Mere submission to directories does not guarantee that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Because there are thousands of new websites coming up every day and it may take quite sometime before they take up your site for review by human editors.

Don’t forget to add a Sitemap of your website which makes the crawling easy for the web robots. Your website visitors may also refer to your sitemap if they are lost on your site.

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