What is exactly a web directory? If I were to define it in layman’s terms, I would say it’s a bunch of links categorized by topics. Yahoo! Directory can serve as an example: http://dir.yahoo.com. The original purpose of the web directories was to provide human-edited quality content. A person would go and search a web directory for the sites he or she is interested in but only in a particular area, e.g. business, accounting, etc. But do you ever visit a web directory to search for something? Your answer would probably be never or rarely. There are exceptions but we’ll get back to them later. 

Web directories found a new meaning when Google, the largest search engine on the Internet, introduced its algorithm, which relies heavily on backlinks for ordering its search results. The more links a particular site has going to it, the higher the site ranks in the search results. Now, one thing I want to mention is that not only the quantity of the backlinks matters but quality as well. Actually, quality is even more important than quantity, and having both makes for a great combination. Another important factor is that other search engines started to rely on backlinks as well.

At the time of this writing we are rejecting close to 70% of the submitted websites to our web directory. Please read the guidelines below in order to make sure that your website is accepted. If you are still not sure, either contact us or go ahead and submit your website. Should we reject it, you will receive a full refund.

Ok, the top 5 reasons…

1. Non-English website.

If your web site is in language other than English, we will only accept your site if you have an English version, i.e. you allow your site visitors to switch to English if they wish to do so.

2. Content That’s Not Unique

If your website is just a clone of another website, we will not accept it.

3. Link Farm

We will not accept link farms. If you don’t know what a link farm, is let me explain. A link farm is a bunch of unrelated links, with sometimes hundreds of links on a single page, and this type of websites usually have very little content of their own.

4. Too Much Promotional Language

Do not use promotional language in your listing. It’s ok to use keywords but please don’t say “The best”, “the cheapest”, etc. Your website will either be rejected or we will re-write your listing.

5. Don’t Submit the Same Title and Description to Our Directory

We are looking for unique content, so please don’t use the same title and description for submission as you might have for other directories.

Please follow these guidelines and go ahead and submit your website.