SEO Friendly Directories: Important Guidelines

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Optimization of websites or web pages is most significant for all webmasters, and it is continuous struggle to get a rank in search engine. Inbound link is considered as one of the important factor for giving your site a good rank in search engines. There are different types of methods which you can consider during approaching for one-way link. Among all techniques, directory submission is the most efficient one for new sites. If it is not a SEO friendly directory, then people do not get any incentive for submitting their websites to the web directories.

Index based links are very worthy for current search engines. Hence, it is necessary to submit your links in different quality directories. SEO friendly directories help you to get good rank by linking to your site. There are thousands of directories, but some of them are considered as quality directories. There are some directories which are known as spammy directories and if you submit your sites in these directories then your total effort may be meaningless, because search engine will stay away from devaluation of your website. If you submit your site to SEO friendly directories then you can get good page rank in search engine’s result pages (SERPs).

A SEO friendly directory means the listed pages where the links listed are easily spiderable by search engines and can be scanned by search engine robots as well. As a result of which the links at the pages can be cached and a certain page value (Page Rank) can be assigned.

SEO friendly directories improve the page rank of the listed websites. If a directory fulfills all the requirements of the clients, then there is a greater chance that the directory will be appreciated to get the submission of quality sites and can charge certain amount for the listing.

There are certain criteria of SEO friendly directories; some of them are discussed below-

• Use plain HTML links.
• Putting links with a meaningful anchor text can be a best SEO friendly linking.
• Use Mod rewrite because mod rewrite makes a dynamic link to be rewritten in a static form and therefore makes the link spiderable by search engines.
• SEO friendly directories contain sitemap because sitemap helps the search engines as well as visitors to navigate different pages of a particular website.

• Redirect links.
• Use of no-follow and nonindex tags.
• Put too many links in one page
• Use Mod rewrite
• Use sitemap

All the points discussed above are helpful to select a good SEO friendly directory. It will ultimately help you to get good search engine ranking in major search engines.