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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ'S)




Q1. What is a Directories ?

A. Directories refer to human-edited search properties. Each submission done in a directory is reviewed manually and compiled into various categories, so that each site gets submitted to its own applicable niche. Due to this, links from directories are believed to be quite relevant, focused as well as topic specific source of important information.

Q2. What are the Advantages of Directory Submission?

A. These days, directory submissions have come up as an important component of any search engine optimization program. Listing your website in different directories, provides your website a huge boost in your search rankings and helps your website in coming up in the top search results of all the major search engines, of which the main ones are google, msn and yahoo. This gets even more significant for website using a big level of Flash images as well as having a little amount of content for search engines to index. One amazing way of getting good one-way links is through our directory Submission service.

The following are some other Amazing Advantages of Submitting a portal in a Quality Web Directory:

  • It helps in getting unique and relevant inbound links for the websites, thereby improving the popularity of a portal.
  • They help to generate quality traffic for the websites.
  • It is the fastest and the most affordable way of having one-way links for your portal.
  • Directories even help in having the site, quickly indexed in several major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo..
  • They also help to get high google Page Rank.
  • They also help a portal in getting high search rankings.

Also, Search Engines provide good preference to websites listed in certain good directories like Joeant, DMOZ, Jayde and several others. This is because, the websites listed in these directories get reviewed by human editors; and search engines feel that the website has relevant as well as quality content.

Q3. How do directory links improve my search engine rankings?

A. The main deciding factor in your Search Engine Rankings is 'Link. And a One-Way Link is the best Link. Search Engines spiders everyday visit several online directory searching for latest listings. Hence, the more directories you get listed in, the more visits you get, helping you in attaining better search engine rankings. Hence, getting various inbound links in quality as well as quantity can really help to improve your search engine results rankings.

Q4. What are the features of a good directory?

A. Some of the major features of a Nice Web Directory are:

  • A good Web Directory provides free submissions.
  • Editors review these websites and add Web sites.
  • A large number of Websites already submitted in every category.
  • A large number of pages indexed already in major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo.
  • Large number of inbound links in major search engines.
  • 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 service, while you are asked to fill-up your email address

Step 2: You would then be leaded to the Payment Gateway, where you can make the payment using any of the three most popular credit cards usin- PayPal. Then, you would receive an confirmation email from us at the email you provide while with a link to the order form, where you need to fill your site details including multiple 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.

After we successfully receive the payment, we will again send you an confirmation email for successful payment received.

Step 4: After that, we will be starting the service Submission for your website, which you submitted with us.

Step 5: After completion of the submission, we will be sending you FULL DETAILED EXCEL REPORT (With ScreenShots), containing the URL's of links we submitted your website to with URL's of the categories also on which your website was submitted along with the PR of these links.

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

A. Most web directories send a confirmation email stating that your website has been submitted and this way, you will know, whether your website has been submitted or not.

Q7. In case of submission to 500 directories, do I get 500 links?

A. Well, it cannot be guaranteed, that all the sites which we shall submit your website to, shall publish your link as there are number of factors which determine the submission process that are beyond our control. But we shall try our best, for doing everything which directories like for ensuring that your link gets approval at most of the websites. We have dedicated staff for directory submission, which will carefully interpret the procedure for individual web directories as well as submitting your site to them.

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

A. The cost of submission of your website is $0.09 per directory, so for 100 directory submissions the entire cost would be $9. This is just a one-time fee for a particular directory and a particular site, and no recurring fee is involved.

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

A. Payments can be made via PayPal (where all major credit cards are accepted).

Q10. Do you provide any discounts for bulk directory submissions?

A. Yes. We definitely offer wonderful discounts for bulk directory submissions. Contact us by using our contact form in case you have a few bulk orders with you.

Q11. How would slow submissions help me to achieve high rankings?

A. Getting a lot of links within a very short period of time, is considered quite unnatural by the search engines, and they might apply strict filters for your website. With mass submission your portal quickly in directories, you are damaging your link profile. Therefore, submission of your portal slowly would make your site get One-Way links naturally.

Q12. Are all directories in the list SEO Friendly?

A. Yes, each directory in our directory list are fully SEO friendly and we make sure that all such directories provide you with a DIRECT Inbound link to your portal. We keep updating our directory list and in case any directory doesn’t meet our criteria for submission, they are permanently removed from the list.

Q13. How many directories in the list provide static links, not redirect?

A. Each directory provides STATIC links.

Q14.May I view the list of free directories?

A. Yes sure, why not!! You may have a peek at a sample list of the free web directories, on which we will be submitting your site to.

Q15. Do you submit every type of sites?

A. Yes, definitely, we submit all kinds of sites to the web directories except adult, illegal sites or sites which spread hatred. We may submit Gambling sites, however, the rejection rate for such kind of sites are more than any other portal.

Q16. My site is not new, can I exclude a few directories from submissions?

A. Definitely, why not!

Q17. How long does the Submission Process take?

A. In normal cases we revert back after submission of your site within four business days from your date of payment, unless you are making a bulk order.

Q18. How can you ensure that my website is accepted in a directory?

A. We have qualified staff, having extensive experience with directory submissions. Hence, we know exactly what the editors are searching for, and we submit a directory in a way they look forward. Apart from that, before submission of any website, we read the submission guidelines of every website, for ensuring that we do not submit in a way which is not entertained as per the terms/conditions of that directory.

For instance, in case a particular directory carries a condition which requires only 'Official Title' for submission, we shall use only official names for the website as a title. Another major part that helps a lot for getting a site listed on a directory is the category that we select. If we are not selecting a proper category for a site, the editor of a directory would decline our site, so we are required to ensure that we are moving in the appropriate direction.

Q19. Are directories bad neighborhoods?

A. While a few directories might be part of bad neighborhood as per their practices, overall the directory is not said to be a bad neighborhood. However, we have developed quality list, while keeping in mind all the kinds of factors that would ensure quality directory submission for you, and would definitely help you in attaining high search engine rankings as well.

Q20. What the advantages of submission in directories that have higher Page Ranks?

A. The Higher the rank of a Directory, the greater is its value in regard to that of search engine's. Such directories, particularly those with a page rank of 4 or more are usually considered to be a "good directory" and most of them are SEO friendly, therefore an overall nice directory. As a matter of fact, submission of your site to a directory with high value of PR, saves your site from "The Bad Neighborhood" syndrome.

Is it worth to submit to a new web directory with PR 0?

A. Yes. It would not hurt the search engine rankings of your site, but if done in the right manner. Submission of your web portal in a wrong manner even in case of a PR 5 web directory may hurt your link profile. Such web directories shall help you to gain more and more inbound links every week. Obviously, PR of most of the successful directories would rise with time, so do not worry much about it, you simply think that you are having One-Way backlinks for your portal totally free, without paying an extra dime.

Q22. How do I get reported about Directory Submissions for my Web portal?

A. You shall be directly receiving email notifications, from web directories about the submission process since we shall be making use of your email address only for the purpose of directory submissions. Not all the directories would be sending you notifications through email.

On completion of the directory submission for your portal, we shall prepare a report for complete Directory Submission in Excel Format that would comprise of the URLs of the web directories that we submitted your website to. Also there would be exact URLs of the category in which actual submission has been done, so that you may keep this report for your records and in case at any point you are required to know as to which directories your portal has been submitted to, or, is the site actually listed or not? - you can refer to such a report.

Also, since the submissions are totally manual, we shall be providing you with screenshots for all submissions which we shall be doing, for ensuring you that we have actually done directory submission of your website i.e in case you have requested a directory submission for 100 directories, then in that case, you shall be getting a total 100 screenshots.

You shall be getting the first directory submission report within a maximum of six business days from the date of payment. Thereafter, you shall be getting submission reports on a monthly basis, if you have requested for monthly submission.

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

A. This entirely depends on the directory where the submission is being done. A few directories are quick enough that they might approve your link in a few days, while some might take a few weeks for the approval and some may even take a couple of months for approving your site to get listed in their directory. However, in case you have a quality portal, then of course the approval rate as well as time, would be quite favorable. Sorry, we do not have any control over the directories, as to when they shall be putting up your links.

For any other queries, kindly fill our contact form, and we would be there for clearing up your doubts within 24 hours.

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