Directories are Extremely Important for SEO Purposes by JaxWorks SEO & Web

Oct 20, 2009 6 related
 

Directories should play a major role in your search engine optimization efforts (well, at least the big and important ones) for the following reasons: Listings within major directories provide “context” to search engines. For example, if your web site is listed in the Open Directory Project under the category Pets -> Weird Pets -> Blue Cats, search engines will assume your web site has something to do with blue cats. Your web site and pages will be indexed faster and might have a better ranking in search results for specific terms (in this case, “blue cats”). Major directories (such as Yahoo! Directory, ODP, Jayde etc.) have high page ranks and as long as you obtain a non-reciprocal listing from them, paid or unpaid, your page rank will benefit greatly. Major directories are often replicated by other web sites (think of ODP,... [read full story]                    

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