Top Free Web Directory List

Update 18th Nov, 2013: Throughout 2013 the number of directories on this list has been evolving in an ever diminishing circle. Many directories have converted to paid review models or been abandoned. I no longer believe this list will return to 100 directories and I refuse to pad it with less quality directories just to make up the numbers. So, to that effect, I have removed the misnomer. We've re-calculated rankings for the list which is now at 71 free directories. The free general directories on this list have been certified SEO friendly via our strict selection criteria.
The Alexa Rank and PageRank, which are determined by Alexa and Google respectively will contribute very little to the actual ranking on the list and will be used to break deadlock rankings so that we have definite individual ranks for each directory. Thus you may see PR3 directories sitting above PR6 directories, and you may see 100,000 AlexaRank directories sitting above 50,000 AlexaRank directories. (NB: Toolbar PageRank has been officially broken since Feb, 2013 and Google has given no date at which it will be fixed, if ever).
If you are wondering why the free directories like DMOZ and JoeAnt are excluded from this top free directories list it is because they have established themselves as trusted resources in the industry after a number of years of stability and recognition and for that fact we have placed them on their own exclusive Trusted Directories list.

Sr #		Directory Name	Directory URL			.	Alexa Rank
1		Directory Fire	www.directoryfire.com				19,393
2		A1	www.a1webdirectory.org				10,831
3		So Much	www.somuch.com				7,624
4		SEO Directory World	www.seodirectoryworld.com				63,854
5		Synergy Directory	www.synergy-directory.com				14,814
6		Nexus Directory	www.nexusdirectory.com				16,797
7		Best Free Websites	www.bestfreewebsites.net				23,328
8		Web World Index	www.webworldindex.com				12,335
9		9 Sites	www.9sites.net				18,878
10		MasterMOZ	mastermoz.com				16,346
11		Daduru	www.daduru.com				50,569
12		Direct My Link	www.directmylink.com				15,676
13		Link Pedia	www.linkpedia.net				21,522
14		1 ABC	www.1abc.org				18,010
15		Pro Link Directory	www.prolinkdirectory.com				13,338
16		Tsection	www.tsection.com				14,451
18		Elite Sites Directory	www.elitesitesdirectory.com				20,264
19		Suggest URL	www.suggest-url.net				20,818
20		Scrabble Stop	links.scrabblestop.com				27,916
21		Info Listings	www.info-listings.com				16,464
22		Luton Engineering	www.lutonengineering.com				30,826
23		Business Seek	businessseek.biz				19,449
24		PR3 Plus	www.pr3plus.com				26,076
25		Tech4on	www.tech4on.com				24,356
26		1 Webs Directory	www.1websdirectory.com				17,023
27		W3 Catalog	www.w3catalog.com				17,321
28		Submission 4 U	www.submission4u.com				23,220
29		The Web Directory	www.the-web-directory.co.uk				21,119
30		WWWi	www.wwwi.co.uk				26,599
31		Gain Web	www.gainweb.org				14,778
32		10 Directory	www.10directory.com				22,641
33		EZ Web Tools	directory.ezweb-tools.com				53,633
34		Link Dir	www.linkdir.info				49,265
35		Wikid Web	www.wikidweb.com				44,597
36		SEO Free Links	www.seofreelinks.com				58,738
37		The Net Directory	www.the-net-directory.com				41,536
38		Inteligent D	www.inteligentd.com				53,516
39		PC Graphic Solutions	linkbook.pcgraphicsolutions.com				36,035
40		The SEO Links	www.theseolinks.com				60,597
41		Bubbleplex	www.bubbleplex.com				45,486
42		List Your Website	www.list-your-website.com				60,586
43		URL Moz	www.urlmoz.com				50,736
44		Find Sites	www.findsites.net				45,257
45		Free Web Directory (.biz)	www.freewebdirectory.biz				57,980
46		All Business Directory	www.allbusinessdirectory.biz				35,160
47		Best Directory Sites	www.bestdirectorysites.com				50,075
49		Autopilot Directory	www.autopilotdirectory.com				36,456
51		Sighber Cafe	www.sighbercafe.com				101,858
52		Pedsters Planet	www.pedsters-planet.co.uk				93,892
53		2.0 Websites	2.0websites.com				96,307
54		Elite Answers	www.eliteanswers.com/directory				96,026
55		Web Friendly Dir	www.webfriendlydir.com				103,725
56		Popular List	popularlist.com				108,536
57		A Directory	www.a-directory.net				116,669
58		SecWh	secwh.com				74,622
59		Link Nom	linknom.com				72,845
60		FirmPay	www.firmpay.com/directory				65,537
61		Zindexica	www.zindexica.com				190,462
62		Directory Sphere	www.directorysphere.com				56,046
63		Helpedia	directory.helpedia.com				109,388
64		EZ Article Search	directory.ez-article-search.com				211,927
65		Submit Website Link	www.submitwebsitelink.com				191,115
66		Free Directory (.ca)	www.freedirectory.ca/website_directory				265,914
67		The Aegis Solutions	www.theaegissolutions.com				542,540
68		Ace Web Directory	www.acewebdirectory.com				20,938
69		Deep Links Directory	www.deeplinksdirectory.co				32,123
70		Directory Websites	www.directorywebbsites.com				48,715
71		Online Society	www.onlinesociety.org				16,408

52 Free Web Directories for Building Backlinks

52 Fully Functioning Free Web Directories

Directory Name	Directory URL	PR
Dmoz Jayde Scrub The Web So Much 1 Abc 1 Webs Directory Amray Directory World T Section 9 Sites Business Seek Cipinet Direct My Link Directory Fire Elite Sites Directory Free Website Directory Gain Web Nexus Directory PIseries Pro Link Directory R Directory Suggest Url Synergy Directory Wwwi Link Book Scrabble Stop 10 Directory Best Free Websites Inteligent D Link Pedia Pedsters Planet PR3 Plus Submission4u Tech4on The Net Directory The Web Directory Leading Link Directory Nipao SEO Free Links Suggest Site Wikidweb XY Link Directory Answer Spots A Million Sites Vie Search Dir4UK PRweblink Seouplink Directory Books Digg Directory Royal Link Up Dmoz	dmoz.org jayde.com scrubtheweb.com somuch.com 1abc.org 1websdirectory.com amray.com directoryworld.net tsection.com 9sites.net businessseek.biz cipinet.com directmylink.com directoryfire.com elitesitesdirectory.com freewebsitedirectory.com gainweb.org nexusdirectory.com piseries.com prolinkdirectory.com rdirectory.net suggest-url.net synergy-directory.com wwwi.co.uk linkbook.pcgraphicsolutions.com links.scrabblestop.com 10directory.com bestfreewebsites.net inteligentd.com linkpedia.net pedsters-planet.co.uk pr3plus.com submission4u.com tech4on.com the-net-directory.com the-web-directory.co.uk leadinglinkdirectory.com nipao.org seofreelinks.com suggestsite.net wikidweb.com xysyst.net answerspots.com amillionsites.com viesearch.com dir4uk.com prweblink.com seouplink.com directorybooks.com diggdirectory.com royallinkup.com dmoz.in.net	7 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

I hope this list is helpful to your own backlink building efforts

SEO Considerations for New or Improved Websites

Search is still the No. 1 way users find a website, and astronomically so. As such, it’s an important consideration when embarking on a new business venture to think about re-launching an existing site, purchased from a marketplace like Flippa, or to create a new business from scratch.

If you’re simply worried about SEO, the truth is, each scenario has its challenges and benefits. There is no unequivocal rule of thumb that one is better than the other. To determine what’s best for you, examine the list of requirements for each undertaking, and make an informed decision about how to proceed. Below are the most critical considerations for launching a new web business, or revamping an existing site with an overhaul.

SEO Requirements for Brand New Sites
Launching a squeaky clean new website has a serious draw. Imagine the joy of a clean slate, the chance to do everything right out of the gate.
Yet the pressure is immense to get it all done successfully on Day 1. There is so much to consider, it’s easy to drop the ball on any one given focus. To make sure your SEO efforts are aces right from the start, follow these tips:

1)   URL Structure — Be 100 percent sure you’re compliant with your URL structure; this is one part of your site that is a nightmare to change in the future. Obviously, your website name is crucial; be descriptive, avoid special characters, and the more keywords you use the better. Furthermore, avoid creating site sections like blog.website.com — instead, keep your core content within a normal domain structure; blogs should always be at website.com/blog. The same goes for key navigation segments.

2)   Set-Up Your Webmaster Tools — Don’t wait until long after launch to create a webmaster account with Bing and Google. Have this in place straight away, and alert them when you site is live.

 3)   Keywords, Keywords, Keywords — The very moment you’ve decided on a company name, URL, and brand strategy, kick your keyword research into high gear. Then apply these phrases throughout your site in organic and natural places within the text. Yes, images are always important to a website’s aesthetics and appeal; words, however, are still king in SEO, so make sure your copy tells the story of your company with highly targeted keyword phrases.

4)   Double Check Title Tags and Descriptions — These should also be laden with your core keywords, and be fully optimized at launch.

5)   Get Marketing Materials Ready Pre-Launch — Have all your social media profiles good to go, as well as the first couple of marketing campaigns locked and loaded. Start sounding the alarm about your business the moment you feel it’s stable and ready to receive the attention it deserves. Do not wait to handle marketing efforts once you’ve launched the site; you may miss some golden opportunities to start strong.

6)   Test Site Performance Metrics — Be extremely meticulous in the first few weeks about monitoring performance. This includes ensuring your robots.txt sitemap is complete and functional, redirects are performing correctly, all URLs are legitimate (no 404s), you have zero indexing errors, and that all your core pages have appropriate load times.

7)   Benchmark Your Rankings — Once you launch, create an immediate benchmark for your key rankings, and don’t forget to include your company name as well. This will give you a baseline to study SERPs going forward. Set goals early on as well, and methods to create these successes, as a means to be proactive about forward movement.

SEO Considerations for a Website Re-Launch
If you choose to rebrand a site instead, many of the steps above remain the same. There are additional items to include as well — use the list below as your foundation.

1)   Create a Pre Re-Launch Baseline — Just like Step 7 above for new sites, before you make any changes to the existing site, measure all appropriate metrics so your starting foundation is crystal clear. As you determine your new keywords, see how the site ranks for those before you make your changes; this will make it much easier to see how you’re improving things during the re-launch.

2)   Map all Old Pages to the New Ones — Assuming you’re changing the site structure, make sure to move all desired content correctly, or you can do some serious damage. Create a flowchart that maps old URLs to new ones, and follow it religiously. Even if you decide to delete some pages, these should redirect to a page on the new site.

3)   Make 301 Redirects Throughout Your Site — The 301 “permanently moved” redirect is your friend when it comes to moved pages. This is the only reference that will not hurt your SEO rankings.

4)   Update all Marketing Campaigns — You’ll want to update all social media profiles and marketing materials with your new branding images and language, if appropriate. If you’ve developed a new logo, make a list of all places you’ll need to update this, and do so as soon as you re-launch. Don’t confuse consumers with dual branding, or let old marketing campaigns linger.

5)   QA Thoroughly — Once you re-launch your site, it’s crucial that you test all components completely, in all major browsers, devices, and operating systems. Don’t assume your site works as it did before — test things like redirects and core functionality to make sure visitors aren’t encountering any errors.
Whether you choose to start from scratch or to improve upon an existing brand, there are many tasks to cover to ensure great SEO rankings from the start. Remember that if you re-launch a site, it’s completely normal to experience a significant dip in SERPs for the first few weeks; this should improve greatly in a month or so if you’ve covered all your bases.

Website Design - Top Ten Ways To Identify A Quality Design And Development Firm

An effective website attracts customers to your business, generates sales leads and closes sales - multiplying your profits in the process. Professional web design firms must combine uniqueness and innovation in design with state-of the-art technology and maintenance support to create a powerful website that produces results. Before hiring a web designer, consider the following ten factors: 1. Effective Web Designers communicate well Experienced web-designers support multiple modes of communication for interacting with their clients. These include phone, email and live chat. Depending on your requirements, you can use the communication method that suits you best. 2. Website Design Budgets Should Focus on Results Effective web-design teams often combine the method of flat fees with hourly billing for software design and installation. It is never advisable to enter into open-ended billing relationships with Web designers until the maintenance phase of the project. 3. Smart Web Designers and Developers Make Billing Easy An experienced web-design company usually charges twenty to fifty percent of the project fee in advance, and accepts payment through checks and major credit cards. 4. A Web Design Company Shares Its Work Professional design companies encourage their designers to maintain portfolios representing their best work, client information and testimonials. You can request portfolios to assess the effectiveness of the company’s web design solutions. 5. Flexible Website Designers Use Time Saving Technology Quality web design teams support the use of inexpensive and time saving technology. This includes open source publishing and e-commerce tools like WordPress for handling Weblogs and corporate information pages, osCommerce for online shopping features and Zope for building customized content management and customer interaction tools. These tools enable businesses to achieve professional standards while saving time and money. 6. Efficient Web Design Professionals Blend Stock and Scratch sources Efficient website designers always maintain a set of stock templates and images to speed up work. When designing a website for a client, they select an appropriate stock template and customize it from scratch to meet client-specific requirements and ensure uniqueness and freshness in design. 7. Intelligent Web Professionals Distinguish Design and Hosting Many website design firms offer complementary and low cost Web-hosting solutions, usually as part of their maintenance packages. Quality firms provide excellent uptime, reliability and service. Compare the cost and benefits of an in-house hosting solution and an independent web-host before making your decision. 8. Creative Website Designers Let Clients Handle Minor Updates Experienced Web designers develop architectures for Websites including publishing platforms that simplify the process of making changes. These plans are so effective that they allow you to make minor updates in-house or with the help of a less expensive Web professional. These web designers often save their skills for launching or re-launching websites and major revisions requiring considerable work on design, templates and graphics. 9. The Best Web Developers Understand Standards and Accessibility The designed website should comply with both web standards like standards for interface design and browser accessibility, and state and federal guidelines such as providing accessibility features for the visually impaired and people suffering with other medical insufficiencies. Experienced Web designers should also ensure SEO optimization of your website and prevent it from become inaccessible and unusable. 10. A Good Web Design Company Gets Honest about Rates and Turnaround Time Even the most efficient Web designers can combine only two of the three features (High quality, speed and low cost) when designing your web-site. Professional web design teams will provide you accurate estimates about their rates, speed and turnaround time. Firms that are more expensive often have smaller waiting lists. If sufficient time is available, you can get a high quality website at a lower cost. Select a Web design firm that meets your requirements. Focusing on Results sets Premier Website Design Professionals Apart Effective Web designers comply with all of the above-mentioned practices. More importantly, they make clients feel comfortable about wading into unfamiliar waters. The right Web design firm can enable your business to save thousands of dollars and valuable time. About the Author: Daljeet Sidhu is Co-founder at TradeSeam. See guide to hiring web site development firms. Compare web design services quotes. Sellers JOIN for sales leads. Source: http://www.isnare.com/ Permanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=422286&ca=Internet

How to Rank High in Search Engines Result Pages (SERP’s)

Studies have revealed that 90% of Internet users find websites through search engines and out of those users, 90% do not go past the first 30 results displayed. With this in mind it is easy to see why it’s important for your website to rank high in these results.

Search Engine Results Pages (SERP's) are the pages you see after you type in a search on Google or other search engines and click on the Search button. Because 90% of people use search engines to find what they are looking for these SERP’s are the most important pages on the internet.

The Search Engines Result Pages (SERP’s) can be broadly divided into two categories: “Organic” or ”Natural” listings and Paid Advertisements usually bought on a "Pay Per Click" (PPC) basis.

Roughly 80% of clicks at Google occur within the organic listings not the PPC listings. This is why is it important to get your site to rank naturally in the search engine result pages. Getting your site to rank high is not tricky; it’s just a matter of optimising your website to be search engine friendly. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of engineering your website so it can be properly read by the search engine spiders. SEO is pretty much common sense, search engines are text analysis systems so if your webpage is full of images with little text your site will not rank high. You need to target each keyword/phrase on different pages. So if you want to target the search terms “business plans” you need to have one page with the title “business plans” and lots of text about “business plans”.


To me this is just common sense but then I have been working in the SEO field for a number of years. However it never ceases to amaze me why people still call their home pages “home” or have their business name on the title of every single page of website. The owners probably search for their business and are pleased when it comes up first in Google. This is only good for the customers that know your company which is fine for large brands like Argos or Amazon but if you’re trying to get customers from for internet users you need to optimise your text for the search engines.

The other aspect of getting high SERPs is trust and authority. It is kind of no different than any other business trying to gain trust and a good reputation. Forgetting the cyber world for a moment, in the real world established businesses have much more clout that new start up businesses. Like your favourite restaurant. If a new restaurant opened up just down the street you might not want to chance eating there and stick with your favourite restaurant. Now if you hear that its gaining a good reputation for good food you might then decide to try it out yourself. The same can be said about websites except the trust you get is via an algorithm. The more links you get from already established trusted (authoritive) sites the more Google will trust you. It makes sense really, because a good website will not link to a rubbish or not relevant website.

Another aspect of trust is by doing things with the search engines terms and conditions. This means building links naturally and using keywords excessively. Adding 500 pages in one day is not a naturally progression, search engines like websites to expand naturally, anything else and their warning lights flash which means they might look into your site and possibly penalise it.
So the only way to obtain high SERPs is to do everything the search engines like. This means building websites that are easy to navigate (so users and the crawlers can find every page easily), have lots of good relevant interesting content and plenty of trusted links. Make your website the best site on the internet in your chosen niche and you shouldn’t go far wrong.

About the Author: Carolyn is the webmaster of Search Solutions Ltd, experts in obtaining High Search Engines Results.

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Link building for effective search engine optimization

When you begin the task of acquiring quality and relevant backlinks to your website there are many factors that can increase or decrease your search engine rankings. This article outlines the difference between good and bad backlinks.

A quality backlink pointing to your site should be in the same category and relevant in content to your website. The page where your link is located should be indexed by Google and the page should also have a Google page rank. The webpage where your link is located should also contain no more than 30 other out-going links to other websites. Link pages with more than 30 out-going links are less relevant to the search engines. Having your link posted on this type of webpage can affect your search engine rankings in a negative way. Other excellent techniques of acquiring backlinks are directory submissions, posting articles, blogs and forums.

For directory submissions select the proper directory category and take a look at how many other websites are contained in the category where your link would be posted, if you can manage to get on the first or second page of the listings, this is a quality backlink. Also look at the Google page rank of the landing page for your link. If the page has a Google page rank this is also a quality backlink.


Stay within your category, relevant content is very important to the search engines. Write an article preferably relevant in content to your website and submit the article to high quality article directories. Blogs are an excellent way to get quality one-way backlinks, Blog sites also receive tons of traffic, which in turn give your site more exposure. Posting your link on forum pages is also an efficient method of aquiring backlinks instantly.

Backlinks to avoid would be a zero page ranked webpage, especially if the home page has a zero page rank. Links posted within framed webpages which will also steal your traffic. Especially avoid link farms, webpages which contain more than 100 unrelated outgoing links, This type of link page is frowned upon by many major search engines. Avoid Webpages with mirror sites containing the exact same content with a different URL, also pages that utilize redirects and URL cloaking. Never post your link on a webpage that contains a "no follow" or "no index" robots meta tag within the source code. Dynamic websites with question marks in the URL should be avoided because they are not always indexed by the search engines.

Avoid posting your link on a page that opens very slow or contains mostly ads and flash banners. Try not to aquire or purchase great numbers of backlinks in a short period of time, backlinks should be accumulated gradually. Also avoid webpages and directories that list their results in alphabetical order, as their database increases your link could be moved to a less relevant page with less pagerank. Quality backlinks are one of the most important factors involved in the process of acheiving high search engine ranking.

Author Bio Article written by the CEO of http://www.submit-site.org/ Article Source: http://www.articlegeek.com/

Popular 2011 SEO Tools

There are a number of popular SEO tools available online that will make your work much easier. The SEO experts will advise you about these effective tools that will solve your problem areas. The first and most important tool is Google Analytics.

This is a free tool that gives you an easy solution to analyze the traffic of your website. You can track your site and find out the number of page views you have received in a particular time frame. You can also find out the length and depth of visit and the geographical location of your visit. The three SEO elements covered by Google Analytics are search traffic, search keywords and content performance.

Alexa toolbar is very useful for internet users. This is widely used by many webmasters for many years due to its ability to measure the performance and popularity of a website. Alexa is able to give you accurate results up to the top 100,000 sites existing online.

Another great tool that helps you to find out the right keywords for your site is KeyCompete. You can determine the keywords of your competitors easily. This could be obtained through their PPC programs. This is an online tool with lots of useful features. No one can overlook the usage of this tool to find out the appropriate keywords for their sites.

You can get information about your competitors and receive reports about their performance in major search engines like Google and Yahoo through the SEO tool SEOmoz. This helps you to find out what your competitors are doing and help you to keep track of their progress. Knowing these things will help you plan your future moves accordingly.

This also helps you in site error detection, traffic tracking and keyword research. IWEBTOOL has many tools in one that covers most areas of SEO. The great feature of this is the Google PageRank Prediction. This predicts the ranking in Google. This gives account of the links a domain has and measures the speed of the website. With Website Speed Test you can find out the time taken for site loading.

Widexl helps you to locate pages that are linked to your site. This feature has a meta tag analyzer that helps you to analyze the meta tags, page loading time and keyword density. You can check the links of your site on six search engines and make comparisons among competitors with another great tool of Widexl, Search Engine Saturation.

The SEO tool, Link Diagnosis helps the website owners to examine the link competition. This provides main details about eh links of the competitors. You can get details about anchor text, page ranks, etc. The Link Diagnosis runs only in Firefox browser.

SEO Logs is a combination of many free tools for SEO like Web Page SEO Optimizer, Keyword Difficulty Check, Backlinks Analyzer Tool, HTTP Headers, Domain Age Check, Alexa Rank Comparison, Adsense Profit Calculator, etc.

This helps you to measure the difficulty of keywords to get ranked in search engines. It also can detect the faked Pagerank and give PR value results. With these popular SEO tools you can optimize your site easily.

About the Author: If you want to learn more about various SEO tools you have to contact a up to date, professional SEO company.

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