Online Money

The way to make your website receive hundreds, or even thousands, of visitors every day is to get it well established out there on the Internet. The best way to do this cheaply, or even for free, is to submit to popular directories. This is an important first step. Building up your link popularity is essential to developing a good relationship with the major search engines. To do that you need to establish as many inbound links as possible, preferably from highly respected directories such as the Open Directory Project, and from websites and directories related to your target field.

Many Webmasters establish links by emailing other Webmasters with websites of a similar theme to ask for a link exchange. This is one way of gaining links, but less effective than it used to be because these days search engines see a two way link and do not treat these as positively as one way links.

Submitting to directories is a good way to get one-way inbound links because you don't necessarily have to reciprocate. The one-way link carries more weight with the search engines than if you linked back to the same site. Therefore submitting to the best directories can give a huge boost to your sites ranking and is well worth the effort needed.

There is no easy way to submit to directories other than going to each one directly and dealing with them one at a time manually. There used to be software you could use to do the job automatically but the directories did not like this because of the huge amount of spam submissions they were getting, so the only way you can get into the directories worth submitting to these days is manually one at a time.

Below I have given you a list of the best lists of directories on the net, places you should start in order to find the directories to consider getting your website indexed with. It's up to you to decide which interest you and which don't, but I hope it will save you many many hours of searching:

http://www.freelinks.com/

http://www.isedb.com/html/Web_Directories/

http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php

http://www.directory-pages.com/

That's about as much as I can help you with for now. I hope you have found the information useful and inspiring, and if you do go ahead and start your own Internet based business, I hope it will help lead you to a successful, enjoyable and profitable future.

Good luck.