In any web marketing efforts, SEO practices should be done with utmost care. You must not overlook any tips on performing link building tasks. If you’ve done it wrong, you get failed.

Online directories are the online version of yellow pages, containing the website links and descriptions. They contain website listings that are categorized according to genre or field. Some are automated while others are human-edited.

It is recommended that when choosing an online directory where your website will be submitted, the page rank should not only be the basis. There are three other important considerations in deciding which online directories you should choose.

1. Choose online directories that are human-edited. The distinction between automated and human-edited online directories is determined after the process of submitting your site. When your site is automatically listed, that is automated. When your site is not automatically listed, and it takes 3 to 7 days to be approved in the listing, it is human-edited.

2. You have to check if the website listings are categorized by relevance. There are other sites that appear like online directories because there are categories in it. But checking randomly, some of the sites that are put under a specific category are not related to where they are placed. For instance, a website that sells fashionable apparels are listed under Search Engine Optimization category. Online directories with messy categorizing are not really directories; they are link farms. When your site is listed in link farms, your site will be banned by major search engines

3. Never attempt to submit your site to directories which link URLs have “no follow” tags. Your effort to submit in those sites would only be a waste. Though you are getting visibility (most of the time is not guaranteed), you are not getting any inbound link. Search engine spiders do not crawl on links with “no follow” tags in the URL.

Online directory submission is a must being one of the effective SEO campaign activities. It must not be taken for granted.

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