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Directory Submission Guidelines
These guidelines have been broken down into the 7 aspects that most editors would look into with regards to your submission:
Title
Description
Keywords
Category
Url / Domain
Site Content
Email
There are many directories, though, that accept titles with keywords to describe the site. In such cases as well, there are a few points you should keep in mind when writing your titles:
The title should be relevant to the purpose of the site and aptly describe (in a few words) what the site is about.
The title should be meaningful and not just contain a list of keywords.
The title should not be too promotional and read like an ad text, instead it should be as objective as possible.
The title shouldn’t be too lengthy (anywhere between 20 to 50 characters is usually fine).
THE TITLE SHOULD NOT BE IN ALL UPPER CASE.
Avoid the use of an exclamation mark ‘!’ in the title.
Avoid repetition of keywords.
Avoid words like ‘best’, ’leader’, ’cheapest’, ’greatest’ or any other exaggerated adjective.
Do not submit your website to the Website Link Directory if...
It is under construction.
It is an affiliate program.
It contains nothing more than links to third party websites.
It advertises, promotes, or contains links to other website properties and/or third party affiliations that promote the service of automatic site submissions to hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of search engines, directories and/or FFA's/link farms.
It advertises the use of gateway pages, doorway pages, or bridge pages. ANY practice which may be considered spam by the major search engines and directories as stated in their published guidelines.
It is difficult to read (9/10px type) or navigate, contains broken links.
It contains marketing language, methods, experience, or pricing structures which may mislead the visitor.
It contains keyword stuffed HTML Comments Tags <!-- Keyword Stuffed Comments Here --> or any form of metadata abuse and/or misuse based on our interpretation of the guidelines set forth by the W3C, WAI, WCAG, Section 508, Bobby and the DCMI.
It has little to no meaningful content; one or two pages specific to SEO/SEM, or; contains little to no original content specific to the industry.
It advertises and/or promotes the use of third party products and/or services like those such as LinkMaps, Zeus, etc. Products and/or services such as these may be in conflict with the published Submission Guidelines of the major search engines and directories.
It contains the <meta name="revisit-after" content=""> metadata element. If your site contains any variation of the revisit-after META tag, we will decline the submission without further review.
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