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Hello, I’ve just found an amazing list of 350+ web directories to submit your website into, to increase number of visitors to your website into thousands…
http://www.scriptinn.com/misc/submission_directories/

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This thread shows the old-school “submit‑everywhere” instinct (thanks ) and the early pushback from members like , and . The up-to-date take: blasting a site to hundreds of general directories is an outdated tactic and can look like a link‑scheme to search engines. Google’s spam guidance and recent anti‑link‑spam work make indiscriminate mass submissions risky. (developers.google.com)

That doesn’t mean every directory is worthless. Carefully chosen listings still help with visibility and local citations — for example, vetted industry directories, major review sites and official local listings that reinforce NAP (name, address, phone) consistency and drive real referral traffic. For local businesses especially, citation consistency remains an active ranking signal. (brightlocal.com)

Practical checklist (apply before submitting): only target directories that (a) have manual/editorial review and topical categories, (b) show meaningful traffic or indexed pages, (c) give an individual, crawlable listing page (not a giant page of thousands of links), and (d) don’t demand reciprocal links or exact‑match anchor text. Write unique descriptions, space submissions so velocity looks natural, track referral/conversion with UTM tags, and monitor new backlinks in Google Search Console (disavow only after attempting removals). Manual, quality‑first submissions beat automated bulk services every time. (bluetree.digital)

A low‑risk plan that synthesizes the forum: pick 10–20 reputable, relevant directories, keep your business info identical across them, measure which listings send real visitors or conversions, and drop the rest. That follows ’s “top few” logic, respects ’s point about niche value, and preserves ’s emphasis on referral traffic rather than raw link counts.

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Member Avatar for einfoway

good collection in fact i liked your directory

Member Avatar for mackone

That's a good collection, but only top 10 directories will help you more.

Member Avatar for x3mario

More directories here.

Member Avatar for einfoway

More directories here.

good site

Member Avatar for innovativeatul

Really good collection

Member Avatar for nikesh.yadav

nice list
but i read somewhere that we should not go to submit on such a big list bcoz they produce spamming we should go with yahoo, google, ask etc..

i am not good in seo but i just give my thoughts

Member Avatar for ithelp

Submitting to directories have become useless after google changed there search engine algothirm .

Member Avatar for abhicho

i agree with ithelp. directory submissions do not help. i think link exchange better than directory submission.

Member Avatar for mark1993

Yep now a days people rarely use some directories for instance i did it and look at my site great posts and so nice but low traffic...... even after submissions

Member Avatar for brianlevine

i agree with ithelp. directory submissions do not help. i think link exchange better than directory submission.

It may not help with page rank and stuff like that, but they can be useful by sending traffic your way from people who browse the directories. But I agree with earlier posters that it's not so useful to post to post to all 350, just to the top few.

/Brian

Member Avatar for Dani

It depends on the directory. There are some really good quality niche directories that have real targeted traffic. And it's always a good idea to get yourself into DMOZ (although not as important as it once was IMO). With both directories and link exchanges, you just have to be careful about just being lost in the masses, whether it's 10 levels deep in a directory or halfway down a link swap page with 500 other links.

Member Avatar for devisk

its so good thanx for ur posting here

Member Avatar for jeight

Submitting to directories have become useless after google changed there search engine algothirm .

Is it also useless for other search engines like yahoo?

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