What is important while submit to directories?

Submit to directories is one from the most important sources to gain back links to your web project. Additionally do we control format of the link. That means that we are choosing anchor text and category of page where the link will be situated. This is very important from view of SEO, because not only power, respectively Google page rank of page with back link is important, but also category of pages with back link. It is important to have similar category with your content.

First of all, choose directories specialized for your niche. Back links from that kind of directories are usually more valuable than from general directories. And also traffic from these directories is greater than from general.

If your pages are specialized for specific region prefer submit to local directories. People from region usually know local directories and they are looking there, where the want to find something on Internet. This is important especially for other than English sites. This kind of directories has usually higher page rank than general directories.

Submit to directories is not important for straight traffic, you will not gain a lot of traffic from directories. But with increasing number of back links from right pages with good anchor text is page more powerful for search engines, and position of page on search engines for specific keywords is improving. A with good position in search engines are traffic to page rapidly growing.

Whiles submit to general directories it is important to choose right category. Sometimes are suitable for page more categories and it is good to choose correct one. It is better to choose category with less links. This is why I also prefer new directories. Your link is on better position on page, and page rank of these directories is usually growing, together with your link.