Web Directories:

1. By entering in web directories (= web) which will link popularity of your site and thus improve search engine rankings.
2. You should list your website is not random in all sorts of web directories, but also to ensure that a web guide also makes a serious impression relatively high and preferably linked websites. When in doubt, look better on an item. “Bad neighborhood” can adversely affect your ranking. Negative criteria are:
* much advertising (ads, banners, pop-up window, affiliate links)
* uncritical activated link entries (or partner links) to questionable / poor quality / unreliable or
Directory-operator for this purpose the following SEO blog articles are worth reading:
* Google Blog – web directories in the Spotlight
* ranking-news.de – The punishment of Web Directories
3. The most important web catalog is the Open Directory Project , where you first enter your site should. Please note, however, necessarily the advice to register!
Other recommended web directories I have in my web directory index compiled.
4. Make sure that the web catalog your site does not have a forwarding link. You recognize the fact that a numeric parameter CGI or PHP page, a pass, it’s like jump.cgi? id = 123 .
Compared to a normal HTML link, such a redirect link worth a little less (301) or perhaps even completely worthless (302)!

Addendum: Meanwhile, as seems most 302er 301er treat Google, see here .
5. Unlike the ODP web directories usually allow other, keywords in the title to accommodate it. This has an additional positive effect on the ranking for those keywords.
6. If you submit your site systematically in Web directories, you should link title and description text always vary slightly. Related keywords you can use a keyword database search. Link to, but not limited to keywords, but also with the domain or company name. In order not to lose track of, I recommend you to applications including the link text in a small table to document all the Web catalog.

7. Do you not think your website in one week in 100 Web-catalog need to log en. Distribute these work better for several weeks. A sudden increase of the link can search engines like Google and so unnatural as to be classified as experimental manipulation. It is better if your link popularity slowly but steadily increasing.
8. Since many Web directories specified number of entries will automatically result pages of a produce from (“Page 2″, “next 10″), the Pagerank back declines after, you should be careful too, as the entries are sorted, so that your link near the front appears as:
* The entries are sorted alphabetically by the title of the entry, then choose the best the one title variation, the first letter in the alphabet at the furthest forward is (eg instead of “Consulting Services Peter Braun” better, “Braun, Peter – business consulting).
* However, you have free choice of title when sorting by PageRank. If you already have a Pagerank of 4 or 5, this type of sorting is of course a good thing, because your entry will remain accessible on the front page of the category.
* Sort by date (newest rear) is favorable for the category of your choice (yet) have few entries – bad time when there were already many in front of you.
* Sort by date (newest front) is unfavorable for popular topics as the link sooner or later emigrated to the rear.