Commandment #5 focuses on DIRECTORIES and there are more links to enjoy!
With four commandments already under our belts, we embark upon “The Master of SEO’s” fifth command today…and it is one for the books (bookMARKS, that is!). I like the fact that he shares FREE sites for this…Free is ALWAYS good. 
The Fifth Commandment – Though Shalt Have Links from Directories
Identify the keyword string that you want your index page to rank for and use it in the title of your submissions. Also, only do a couple of submissions each day.
Here is a list of PR4+ directories that have free submission. The $299 Yahoo directory submission is also a good move.
For the complete list of Free Directories go here.
MY TAKE ON THIS: TRUTH…but I don’t know about the $299 recommendation from “The Master of SEO”…
To get started, take advantage of the free tools shared above, and check out the link he has included for a complete list, too, after all, it is FREE!!!
The link takes you to a page with “361 FREE Directories…with PR” (as in Public Relations). Look at the numbers included AFTER each website – this indicates the site’s page ranking. The higher the number the better – that will help determine WHERE to start, right?!?
As one comment indicates, “It is not about quantity but quality.”
Take time to do your research and be sure you are posting your information to the correct directories under the appropriate category. This will make a huge difference in the results of your efforts and you sure don’t want to have to redo, rework, or rethink it all after you sbumit to them. Take time to learn what works and doesn’t, and then tweak as needed.
If you want to pay someone big bucks to assist you, have at it!
You might first consider looking into http://oDesk.com and outsourcing this. Conduct interviews with local businesses whom you are already networking with. See what you can learn, who fits your budget and will meet your needs, and NEVER forget to ask for recommendations and references!!!
A new company I have enjoyed networking with is representatives of LocalAdLink. My all-time FAVORITE guru to help with SEO (and who I use as a reference for my clients, is Mike with CoolBubba.com – when you email him for information, be sure to say I sent you. He helps with this blog and is a ROCKSTAR with SEO. ..you won’t be disappointed, that is for sure!!!
As we move to the “final five” commandments, get ready for more links…”The Master of SEO” from sta.rtup.biz has another round of FAB information to share with you…just tackle this as you would eat an elephant – one bite at a time. LOL!
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Hi all, this is Mike from http://www.coolbubba.com Good info here. I’d be happy to help out if you need pointing in the right direction or if you’d like to totally outsource this being done for you. It’s something that is important to do for both recognition and being found, but also from a SEO point of view. DMOZ.org is probably the most influential of the above directories, one that I frequently submit for clients at the beginning of a campain. There are also quite a few other places that are important to list your site, especially if you are targeting local search such as Google Mobile, Google My Location, Google Maps, Yahoo Local and Maps, and Bing Local/Maps. There are places that are important to list your site where you are found in such channels as GPS’s, mobile search, OnStar, etc. Local search has rapidly overtaken the yellow pages, and is in fact the new yellow pages, and businesses who are savvy enough to know this and proactively take a stance and work on this NOW will be the businesses who not only survive, more that succeed, but thrive and come out on top. Business who put this off until “tomorrow” may not have the chance for tomorrow to come before they are way too far beyond and can’t catch up and are out of business.
We’ve just rolled out new packages across the board for local as well as internation businesses, but one of the hottest ones is our “Local Search Blast” pack. It’s a one time cost, which quite a few companies like, and we submit and get your business listed where it matters – for local search, the maps, GPS searches and directories, 411 and local yellow pages, OnStar, and more than a good number of the emerging technologies channels. Contact me at mike @ coolbubba.com for more information or to discuss. We also have monthly link building packages which will help put your SEO on autopilot.
You ROCK, keep up the good blog here!!!
Mike