Directory Critic

Well, nothing out of the ordinary has been happening here behind the scenes at Directory Critic. New directory submissions keep coming in, and I keep adding them. Not really exciting stuff.

So I thought I’d take the opportunity to let everyone know about some (not so new) advertising options I’ve setup here. The site has pretty much doubled in popuarity in March. The free directory list is where most visitors spend their time, and I was surprised at how popular this blog has become! The blog feed gets almost as many pageviews as the home page.

So there’s a couple of options I have setup. You can buy a monthly link in the “critic’s choice” box (discount for 3 months), announce your new directory/webmaster site on this bog for a one off fee and put you sites 125×125 banner up. Details are here:

http://www.directorycritic.com/advertise.html

There’s still 5 spaces left in the box so get em’ while they last!

The lists are growing, by my next post I wanna have 800 SEO friendly directories! If you know a dir that’s seo friendly and it’s not on my list, please submit it – even if it’s not yours.

Directory Critic has just reached another milestone! We now have over 700 search engine friendly directories in our lists! We’re adding around 50 new directories every week so soon we’ll be hitting the 1000 directrory mark! Every directory is checked for SEO Friendliness before making the list, so you know you’re getting a backlink and PR.

There’s lots going on behind the scenes here as well, so stay tuned. In the mean time, enjoy the PR, traffic and backlinks you get from submitting to the directories list here!

Links:

Free directory list, Paid directory list, Recip directory list and check out the main site for hundreds of niche directories.

Enough is enough. I am sick of getting spammed by this website. I am getting comment spam here on the blog and this site repeatedly gets submitted to the site even though it’s not even a directory! I have noticed some directories have this site listed already. I urge you if you have this site listed in your directory to delete it.

Here are the details:

Email: [email protected]
URI: http://www.nextstudent.com

Do not accept this site in your directory, they’re spammers!

God I HATE SPAM!

I recently launched a couple of new sites. And the first step I take to promote my new sites is to get them listed in as many directories as possible. Sometimes I just use the free list, sometime I pay – depends on the site. But no matter what site I’m launching I know I’m going to be submitting to hundreds of directories!

So how do I do it? Thanks to some of the guys over at DigitalPoint who pointed me in the right direction when I started out, I now have my own “system” that I use to submit to directories. Here’s how it goes…

Before you start:

I use a freeware tool called clipboard magic. This tool basically enhances the windows clipboard by allowing you to have multiple lines of text saved, and by selecting a line by clicking on it you can easily paste that text straight to web form. So you can have all your new site information (including multiple site titles, descriptions etc) saved in clipboard magic and available for you to easily paste into directory submission forms.

Also, you need to use Firefox because it has tabs. You shoud be using firefox anyway, but let’s not get into that!

Step 1: Setup your website information

Download, install and open up clipboard magic. You need to enter all the information that you are likely to be asked for in directory submission forms. So enter thie information, in this order:

1. 5 different titles for your website (be creative and don’t stuff with keywords)
2. URL
3. Short description (for dirs that only accept up to 200 chars)
4. Long description
5. Your name
6. Email Address
7. Keyowrds for your site

I like to use this order because it’s in the same order as php Link Directory submit form, and php Link Directory makes up a huge chunk of the directorys on the lists. OK, so now save this clipboard list. Now that you’ve got that information, whenever you need to submit your site to a new directory you can bring it straight up.

Step 2: Enter your directory into the tracking system

So now you’ve got the information you need, it’s time to hit the lists! Let’s start with the free directory list. Open up the list and resize the window so that you can fit the clipboard magic window beside it. You need to access both these windows at the same time. It’s helps if you have a high res monitor.

I track all the directories I sumbit to using the tracker I wrote for this site. On the top of each list there’s a tracker box. For a new website you must enter the name of your site into the ” Enter a new website to track:” box. Click GO and you’re now tracking that site. The site will now be made available in the drop down menu for you to track future submissions.

Step 3: Submit to directories!

OK, now it’s time to do the submitting. I like to sumbit to about 25 directories at a time. So make you way down the list, right clicking on the directory and opening it in a new tab. Also check the checkbox next to that directory. Stop when you’ve got to about 25 directories (that’s alot of tabs! – but you can go more in you want). Now scroll down to the bottom of the list and click “Update tracking information”. This will save the details in our database.

Submit your site to all the directories you have opened in tabs by clicking on the information in clipboard magic and pasting it into the directory submission forms. Easy! Once you have finished those 25, move onto the next 25.

Keeping up with all the new directories

Not all of us have time to scan forums, blogs etc looking for new directories. That’s why I do it, so you don’t have to! All you have to do is just come back to this site every week or so, go to the new directories page, select your website from the drop down menu in the tracking box above the list, and submit your website to the directories I have added in the past week. Easy!

Further notes about submitting to directories

Here are just some general tips for getting your site listed in directories:

1. Never use auto submission services
2. Always read the directory rules (it takes 30 seconds to read rules, better than being rejected!)
3. Create a useful, well designed website. Directory owner dont want to list junk sites.
4. Don’t stuff you title full of keywords!
5. If you’re submitting to recip directories, don’t use sneaky tactics link nofollow and redirects.

Hope this has helped some of you streamline your directory submissions! Stay turned here for more updates. I am putting a great deal of time into improving this site over the coming weeks and I will be announcing all upgrades here on the blog.

Well, I’ve just launched a few sites so Ive been hittin’ the free list and getting my sites listed in as many directories as possible. Little did I know, this would lead to so many list changes! It’s been a while since I’ve submitted to the list and after the recent google PR update many directories have switched over to paid. So about 80 or so directories have shifted from the free to paid lists. I also removed a few that were no longer live or not accepting submissions. So for the moment the free list shrunk while the paid list grows.

Don’t worry though, I’m still adding free directories daily for those of you who need their free directory fix 🙂 I’ve added about 30-40 free directories in the past 5 days.

Another niche was also added tonight, food and drink. So if you know any food related, recipe, cocktail etc directories please feel free to add them (as long as their seo friendly of course).

Thanks all for now, stay tuned for updates.

(and don’t forget to keep checking this page for new dirs added to the lists)

I’ve just spent of today styling this blog, finding and adding new dirs and improving this site. But I want some feedback and suggestions from my visitors on how i can make this a better resource for webmasters. If you have any comments about the site or things that you’d like to see here please leave your comments to this message.

I’m open to any suggestions 🙂

Well it wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be, but I’ve successfully skinned wordpress for the first time! I also changed the header image so now it looks a little bit less crap that it did before!

Now that the blog looks the part, time to start some promo 🙂

I have been getting a few emails over the past week about the PR being outdated on the lists. I have been putting off installing my new pagerank script because PR was still all over the place after the lastest update. Now that things have settled down I will be installing it in the next few days.

The script will also run on the crontab, meaning it will check for PR updates every 24 hours. This will ensure that the PR data is always up-to-date.

So to all the new directories that got some good PR this update, you’ll see the correct readng soon!

On another note, I’m working on intergrating this blog into the site…so hopefully I’ll be getting rid of this skin soon!

Just a quick post to say hello and welcome to the blog. I’m going to use this blog to let my visitors know about new stuff, changes, upates etc here at Directory Critic. I’m also going to be talking about new directories, directory scripts and opportunities. The comments area of this blog wil also serve as a visitor feedback section!

So it’s good to have you on board, hope you all find the site useful!

Stay tuned for updates 🙂