Increase Your Directory Submission Productivity

I am now contradicting myself with directory submissions. I previously said that if you want to maximize your money and your time (and we all know time=money) you should look at paying someone to submit your blogs to directories.

Well that’s a great idea and can maximize your directory submission numbers very quickly and easily. However, you have to be careful with who you go with, how you submit, and how much you’re paying.

With people who run automated submission services, or semi-automated with the advent of captchas, you can’t be 100% certain that they are submitting the correct links and descriptions for your site. You also can’t be 100% certain that the links are even going to be approved. You may get the emails for submission, but if these services are blasting 200 directories with 200 sites each, some smaller directories may begin to block their IPs from acceptable submissions.

So what do you do know?

You start the submission process yourself. It’s a long process, but this way you have complete control over what you submit and when you submit it. You’ll also know exactly what you submitted and when you submitted it so you can contact the directory administrators to find out when your links are going to be added, or why they weren’t.

While doing mass submissions to web directories you need to streamline your process so that you can be very very efficient. You need to know that your links are going to be accepted or have a very good chance of being accepted and you need submit your blogs efficiently.

First thing, finding web directories that will almost guarantee acceptance and quick acceptance, isn’t as hard as it seems. If you head over to the Digital Point Forums section Directories – Solicitations and Announcements you’ll find lots of people trying to either start their directories or build their web directory listings. Just about 5-10 directories that say they’re offering free submissions and open them in a few tabs.

Next you’ll to make a word file with the following information:

• Site Title
• Link URL
• Site Description

Make this for as many sites as you have. Now open the submit pages on each of the web directories. (I suggest the directories that offer the choice of categories on the submit page, it’s quicker) Next copy and paste the all the information into the site description section of the submit for for every directory you have open. Then cut the link from the description box, and paste it into the URL box. Then finally cut the site title from the description box and paste it into the site title box.

Choose your category. Hopefully your left the option to allow your browser to remember what you’ve filled into boxes before and you can just click on the Name and Email boxes to fill those in. Fill out the captcha and done.

This is really helpful when you have multiple sites to submit. I have 16 sites I’m submitting to directories, so I do one site at a time and submit that one site to each directory. That way I don’t have to go back to my word file and copy and past all the time.

If you do 5 of these each day, it should take you only 30 minutes to an hour to do and you’ll have 100 directory submissions by months end.