Submitting your website to directories is a great method of building up inbound links to your website and therefore increasing your websites ranking in the search engine results.

Website directories are online databases of websites, which are organised into different categories, meaning that relevant websites are grouped together to allow visitors to easily find what they are searching for.

There is no set amount of directories which you are able to get your website listed on, and there are currently thousands of website directories online today.

There are different types of directories online, the two most common types are general directories, where a wide range of websites can be submitted and niche directories. Niche directories are specific to a certain subject. Depending on the topic of your website, we will aim to submit your website to a combination of both.

Unlike many firms offering search engine optimisation services, each directory submission is performed by the Big Blue Tomato team, we do not use any automated software, or outsource the task!

The most effective method of submitting your website to directories is to do so evenly and over a period of time. For example it is not advisable to spend a day submitting to over 100 directories and then leave the task for a month! It is much better to do this evenly over a longer period of time – in the above example instead of 100 in one day, submitting to 25 each week for one month would have better long term results!

Benefits of article submission:

- Good method of gaining one way, inbound links to your website
- Increase the number of visitors to your website