Summary: If you need help getting found by the search engines, list your site with a human-edited directory service.  This 2-page PDF list contains the 23 most common search engine-friendly directories, along with the cost for submitting your site, as well as information about their popularity and traffic rankings.

Reciprocal link exchange used to be a great way to attract the attention of search engines to your site.  Now, search engines pay attention only the to quality and popularity of a site sending providing you with a link back to your site that's not reciprocal.  One of the best ways to get quality inbound links back to your site is to submit articles to highly trafficked article directories and submit press releases to paid press release services.

A second way to gain high quality inbound links is by listing your site in search engine-friendly directories, in which humans review the listings.  Google and other search engines place more credibility in the directories in which the listings are reviewed by real people than they do other kinds of directories.  Consequently, these links are weighted more heavily and favorably in the inbound link evaluation process.

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