One of our most visited websites is a free directory submission site – EasySubmits.
We came up with an idea to create EasySubmits while submitting our own sites to the directories. It took forever to fill out the forms, especially find the right categories in the drop down boxes. This is when we decided to automate it. Even though there are other desktop applications, we thought that we could bring something new to the table. Something that with a better tracking and availability from anywhere as long as there is a browser and internet connection. We were not satisfied with the results after trying a few desktop applications since most of them are pretty complicated to figure out, don’t work or crash half the time.
At first we just put it out online. It was not available for public for a few months and we thought about starting a directory submission service. Since we do custom web projects and have a lot on the plate, we changed our mind about submission service and made it public. It took off almost instantly. In just a few weeks we had so much traffic that we had to dump a shared hosting and move to a dedicated one. Now some sql tables, such as tracking, have over 1,000,000 records. EasySubmits gets 200-500 new user registrations every day and around 10,000 daily page views.
There were a few problems on the way and some are still there. Directories tend to go up and down on a regular basis. With over 500 listings it is hard to keep up and assure quality of the list. Some directories become paid as they grow and attract more traffic, others get broken with the corrupted databases, smarty errors or just disappear and the rest keep on changing their captcha settings. It also happens that directories go down for a day or two while switching hosting or having problems with the server load. These are the main issues that we have to deal with.
Now I would like to go over directory submissions in general.
Many people tend to believe that directory submissions do not have any effect on SEO anymore. While it doesn’t make much sense to spend days and days to submit, we believe that it still has a certain effect. The main argument is that people don’t see much links listed in google from the directories by typing “link:url” and this is true. You will not see every single link, however, you should still see some. Besides, search engines do not show every link that they know about. Another factor is the amount of pages that the directories have. When you submit a link, it usually goes to the top of the list, and as more and more links get added, your listing gets pushed down to further pages. Yes, those pages are PR0 in most of the cases, but being around relevant content still passes some value.
Many people do the submissions wrong. They use the same anchor text or irrelevant anchor text. Do the keyword research, go towards the keywords for which you want to rank good and change the title (anchor text) every 50 submissions or so… This way you will get good ranking for the keywords and search engines will not think that you are trying to spam them with the same link titles. For instance, if you are trying to get higher on search engines for “florida realtor”, don’t use “florida realtor” all the time. Make a few variations like “realtor in florida”, “florida real estate”, “real estate services in florida”, etc.
Just to prove the point, we did an experiment once. We got a new site and submitted to all of the directories with a few relevant keywords. In a week we had no backlinks showing in google, however, we were already indexed. With some onsite optimization we were already on page 8. Two week later, some directories showed up and we had 2 backlinks, however, we were already on page 2. It is up to you, but we believe that directory submissions still have some effect, not as much as few years back , but it still helps.
Some people also say that it is bad to submit to over 10 directories a day. We don’t think it matters since the directories have different approval time. While some may list you the same day, others wouldn’t approve your site for months. That is besides the fact that the links will be picked up by search engines at different times as spiders don’t crawl the same page over and over every day. We just chose 100 since we get bored to submit all day and the number works for us. What’s more important is continuous link building.
Another point that you may find useful – do not use primary email address for directory submissions. Many directories do send spam! Register one that you will be using for submissions and commenting on the sites that send spam.
These are pretty much the points that we had to share with a few users who would email us and ask for some advice. We hope you can find this information useful.
Please let us know if you have any problems with the site or have any suggestions.
Thank you and enjoy EasySubmits!
Very nice site. I just used it and submited to 50~ directories. Very easy and fast!
Just suggestion – make a list of directories that dont use captcha so we could use that small list and do a very fast submission.
That would be awesome!
Good idea, thank you for suggestion. I placed it on the to do list.
We will add “Requires captcha” field with the checkbox next to it if it does and make it sortable.
* Update: we removed some sort fields since they were affecting page load speed and added “Requires Captcha” to the listings and sorting options.
Why isn’t there a form where I can submit my directory?
We added “suggest new directory” option to the contact form.
Good point, thank you!
Nice directory list, beats doing individual manual submissions. Thanks for the free services.
Thank you. It was internal tool for a while, but we don’t do as many submissions anymore, so decided to make it public. Glad you like it.
Where can submit my golf related site, can’t found any category…..
We have “recreation” category there, however, please check each directory as some may have “sports” or even “golf” one. EasySubmits lists only has the most common categories of all the directories.
great site. used it while doing seo for above site. really fantastic
this site is really very good.please give me a provide more than directory because i finished it.
thanks
Thank you. Please come back once every few weeks and submit to the new directories.
SEO Seattle says thanks! I have a FREE SEO TOOL page on my site.
Let me know if I can add this site????
Thanks!
Sure, you can add the link to our website. Thank you.
Hello, I wabt to report taht the http://www.ribcast.com directory is broken and thanks for the great service
No problem. Our staff goes through reported directories and removes the ones that become broken or unavailable. Please report the broken/inactive directories if you find any.
Thank you.
Great staff!! I hope it remains free for us.
Can I send you a dir list and you add it to your list. I would like to add another thou to your directory list
Sure, you can use a contact form on the site to suggest directories. We have over 1000 disabled directories as well. If you suggest a directory that has been disabled for not meeting the quality standard, we will not add it. Also, easysubmits doesnt work with all of the directories since we only have parsers for popular scripts that do not require logins or any kind of authentication. Directories also need to have a direct link to submit page.
nice and spam free directory. i recommend all to submit your site to easysubmit directory !
Great site. This is the site for which I was looking for. But I want to add more directories in this site and submit my site into all directories without wasting my time after manual submission. But I was disappoint in that matter. Rasim can you pleeeese suggest me something on that? But rasim many many congratulations to you for making such a great site like this.
It takes time to write the parser for each directory. We usually add 1 new directory every once in a while and add a ton of them all at once sometimes. We have over 200 new ones waiting to be added, just waiting for some things to close so we have more time to add them. Please follow us on twitter as we usually throw an update once we do any major updates.
Thank you.
Very nice site. I just used it and submitted my site ******************************* and i am getting very good traffic.
Hi
Any way to submit a non-Engish site ? Would a EN description and submission help my FR site ?
Hi,
We submitted non-english sites before and got quite a few approvals. It depends on the directory owners, but we used English title and description. As for EN Description, it should still help since you will still be getting a link. You may also try using FR title and EN description. It may lower the approval rate but it will benefit you more SEO-wise.
It’s very nice site i did not seen up like this site, Thank u thank u so much, Like this site if u have any semi automate article submitted site. Please let me know, Thank You,
Prasad
Great tool! love it!
nice directories list, helps me much for submitting my new website..thank you very much..
regards,
eazycure
Thank you for the free directory submissions, it is never that easy with easysubmits.com, and the directory list is long. Simple superb and awesome
Great directory list.Helped me in submitting directories in an easy and more systematic manner. Good job done.!! Also check out our blog section : http://blogs.q3tech.com
Good list i found, nicely manageable easy to use. Good work Rasim. I ve already gone though for my sites.
Thanks a lot, Rasim and may you be Blessed for making it easy for people like me to submit our sites.
amazing dude. it may safe time for seo.
Great list of directories,really easy to submit and manage.Great work easysubmit!!!. http:/ /isubmitlinks.com are providing the same free directory submission for more than 2000+ directories, Socialbookmark, articles and many more.
@e-webtemplates: good directory list, but doesn’t have the semi-automated submissions, takes way too much time. I still prefer http://www.addurl.nu for manual submissions as they have many directories and the list is a very high quality unlike directorycritic with a ton of dead links. As for social bookmarking, http://www.socialmarker.com is the one I prefer to use.
As far as I can see, isubmitlinks is not much different than any other directory list, just lets you know that you can use firefox addons to prefill the information, which still doesn’t do a decent job on category selection.
Thanks for sharing though, perhaps some may find it useful.
Do you guys only have Php Link Directory sites indexed? I notice that you must simply use method=post the form data to all the submit.php pages of the directories. Pretty wild technique.
how are you planning to expand the list of sites to include other scripts as well?
@Derron: Most of the sites listed are php link directory ones. We have some other scripts as well, but over 90% are php link directory sites. We chose only free directories that do not require registration and have similar data structure. We just need to make sure that the directories do not require more fields that we get from the users, such as address, secondary category, etc… This is where php link directory is more common.
As for other scripts, which ones are you talking about? We support a few more, the issue is that most of the time they don’t have a submit page where we can take categories and just “post” the data.
Thanks.
Thanks for such a fantastic website! Its a great help to all us little guys out there who dont have massive budgets to spend on link building. I’ve been using your site for a couple of months now, so just wanted to express my gratitude for giving this service for free.
Keep up the good work
Thank you Guys for your work Great site Really Love it !!!
Do not like it so much, because it is quite slow. I use Autosubmit forms and make manual submission quite fast
@Ships Sorry to hear that you don’t like the service. It usually take about the same time to load easysubmit directory page as it takes to load submit page of the directory itself. Autosubmit is good, roboforms is good too, but does it select the right category for you and keep track of results? Anyway, thanks for the feedback. If anybody is experiencing slow load times, please let us know as it is not something that we worry about at this point and it seems to load fast for us.
Thank you
Thanks very much for this easy submit.
I have to pay about $20 for a service like this to another website which is worst than this.
Thanks so much for developing EasySubmit. I have found it to be very helpful for directory submissions!
I used the tool,Really effective.
Thank You. I visit your site once a week to check for new directories. Keep up the good work!
I love the service.
I suggest to all users to submit to multiple directories at the same time by clicking ctrl + the directory link. It will bring up the directories in different tabs, making them all load at the same time.
Thanks for the great free service.
Dear, very nice, I love it.
I’m looking for the place to add my directory
where is it?
@Shawn – there is a section in contact us area. We do not approve all of the directories, only the ones that work well with our parsers.
Really great service – best ever! Have recommended several times; there’s no faster way where you actually have real control over the process and know what and where you have registered!!!
Just AMAZING. This tool really rocks. I’ve tried it out for a couple of minutes and I was able to submit to 20 sites faster than any other program I used. I wonder if it will have any affect on my Search Engine Results Page???
Thank you for this great resource.
Kind Regards,
really great site and information
i have submitted my forum i really like this site i heard many good review