Directory submission
Listing a website or product in online directories to earn backlinks, referral traffic, and discovery.
Directory submission is the process of adding your product to curated online directories. A good listing earns a relevant backlink, sends interested visitors, and helps new sites get indexed and discovered — including inside AI answers that draw on directories.
Quality beats volume: a handful of relevant, well-maintained directories with real dofollow links outperform hundreds of spammy ones. Manual, curated directories tend to deliver the most durable value.
Related terms
BacklinkA link from one website to another. Backlinks are a core ranking factor and a primary way search engines judge a site's authority.Dofollow backlinkA link from another website that passes ranking signals (link equity) to the page it points to, helping it rank higher in search.Programmatic SEOCreating large numbers of targeted landing pages at scale from a data set and a template, to capture long-tail search demand.
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