If you own a website, you know that there are many different ways to promote your site.  You can submit it to the major search engines, write articles, blog about it, and social bookmark it.  But one of the more effective, but often overlooked methods should be an essential part of your website promotion strategy: directory submission.

What is a web directory?  Well, you can think of it like a search engine where a human has decided that the sites listed there are of some value.  Usually, you can find more relevant results if you make a search compared to traditional search engines.

Most people submit their sites to free directories but that takes a lot of time.  For those of you that have the time, that is great, but for the rest of us, thankfully there are directory submission services available.

Quite often free directory submission services are very inexpensive and definitely worth the money.  It is a great way to get your sites indexed and help the ranking for your site.  Just be sure that they allow you to vary your title and descriptions for your listings so you will not be penalized for duplicate listings by the search engines.

So, make web directories one of the tools that you use to promote your sites.