I’ve talked a lot lately about how many people have flocked to the internet during these hard economic times. What doesn’t get mentioned a lot is how many of those people get swallowed up into the vast depths of the internet. It’s a shame to watch a new person to the world of the internet get drowned and burned out by all the big sharks out there. You absolutely must get your site seen on the search engines. Anything less than the top 10 for any particular term and your site may as well not exist too. One of the best practices for enriching your SERPs and increasing your SEO quality is to get listed in as many free directories as possible… problem is finding the right ones for yourself! Trying to find enough relevant directories to get your site SEO optimized is more than a little bit of a pain in the butt.

Luckily there are services that offer affordable manual directory submissions! I’m actually thinking about using the service for myself, at $0.14 per submission getting my site listed on 1,000 directories is only $140… not bad considering the equivalent in blog advertising will cost you more than five times that much. When I launch my vacuum cleaner review site I know one of the first places I’ll be using to get it listed is DirectoryMaximizer.com along with some more expensive services like PRWeb, and PayPerPost. But DirectoryMaximizer is definitely my favorite, they have some great features such as allowing you to spread out your submissions (to avoid the sandbox effect) to where you can get listed in either 100 directories a month for 12 months, or do a slow 5 week launch. And you can keep track of all submissions to help avoid duplicate link content.

I was extremely happy to find DirectoryMaximizer, they’ll be included in the SEO campaign of every new website that I launch for a long time!