SEO Demystified

Here are some Directory listings where you can go and submit you site address as a SEO pract.
Some of them are paid and some are free, depending upon the requirement even reports can be obtained. Here is the document containg the list
directory.doc

This will be first post in this Blog, as a traditional way let me start with the History of Search Engine, How it evolved from Directories. Before that one must have clear knowledge about Search Engine and Directories.

Lets Start by Distinguishing between the Directories and Search Engines.

Search Engines :   ( like Google)

The main Characteristic of search engines is that they rely on spiders to crawl the web, index the pages as they go. Spiders are browser like programs they follow links from page to page and from site to site indexing everything they finds.

When you submit a web page to the search engine( About submission we will discuss later, lots of conflicts in that) all you really do is, you are telling the spider about the page.

But your page wont be indexed or added to database as soon as you submit it takes time for the SE( Search Engine) to make its robot crawl your page.

Directories:   (like dmoz.org)

Directories donot use spiders, rather they use real people or editors who visit and evaluate sites and then add them if your site satisfy their minimum requirement.

There is an important differnce:

A search engine can index thousands of pages per day, whereas a directory cannot.So why do we have directory if they cant compete? The answer is  Quality.

Editors rejects pages with Broken lins,typos,unclear navigations etc. It accepts only genuine content, no pragmatism.

Fine we will have a more close look at this soon.