Submitting your blog/website to search engine friendly directories is useful in boosting sites ranking, and also considered as one of the most effective method on how to increase traffic to your site. (Find out how to get website visitors).

Here are some measures to know if the directory is search engine friendly or not

1. Links are crawlable and indexable by search engines

  • Check if the directory has rel=”no-follow” tag (used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index.)
  • Also try to check if the directory pages were cached by Google, Yahoo More >