When I started blogging, a bit over a year ago, I soon stumbled across the SEO (search engine optimization) term and among the SEO advices were adding your site to web directories. Since I wanted to get my blog listed in search engines like Google and Yahoo as fast as possible I started to add the blog to web directories. The reasons to add your blog or regular website to web directories are many and here are my personal two main reasons to use web directories:

1. Link back
When you add your site to a web directory you get a back link and this will make your site more visible on world wide web. Back links are also important for Google Pagerank as the amount and quality of back links to your site determine the Pagerank you will get. Thus adding your site to web directories will get you more back links.

2. Traffic from web directories
I actually get quite a deal of traffic from various web directories. This traffic both comes from people using search engines (finding my site via the web directories) and people browsing the web directories directly.

I would definitely advise all blog owners to add their site to a free website directory or two. Who doesn’t want more traffic and back links?