Search directories:

Yahoo!

Yahoo! is perhaps the most important search engine to achieve a good ranking for.

Yahoo! could provide the most traffic to your site compared to all the other search engines. Yahoo! is not a search engine as such, it is what is known as a directory. Directory are different and sites can not be positioned the same. Directories are edited by humans, the editors look at the site and write a title and description for your site. This is what determines your rank, so ideally you want your important keywords in your title and description. The content on your page or in your html code makes no difference to your rankings in Yahoo!.

OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT (DMOZ)

The Open Directory Project is another important directory.

Although the search engine itself is no where near as popular as Yahoo!, Open Directory's index is the source of many other search engines. Also a listing in the Open Directory Project can greatly benefit your link popularity.

Looksmart

Looksmart is another very important directory as it provides MSN Search with results. MSN is now in close competition with Yahoo! as the largest search engine. That is why it is now so important to achieve a top position in Looksmart.

 

Click here to learn more about some popular Search Engine.

 

 

Back to "Search Engine Positioning" page.