How to find foreign language directories and howto add your new directory list to your submission managing software ?

Build your optimized directory list for your precise publishing needs

Before you can add new directories to your scheduled submission selection, you need to find new relevant directories!

First you have to find new directories out there on the web. By far only a few are known in common lists circulating. Even less are already integrated into common semi-automated submission software and tools. The reason is simple. The number of directories is huge - many ten thousands. The work to find new directories by the thousands and then verify, PR update and integrate / import into existing submission management tools is huge. Huge means far in excess of hundreds of additional hours. Hours no one ever will pay you. Hours of additional online work that only will be rewarded by your web stability your site eventually shall manifest after all solid work done properly.

There might be some 10'000 directories in english language out there and from that huge number you may select a few hundreds for your site plus a few dozen or more for particular special topic-subsections of your site. The total of actually useful directories OUT of your entire 10+k database you may use at max may be 1000. But having those 10+k directory URLs in your submitter database will give you an easy option to follow up and observe these directories in future PR updates of future years of your web publishing work / life.A computer assisted submission software like the one I use has the option of checking for directory 404 and updated PR just for a single click - after that single click your computer may WORK nonstop for MANY hours to update your directory database - for free ! A work you NEVER could do manually - even for thousands of $ - because manually such monthly or more frequent verification may used hundreds of hours each time. A waste of time you most likely never can afford because you love to be successful, thus you need to be efficient and professional!

While in some of the worlds largest webmaster forum many people say that there are no 10'000 directories out there - there are simple methods to prove that such statements are short sighted and simply WRONG. But certainly correct is that by far only a small share of ALL existing directories are of any real promotional value. But looking at the BILLIONS of NON-english sites like major Asian languages such as Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, etc there are thousands or more valuable and useful non-english directories valuable to millions of site owners.

Use tools and official resources to find a more accurate guess of how many directories actually exist. The worlds most popular professional directory software certainly is PHP Link Directory - until a few days ago I found a statement:

"phpLD is now the most widely used directory script on the internet. Our customers have tested the script on over 50,000 websites, ..."

Even if many might be down - that means that from one directory software alone might be 10k or more directories on the web. In addition there are many other software packages doing same or similar jobs. Thus on an ever growing www in all countries combined are definitely far more than 10'000 directories. Some of them might be just ideal for your own site promotion.

Currently and commonly circulating directory lists usually are limited to english language sites / directories. English being a global language - there still is a tiny majority of the world population speaking english. USA market is 5% of the global market. There is a need for most of us to find the directories of our own native language or of additional languages we master sufficiently to publish.

How to find the directories of your own country or language ?

Here a few valuable tips that help you to create your custom made directory list of your own language or country. You need to know the common word for directory in the language you need directories and you need to master Google search syntax to get your results. Here below a few examples for German, Italian and Russian directories. Of course NOT all sites having a directory have named the folder or domain in a proper SEO optimized word, nor do all foreign language sites use their language TLD. Hence for the below Russian example you change your Google search syntax to another TLD commonly used in that country and repeat the search again.

Below are a few example searches for native language directory URLs to be googled:

1. site:.de inurl:webkatalog
2. site:.it inurl:directory
3. site:.ru inurl:Каталог
4. site:.com inurl:Каталог

That's the easy work above. What comes now are hundreds of hours of manual surfing on a REALLY fast www access, best using Firefox in tab mode and click / open a dozen or more of your found search results at a time. Then physically VIEW the site to see if it really is a directory, if yes does it look public and is that site a quality site. To have such data at a glance you definitely need alexa data and PR displayed. Firefox users know how to get both to work professionally and efficiently.

If you outsource above work of manual surfing all potential directory URL, then you are a fool because you are outsourcing the success of your site and future. Do it yourself, work day and night, if necessary weeks or more! ALL the important work in life always should be done all by your own. You KNOW your site, you know your future goals and priorities, you only know the quality requirements you have for yourself and your own life.

If a site is a potential directory for your later submission.! Later because to submit just to a single directory at a time makes no sense, its a waste of time. You need to have records of your submission, you need to have a control and records about WHICH page - i.e. domain or one of your many major subsections you submitted to a directory. You need a method of verification, a method to instantly publish your reciprocal links if required. To do the latter by FTP would be simply ridiculous. FTP takes many seconds at least or more. Each time for each reciprocal link published. Most modern directory submission management software verifies that reciprocal link URL on your site immediately following your "submit" click. Hence that second the link needs to be online/live in most cases.

The wrong directories used may create a bad neighborhood for you

As a professional web publisher you know of Google's criteria of being in a good neighborhood. Else study the topic! If others link to you, that's fine. No matter what site links to you, there never can be a penalty because you have no real control of people linking to you. But if YOU link to a bad neighborhood, if you link to poor quality sites, to questionable sites, to warez sites, to xxx sites, to hobby sites, to hobby blogs, then you are compared to the quality level of the sites YOU love - because you link to sites you love, do you ? As a general rule you only should link to sites you appreciate, you know, you have visited, used or verified yourself, to reputable sites. HIGH Googel PR may be an indicator that Google values that site.

For that reason you should be selective when choosing your directory list you want to submit because some of them may require a reciprocal link - a link from your site to their site. OR some of them may require a link from your site to a 3rd party site. That's also called 3 way linking strategy - A links to B, B links to C and C links to A to avoid reciprocal links. That latter you have to be careful. Look at the domain name and if necessary at the site before placing a link. If the site is questionable, then you may as well refrain from using that particular directory asking you to link to to stay your self in a good neighborhood.

To be in a high quality neighborhood also may affect your overall advertisement revenue. Serious professional companies love to promote / sell their services or products on serious and quality oriented professional sites. The difference might be an eCPM of a few $ only vs a 2 digits eCPM or near that. Being quality oriented professional vs hobby publisher may make the difference between real and life time success vs failure for life!

Make up your mind, make your choices - go professional and prove your professional attitude. Be ready to work harder, longer, more and more precisely. What you learn now and practice now is what you adapt as an eternal habit to do in all you do, in your family and love life as well for all eternity!

You may also want to read my previous article to learn the benefits of semi-automated Directory Submitter tool vs pure manual directory submission.

God bless

hans

P.S.:

There are many different semi-automate - I call it computer assisted manual - submission tools out there. The one I use for my work is Directory Submisster v3.0. A link for a free demo version valid for 10 days and coming with a limited directory list - enough to keep you busy for days is available. Try it, compare it to other comparable submitter SW, then make your own choice based on your own preferences.

If you happen to use the Directory Submitter v3.0 - independent how or from where you got it, free demo version or full version, then you may receive a current version of my own self created custom directory list in XML format. I use of course the DS 3.0 full version that comes already with some 4000 directories. My own custom list adds another few thousand directories to the existing list totalling some 7000 directories. That custom list includes a few hundred directories already accumulated in the languages fr, it, es, de. I offer strictly NO download link for that file because these days I work daily using that list myself and I update and correct / delete bad entries on a daily base. By eMail you always get a free copy of my own most current custom directory list for your own greatest benefits. May be sometimes in the near future that custom directory list may become part of the official DS 3.0 ? I have of course shared the list of all accumulated directories with the original software developer of that fine SW. To fully integrate this custom list however takes a huge amount of time and thus $ and hence may take a while until done.

How to qualify for a free copy of my own custom directory list ?

Send me a screen shot of your Directory Submitter 3.0 by eMail and the URL of your site. If your site has a validated HTML on the domain start page, then you qualify for a free copy of the XML file. Your site has to be on a domain registered in your own name and your name is equal to the name of your eMail and published in the WHOIS records to assure you are a serious professional web publisher.

Hence to receive a free directory list you need to:

• have your site valid HTML - never dream of submitting a site with erros in HTML to serioius directoris !! Quality in all you do - also in HTML!
• have your own site in your own name on a regular hosting server - NO free hosting sites - NO free blogs !! NO warez, NO xxx, NO sites with BLACK background. Only human friendly sites please.
• that means you include the valid URL of your site in your email to me
• include a screenshot of your Directory Submitter 3.0 - full version or demo version

Nothing more and nothing less will qualify for that extra directory list in XML format. This file is specially created for re-import in Directory Submitter 3.0 and is of NO use to user of OTHER submitter SW users ! If you use XYZ software, then you have your reason and thus you also may find the motivation, power and $ needed to create your own custom list for your own SW chosen.

Warning: Directory Submitter 3.0 working only for English language / ASCII characters

For details on the limited use of Directory Submitter 3.0 please read my recent article on reciprocal link page data loss by Directory Submitter 3.0. If your pages and the directories you submit to are strictly English language and use strictly ASCII character set without any Latin characters such as the many European languages, Eastern European languages or Asian, Central or Southamerican languages - then DS3.0 might be perfect for you. If however you come from outside USA or publish for the global community in any NON-English language, then you should first carefully read and make up your mind before deciding for a particular Submitter tool.

What is definitely valid for Directory Submitter 3.0 may also be valid for many other tools lacking integration of internationalization by proper use of the full UTF8 and Latin character set.

God bless

hans