I createa a Backlinks directory with submission status tracking
We all submit our products to directories. Not many people complain about how painful it is.
I've been submitting my product to directories for a couple of months already. It goes like that:
- It's impossible to predict if the link is dofollow. Fill out a form with 15 fields, wait for a week, and be listed — but it will turn out to be nofollow.
- Zero DR. Sometimes I would have 30 tabs opened in Ahrefs to check if the directory is worth 20 minutes of my time.
- Each directory has its own set of unwritten rules. Put yourself in the wrong category, use free email address or write a commercial description, and the chances are high you'll be rejected without any explanation why.
- About half of the "500 free directories" lists are outdated. I checked the last 168 of them. There are 10 of the dead domains in there, including 2 at DR 80 that appear on every single list people post.
- It's hard to keep track of what you submitted. After three weeks I simply didn't know which sites I submitted, which were pending and which had already rejected me. Even though I used a spreadsheet.
So I've created Where To Submit (https://wheretosubmit.org).
- More than 500 submission sites
- DR of each site
- Type of link (dofollow/nofollow), which I've actually verified, no guessing
- Tips how to submit your product in hand-written form, for more than 150 sites
- Filter the list based on whether a site is submitted/approved/rejected
- Remove the dead sites from the list when I find them
Let me be honest with you: tips exists for about 150 sites, not 500, and link type is verified in about half of them. The other half I left blank because I think guessing makes all other lists worthless.
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