Building links plays a vital role of achieving success with search engines and I have dealt with clients that had excellent websites, but was not getting any traffic. One thing that I've always tried to tell them is to make sure they get quality relevant links if they can, but even newer directories can help.
Building links to a site can be difficult, and time consuming for a website, but as an seo with great experience and knowing the trade secrets to achieving high ranking it can be quite easy, below are some things I have listed that are important as a website owner that is trying to get more traffic to there site.
Directory submissions would be one important vital aspect of ranking and I would have to say this is something that you will start up in the beginning, and if you don't have links to several directory websites don't worry I'll get into that later, but building links up in directories can give your credibility in search engines.
It also depends on the quality of the directories that you are submitting to, and i would say more higher quality directories do have an effect on your rankings, but then again even the newer ones work, so always give it a start with some directory submissions (Check the link out at the bottom for listings).
Article submissions plays another part of seo, and good rankings. I always try to plug my url into a site if possible, and when I say plug a url, that means with your website url / domain. When you do this always make sure to use your keyword as your anchor text.
Articles also can give your website “exposure”, and explain to whoever is viewing it what you actually do, and offer. A lot of the times if you write an interesting article that someone has been impressed with, most of the time they will link it.
The purpose of writing articles mainly is to gain exposure, and to achieve more links to your site, and we know when we achieve more links to our website we gain more credibility with the search engines, always keep in mind to check your directories that your submitting to that they are good neighborhood directories.
I would have to say that there is many more important factors that involve seo, and good rankings with the search engines, but to learn more about directories, and how to gain exposure to search engines check out http://www.indianawebsitedesign.net. There is a nice listing of directories there to choose from, submission services, and seo services.
