Help your website get found

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So you  have just launched a brand new website, now to get it found one way to help this is registering with some of the online directories, this is a cheap or often free and effective way to promote your business.

So which directories to register with?

Free sites

DMOZ – This is the main free directory to get listed with.

Google Places (Google Local Business) – This site will get you on Google maps

Aboutus.org – The Wiki of website directories

Brownbook.net – The business directory you can edit yourself

freeindex.co.uk -A popular free directory

hotfroguk.co.uk – The free online business profile site

Paid for sites

Yahoo directory – You may also wish consider registering with the Yahoo Directory, it is expensive but hold a heavy weight to other search engines.

Business.com – This a high Page Ranked directory, which  should give your site some authority to the search engines

directoryvault.com – Directory Vault does offer a free listing however the low cost express service might be a better option.

Best of the Web – The Best of the web directory site has been around since 1996. The site does have very good search results in Google. They alosreceive quite a bit of traffic (Alexa rank under 5000).