Paid directories are great for link building and getting high quality backlinks. Usually paid directories receive huge traffic and give you the most benefit for your submission.

Paid directories charge a fee to limit number of submissions or spam submissions.

Submissions in paid directories also give a higher PR and higher positions in Google search results.

Here is my fresh list of 10 best paid directories for your site.

Yahoo Directory - has to be the most popular directory to be listed in. It’s expensive but is worthwhile especially if you have a potentially profitable site. Basic fee is $299 per year. Yahoo Directory has Google PageRank 8 and thousands of quality backlinks including edu and gov. For more information about submission check here. Yahoo Directory was founded in 1995.

Business.com - is a very successful general directory that has been online since 1998. Annual fee is $299. Google PR 7. For more details check here.

Botw - the original “Best of the Web” got its start in 1994. Google PR 7. Annually recurring charge $149.95, one-time only charge $299.95.

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“DoFollow is the opposite of “NoFollow”. The no follow tag tells the search engines not to follow the link and not to pass on any credibility to any other web sites. Most of popular resources have “nofollow” feature enabled. This made effective link building difficult for both honest website owners and spammers.

You can get backlinks to your articles and by adding them for free to dofollow social and bookmarking sites.

Here is my fresh list of 31 DoFollow Social and Bookmarking Sites ordered by Google PageRank:

PR 9

http://slashdot.org/

PR 8

http://digg.com/

http://reddit.com/

http://folkd.com/

http://mister-wong.com/

http://squidoo.com/

http://mixx.com/

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Press releases are great for getting quality backlinks and additional traffic to your site. It’s very similar to article submission - by submitting your press releases you can get targeted visitors, backlinks and increase search rankings of your site.

If you haven’t tried press releases yet - I highly recommend you to do that. Press release submission is extremely effective for SEO and link building.

Most of press release directories have good Google PR and Alexa Rank. These directories place direct links to your site without rel=”nofollow” attribute, so your site gets link juice and Google PR.

One of the best advantages of press releases is that your release could be published on many resources with direct links to your site. For that reason press release submission is great link building tool.

Here is my fresh list of 28 best press release submission sites with Google PR 4-7 for press release submission. Directories are ordered by Google PageRank.

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