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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Twitter is getting more and more popular. It’s a great tool for learning SEO and tracking SEO industry news.

Twitter can be fantastic place for getting link building ideas and new search engine marketing tips. Many underground conversations go on within Twitter that never make it to the blogosphere and SEO blogs. Twitter conversations can be extremely useful for ranking high on search engine.

Here is my list of top 1o SEO gurus you should follow on Twitter.

@SEJournal -  Search Engine Journal - established in 2003 by Loren Baker, is a publication of Search & Social Media, LLC, which specializes in a community approach to the reporting of search engine news & the sharing of Search Engine Marketing knowledge & tactics.

@annsmarty - Ann is the Associate Editor of Search Engine Journal, a seasoned SEO blogger and manages guest bloggers on Search Engine Journal. Ann’s posts usually revolve around lists of SEO resources, SEO tool reviews and other technical SEO issues.

@sengineland - Search Engine Land, famous resource for SEO news and information about search engine marketing, optimization and how search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live.com and Ask.com work for searchers.

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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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