SEO-friendly Link Directories in Hungary – A Brief Introduction

While in many places the role played by the different types of link directories in terms of both link building and searching is falling, in Hungary the genre is more popular than ever but shows some unique properties nowhere else to find. Therefore it could be rather interesting for search engine marketing professionals from other language markets to acquaint themselves with the world of the Hungarian web directories.

Hungarian web directories can be split into two large classes by their structure and by the underlying logic: the first group contains startpagina-clones and the second group consists of traditional link catalogues. Startpagina-clone Pages The format was born in The Netherlands, the initial page is located at the address startpagina.nl. Several lookalikes exist in the Benelux countries, however besides that this kind of directories is only present substantially in Hungary, and, thanks to its huge success in Hungary, Hungarian webmasters are trying out similar pages in some other language areas.

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Directory Submission Service

Directory submission offers many benefits to webmasters. Most people perform directory submission to increase the backlinks to their websites. The links which are pointed from the directories to your website are do follow. Do follow backlinks will always be recognized by the search engine. The do follow attribute informs the search engine to crawl the link. When you have a lot of links from directories, the search engine will be more likely to crawl your website.

If your website is new, performing directory submission will get it indexed. You can expect your website to be indexed within a few days after your entries are approved by the editors. The more directory links you have, the higher the position of your search engine ranking will be. When submitting to directories, make sure you don’t use the same title, and descriptions. You have to use different titles and descriptions so that your listing will get indexed in the search engine. You don’t have to write unique title and description for each directory. You can use the same title and description for 40 – 50 directories.

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