About Us
DexDir is a quality index of the known available online English language web directories. These directories in turn index the web and promote the world's websites. Afterall, if no one knows about about your online presence/service, how will anyone find it? Directories announce to the world that your site is available. Search engines such as Google, Bing and others pay attention to where you are listed and how much.
Not all directory listings are created equal either. If, for instance, you are marketing to a US audience and your listing only shows in Indian directories (India is widely considered an English speaking nation with an extremely large network of web directories), then the search engines see that your presence-of-mind promotion campaign is lost on a forgeign audience outside of your targeted marketing region. This can significantly lower your regional marketing efforts.
This is why DexDir manually looks-up the directory's host IP and adds the country of origin for the IP to each listing. This affords users who are marketing to a particular region, for instance, the opportunity to skip directories and indexing services which don't actually have traffic or a marketing identity in their targeted locale.
Furthermore, some links aren't even seen as links in the search engines these days. Google and Bing now allow websites to disassociate themselves with the websites they link to by including a "donotfollow" attribute in the hyperlink code. That means that if you spend 20 minutes or so setting up a backlink to your website, in certain directories the link is appended with a "donotfollow" attibute and then the search engines themselves will not credit that link back to your site because they purposely ignore it. As unfair as that is, we don't allow any such dishonesty in our index of directories and any such submissions from deceptive directories that don't want to be associated with who they are promoting, such sites are denied and the listing deleted. You won't have such worries in our index.
Since there are literally tens of thousands of web directories available to us to promote our websites out there, these simple and logical steps to only approve fair directory services allows our DexDir users the ability to concentrate on building a better base of backlinks to their site by selecting services which offer the regional audience they are looking to market to. This will save webmasters a great deal of time in wasted efforts submitting to directories that don't count or by choosing web directories within their required regional marketing influence.
DexDir also strengthens the position of the directory itself, allowing it to find a more native audience to market more effectively to. And yes, DexDir is the first such directory of directories we know of to offer such a service, which in hindsight is long, long overdue on this date of its introduction on August 10th, 2011.
DexDir's Regular and Featured listing records are valid for the life of the original hyperlink submission resource. Regular listings require a reciprocal link (prove your directory works). Featured listings show above regular reciprocal listings.
DexDir only accepts listings for quality directories which actively index. Only featured listings may submit deep links. All other listings may only submit high level domain addresses (ie: http://www.foosite.com, http://dir.foosite.com & http://foosite.com).
Featured listings are reviewed as quickly as possible. Please allow up to 4 days for featured listing submission reviews just in case DexDir is on a long holiday weekend. Support of the DexDir directory index through paid links encourages us to keep the directory up-to-date. Therefore, upon receiving payment for featured directory listing we review a number of the regular reciprocal link listing submissions in the que, as well.
The DexDir administration reserves the right to reject or delete any listing record for any reason.
Refunds
Any paid listing submission that follows the DexDir submission guidelines and is rejected will be refunded any accompanying listing submission fee. However, we do not refund for paid listing submissions that do not conform to these submission guidelines, so do read our Directory Listing Submission Guidelines. There is a wealth of information there to assure you a successful submission.
Your support of our efforts at DexDir is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your patronage!
- The entire DexDir Team |