Can listings in directories help my rank on Google?

Google leading search engine considers several actors in its ranking algorithm, firstly it considers text content of a sites web pages and decides what theme it belongs to.

Next it looks at number of links inbound to each page, particularly important are links from related themed web pages.

So a web page about domain names, using key phrase domain name registration with lots of links inbound from related sites such as other domain registration will do well.

Search engines can take one of several forms. Firstly there are pure search engines such as Google (the leading search engine), which send out spiders or robots to scan web pages.

Next there are meta search engines such as dogpile, which combine search engine results from multiple search engines.

Then there are directories, typically these have some search characteristics of pure search engines, but require websites to be manually submitted and reviewed before inclusion.

Directories often have human editors.

How do I get a good ranking in search engines? I am asked this a lot!

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