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Directory submission is one of the time consuming and monotonous task in the process of search engine optimization. There are many online companies who provide directories submission services, but I recommend you to do it on your own. For this, you need to have a list of free web directories.

Since submitting your website to directories is very time consuming, you need to have some tools to make it fast and easy. I use Firefox browser for my directory submission task because it has tabbed browsing feature. This is the most I like about Firefox. Yes, there are other browsers too that has tabbed browsing feature but they do not have supported addons for form filling purpose in web directories.

Different Firefox addons are available on the internet to form the web forms. I personally use mostly two of the addons whenever I have to submit my sites to web directories or fill up the sign up forms. Both of them are free and you can download from the links provided below.

1. AI Roboform
   AI Roboform is one of the most popular and widely used toolbar for Firefox. It has many useful features as a form filler and as a password manager. It is very easy to use and simple to set up. With this toolbar, you can fill the forms automatically. Free version of AI Roboform limits you to set upto three custom fields. For more custom fields, you have to upgrade it to Pro version.
   Download AI Roboform
2. Form Filler
   It is an extension for Firefox which is mainly designed for directory submissions. Its free and very simple to use. You can fill more information and deep links from that of AI Roboform.
   Download Form Filler

To install form filler, click the link above, save it in ‘Desktop’ and drag it to Firefox browser.

At present, there are millions and millions of websites that make difficult for your website to become popular. In this situation, one of the search engine optimization tasks is directory submission that helps your site to gain link popularity.

Directory submission is one of the effective methods to increase link popularity for your website by simply submitting your link to the directory. In order to include your link to the directory that you have submitted, the editor of that directory will first examine and then approve depending upon their submission rules.

The websites are managed according to the categories and groups to make easier for the users (visitors) for searching a particular website. Along with directory submission, your website needs to have quality content, optimize the keywords and adopt effective marketing strategies to increase your website traffic and overall popularity.

Your website services are exposed to wide range of customers through directory submissions that cannot be achieved from search engines. For instance, when a user clicks on the link of a particular website, it is more likely that the same user will also visit other sites within the same category. Directories even use some of the SEO techniques to improve your website’s directory rank.  To understand in another way, directory places your website higher in the category where your link is located as the increase in your website traffic.

Website popularity also depends upon other methods of effective link building apart from directory submission. In addition, to increase link popularity, the link should come from highly reputed websites which can be recognized by the search engines. Generally, website ranking in the search engine’s result page is determined by two possible ways; link popularity and web content. Search engines assume that your site is of high quality if reputed websites are link to you and rank in their results page according to it.

So, link building is one of the important parts of SEO process where directory submission plays a vital role in building quality backlinks. One should not forget the importance of directory submission as it is a method of marketing your website for the search engines. Today, there are thousands of directories available online to submit your website to. Here is the list of free web directories.