Getting your home based business listed with quality directories greatly increases your search engine ranking, visibility and traffic. In order to get high quality backlinks, you must have a high quality site because they all go through human editing and approval.

When you submit to and are accepted by some of the smaller quality directories, and have high quality backlinks, it greatly increases your chances of your home based business website being accepted by major directories like Yahoo and DMOZ. It also helps with your page ranking by Google. Google typically follows all the others.

The Directory Sites listed below and on the homepage of this site are all Google PR3 or above. This ensures quality backlinks to your home based business. Sometimes having a few quality backlinks is deemed better than having a lot of "garbage" backlinks just for the sake of having them. The "garbage" sites can and will hurt your page ranking with Google and your acceptance by the larger directories, hence your traffic and your home based business will suffer.

Many Directories require that you put a link on your sight to theirs before you submit your home based business URL to them. This also allows you to have FREE submission too get your home based business viewed by a large population.

This list of "Quality Directories" will continue to grow as I submit Information Online Center-Home Based Business Information Center to be approved by more quality directories.

The Directory Submitter is a neat little tool that stores all the information for your home based business site so that you don't have to keep typing the same information again and again as you submit your site for approval and acceptance.

What is even better is that it comes in both a FREE version to let you submit to 350 directories with/without reciprocal links depending on the directory and a version that you buy that allows you to submit directories with one-way links. If you are just starting your home based business, you can use the FREE version to get you up and ranked and then switch to the paid version for the maximum benefit of one-way links which definately increase search engine ranking and Google Page Rank.

• Directory Submitter has already located the Directory websites for you.
• It stores all your information so you do not have to keep typing the same information again and again
• It saves you massive amounts of time for both directory search and the keying of your home based business information.
• Both the FREE version with/without reciprocal links and the paid version with one-way links provide this service.
• Both the FREE version and the paid version track which sites you have submitted to. This avoids duplicate submissions which could be viewed as spam.

This program is extremely valuable to the promotion of your home based business and either version will benefit you. In the long term, once you have established your home based business, the one-way links, already located for you saving you time and with the time savings on keying your information in will give you the greatest return of profits for your home based business.