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List of Web Design Directories Links from niche directories are of more value in SEO than submitting to general directories, and there are a number of specialized directories catering exclusively for web designers. Below are some of those.
Many of these require a reciprocal link and which have fallen out of favor since Google declared against “excessive reciprocal linking”; but in moderation it is fine as Matt Cutts talked about in 2007 – “Trading links is natural and it’s natural to have reciprocal links. At some level, natural reciprocal links happen, but if you do it way too often, it looks artificial.”
This is more than a directory and is intended as means for a client to quickly receive a quote for a job from a wide range of design companies. UK only.
The submission rules read: “If you are submitting a portfolio, design firm, or resource site, please select the most appropriate category and do not use “Best Design Showcase”. We will select the best to be placed in that category. You may however submit client sites or sites you think do have the best design to be placed in “Best Design Showcase”. Not all sites will be approved. Only well designed or sites with useful resources will be considered.”
Web-Development.com is a directory of Web design companies. We ONLY add Web design company websites to our directory. In the future we plan to add additional categories for related companies such as Web hosting companies and domain name registrars, but at this time we are only accepting submissions for Web design companies.
The Web Design Directory UK is a new venture and is totally free.
And last but not least is my own directory for web designers and webmasters here: http://www.suburban-glory.com/directory.html. It is free to submit to.
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Andy Walpole is a web designer and developer
On his blog he writes about website design, development, marketing, usability and social media: http://www.suburban-glory.com/blog.html
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 11:42
Great List, we have used many of the suggested directories.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 20:52
Awesome List of Directories, Still some are worthy after panda.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 20:51
Awesome List of Directories, shows that some are still worthy even after panda hammered on a lot of things.
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 12:01
Finally found this useful article, I’ve been looking for it. Great list, thank you and I would like to check’em all.
Saturday, October 15th, 2011 20:54
I simply must tell you that you have done a great job. I strongly believe that these directories will help me to increase my site rank. Thank you!
Friday, September 9th, 2011 17:53
Hey Andy –
A lot of people have slated directories over recent years, saying :
- they’re not relevant
- there’s no SEO value
– they’re spammy
and a myriad other reasons.
But I love a good directory. You can’t beat it -yeah, the less well kempt directories may be full of crap, but there is a reason that directories are still, and always will be, relevant.
That reason is that as humans, we love to catalogue, categorise and pigeon-hole things. We can’t help ourselves. Putting things in a nice, little neat package of relevant-ness is what we do as a species.
And finding things that are bundled into nice, little neat packages of things relevant to what we’re looking for delights us just as much.
We’re all bloody librarians ;-)
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 20:31
Thank you for posting, nice collection :)
Friday, July 8th, 2011 21:23
Thanks for the tips! I will be sure to give them a try. BTW, the rules to the Dexigner directory is dead.
Sunday, May 15th, 2011 04:20
Great article.
Super resource!
Thanks!
Monday, November 22nd, 2010 05:13
Free to submit to for UK web designers but a reciprocal is required
Monday, November 8th, 2010 06:19
Very interesting topic, I enjoyed reading your blog and you have some really good tips I can use Thanks.
Friday, November 5th, 2010 16:10
excellent list really great and detailed information. will come in handy as I’m always looking at ways to get better at designing. thanks andy
Sunday, September 5th, 2010 19:56
Good list of links – still a big believer of DMOZ; however, be prepared to wait ages to get SEO recognition on the directory. *sigh
Question though, does posting a North American link on a UK directory help with SEO though?
Thursday, August 26th, 2010 14:22
Great list thanks for posting!
Saturday, June 12th, 2010 22:16
it is a very interesting article.keep it up.Thank you very much
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Dainis Graveris
Friday, August 14th, 2009 23:06
Yes, I must thank you to Andy too, I was aware only about 1 of these to be honest! Very useful to build stronger PageRank:)
gouthami.b
Friday, November 13th, 2009 08:46
Good colletion dude.I will try them….
Mario Spencer
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 16:11
Thax a lot Bro..
Excelente Post
Andy Bailey
Monday, September 21st, 2009 21:15
Oh dear, looks like I might spend an entire afternoon at work going through this post and then probably the rest of the week on the other posts! thanks for listing so many places for me to improve my skills in seo. :-)
Teresa Schultz
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 12:37
Thanks for this great list. It is worrying, though, about not being quite sure how many out-going links one should consider safe to include in a site. Also, I decided on only ten links in my “link exchange” at the bottom of my page rank 4 homepage, so if web design directories want a reciprocal link on my homepage, where am I supposed to put it? – hm, will have to think about this.
Jason
Monday, December 14th, 2009 19:15
I didn’t realise most of these existed, especially the UK ones!
Ray
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 05:15
This is a great list for anyone looking to expand into the web design industry. Relevancy is always a big undertaking at first, but this resource definitely makes the first few important steps a lot easier. Great post!
Amdzines - Web Designer India
Monday, January 18th, 2010 02:11
These are a good list of web design directories. however, a couple of them ask for USA zip code.
joe
Monday, December 21st, 2009 19:34
Hello,
Using Blog to raise SEO ranking- Is it best to be on the front homepage of the site or can it be on a 2nd page
Really great post, enjoyed reading it. Thanks,
joe
Rooturaj
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 10:23
Good collection. Shared and bookmarked to submit my sites latter. Looking forward to more such informative posts.
Del
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 12:03
Great list I have herd to get in the Dmoz directory is a must which has a high pr
Eric B.
Friday, August 14th, 2009 23:55
Thanks for the links. I will be submitting my site to some of these!
Brian Yerkes
Friday, August 14th, 2009 23:00
Nice roundup Andy, I just submitted my link to a number of these. Thanks for sharing!
Luis Lopez
Friday, August 14th, 2009 22:52
Great article Andy, I see you know a lot about design directories, because I’ve been looking for and I only had like 4 really design related, but Thanks I’ll use them.
Matt Gorden
Saturday, August 15th, 2009 15:04
I checked through this list & submitted one of my web 2.0 design service website to few of them. But webmasterindex.co.uk directory is not a strictly web-designer’s niche directory. Rather its a UK specific general directory. Hence I suggest to remove it from your list.
Thanks