A practical guide to submitting your site to directories

If you've made a personal site or a small project page, the best traffic in the world for it is not from a search engine. It's from a directory or random-button site that already attracts people who like exactly that kind of thing.

These directories are usually one-person operations. You submit a link, the maintainer takes a look, and if they like it, it goes in. The bar is "is this a real human who made something interesting" rather than "does this rank well." That makes the ratio of good visitors very high.

Some practical advice: - Make sure the site loads quickly and works on mobile. - Have a one-line description ready that says what it is, not who you are. - Don't submit a homepage that's just a list of links to other places. Submit something that ends at itself. - Be patient, most directories are run by humans on their lunch breaks.

If you've got something, this site has a "Add a website" button in the footer. Submissions are read by a real person.