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Begin by selecting two keywords which are different from the keywords for which you are already ranked well. Then try and locate another category which is applicable for your site and submit your site there with a new description which contains the two new keywords you have selected.

If you are lucky, you may be able to get a listing in this new category, especially if the editor of this category is different from the editor of the category where your site is already listed. 

Again, if the second category to which you want to submit your site is a regional category (i.e. a category applicable to the geographical region in which your company is located), that again improves your chance of getting a second listing. Alternatively, if you were originally listed in one of the regional categories, then getting your site registered by one of the general categories is also possible.

However, you have a much better chance of getting a second listing if you submit one of the internal pages of your site to a different category (assuming you can locate a category which is applicable for that particular page), rather than again submitting the home page. For instance, if you type in 1stSearchRanking.com in Open Directory's search box, you will notice that my site has three listings - the home page of my site, the page linking to all my articles and the page which contains my article on choosing the correct keywords for a site.

Submitting an internal page has the benefit that the Title no longer needs to be the official name of your company. This allows you to include keywords in the Title. For instance, the listing for the page containing my articles has the title of "Search Engine Positioning Articles", which, of course, has no relation to the name of my company - 1st Search Engine Ranking.com. 

Before submitting one of the internal pages of your site, you should change the title of the page (here, by "title", I mean the Title tag of the page, i.e. the Title that is displayed at the top of the browser window when the page is opened) to the Title that you want the page to be listed under in the Open Directory. This improves the chance that the Open Directory editor will accept the title that you had submitted.

However, don't go overboard with submitting internal pages - you can be penalized for spamming. Don't start submitting any doorway pages that you have created - they will be rejected. Any internal page that you submit must provide some unique content and must be relevant to the category to which you want to submit the page.

Click here for advice on achieving your first listing in Open Directory.

Article by Sumantra Roy. Sumantra is one of the most respected and recognized search engine positioning specialists on the Internet. For more articles on search engine placement, subscribe to his 1st Search Ranking Newsletter by sending a blank email to mailto:1stSearchRanking-subscribe@listbot.com or by going to http://www.1stSearchRanking.com

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