Omnibius – A Spanish directory submitter

Mar 25, 2010 by

Omnibius – A Spanish directory submitter

Omnibius is a free directory submission tool developed by a Spanish developer. Although it has an English interface and some English directories too, this tool basically focuses on Spanish directories. You can register and download the necessary Firefox add-on at http://www.omnibius.com

The reason why we describe this link submitter in more detail is — apart from featuring a great list of Spanish directories — that this tool has some really unique features which cannot be seen elsewhere.

The directory submission interface

The Omnibius directory submitter tool is built on a rather interesting concept: while the basic info about the promoted web sites can be accessed and edited through a web interface, the whole link building process is assisted by a Firefox add-on displaying the necessary controls on a simlpe Firefox toolbar:

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The first part of the toolbar controls all the basic functions like login/logout, a link to the Omnibius homepage and the directory filter where you can create a customised set of directories to submit your site to:omnibius-toolbar-2

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Having generated the desired list of web directories you can choose between your web sites previously added through the Omnibius web interface and also choose a set of Title / Description with the next elements of the toolbar. omnibius-toolbar-3(Here “dodod” stands for the name of the web site while “A Blog about Directory Lists” is the Title I chose.). Clicking on the Title the magic will happen: if you happen to do this while visiting a directory submission form, chances are high that the fields will be automagically filled with the data you set before starting the link building process.

With the following icons you can kind of annotate the directories: whether you have submitted your site and also if you have found your link in the directory or not:omnibius-toolbar-4

These icons —perhaps you will use them the most— serve for navigating through the directory list:omnibius-toolbar-5

Whenever you click on the next button, the content of these field will be changed showing the name of the actual link directory, the Page Rank value and whether is it paid or requires reciprocal links. Simly clicking on the name of the directory, it will be loaded by your browser, so you can start finding the right category and then the “add URL” button too:omnibius-toolbar-6

The last elements in this toolbar would facilitate the user feedback on the listed directories: you can see comments, vote, report inappropriate data about the directory or report if the site is not working or not a directory anymore.omnibius-toolbar-7

As you can see this toolbar helps you to access a lot of handy functions but does not eat up much screen real estate. In my opinion this is the reason why technically speaking Omnibius is one of the best directory submission tools which can handle any directories not only directories powered by a specific directory script.

The web interface

Although not as nice as the UI of the Firefox add-on, the Omnibius web site where you can edit and access all the necessary info about your sites and the submission process is also packed with a lot of features:

omnibius-web-interfaceThe directory lists

At the time of writing Omnibius has more than 900 SEO-friendly directories listed. The two third of these directories are Spanish web directories. This is quite an usable list while the other lists of directories are rather outdated, so for an English link building campaign this tool is practically useless.

omnibius-directory-listThe system also tracks a whole lot of data about the listed directories: you can even see how some key parameters of a directory changed in the past such as Page Rank, number of external links, number of pages listed in search engines, etc.:

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Directory submission tools

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Perhaps the most comprehensive and most up-to-date directory lists can be found at different web directory submitters a.k.a. directory submission tools. The reason for that is being a part of a (many times paid) service it is the owners interest to keep the lists continously actualized. On the other hand many of these submitter tools allow users — who have ordered the submission tool or signed up for membership — to give feedback on the directories listed. Therefore if a directory is down or the submission is closed, the users can inform about these problems the owner of the submission tool with just clicking one button.

Directory submitters working with one directory script

If a directory submission tool can handle only those directories which are powered by a certain link directory script — for instance PHP Link Directory — it not only means that such a tool can be created with less efforts, but  these type of directory submitters generally offer a more sophisticated user interface and better functions. On the other hand the directories listed in these specialized directory submitters tend to be less usable.

One good example for directory submission tools with usable directory lists is digiXMAS. Although this tool does not offer any public lists of directories, having paid for the service you will be able to access an impressive list of PHP Link Directory-based directories consisting of more than two thousand directories. The reason why this tool collects only those directories which are built with the most popular directory script is that digiXMAS can interact with  PHP Link Directory Script. As for the quality of the digiXMAS directory list: perhaps the biggest problem is that many low-quality or better to say useless directories are also included given that the owner of this tool thinks that no external link can cause a penalty in ranking.

General directory submitter tools

Directory subbitters designed to handle virtually any directory — no matter wich directory script they are powered by — tend to be less usable simply because these tools can only handle the different directories on a more general level. While offering less help in speeding up the directory submission process, these tools let you access a wider range of directories — not only those which are powered by a popular directory script, but some other, generally more valuable link collections too.

Although a free directory submission tool cannot generate enough revenue to cover the costs of maintaining an extensive link directory list, there are some directory submission tools which have quite usable lists, for instance the Omnibius tool, which is a neat combination of a Firefox add-on and a web-based submission service for completely free (you can check out the directories on Omnibius’ homepage). Although the tool collects some English web directories — since the developer of this tool is a Spanish speaker —, this tool is the most usable for Spanish-language directory submissions. Unfortunately quite a few directories are defunct or has been transformed into a paid or reciprocal directory without these changes being reflected in the lists.

One of the most accurate and up-to-date directory lists I have ever seen is maintained by a German directory submission tool: Fastbacklink.de. This tool offers an awesome list of more than four thousand link directories, but the vast majority of these lists are German-language link collections, so this tool is usable only for those who build links on the German web. The biggest shortcoming of this directory list (and of course the tool itself) is that you cannot filter the directories by topics. Having listed hundreds of niche and regional directories the lack of proper categorisation wastes you a lot of time while using this submitter.

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