Web Directories

**allison eden** · 03-20-2008, 03:43 AM

hi all,

My question is How to Choose a Directory for Submission?

i know that know one bother about directory while submission, because we are getting one way link from them. But quality of links matter than quantity.

1) Find out if the directory is indexed by the topmost search engines. If it has not been cached by search engines for a long period of time, there is definitely no point in submitting your links on it.

2)Established, popular directories can bring in traffic and also the kind of back links that'll actually foster your site's optimisation process.

For more visit how to choose a directory for submission

I know that you will get a good help from this and wants your comments on this.

cheers

**LinkPopularity** · 03-20-2008, 05:05 AM

or use a quality services who did that extremely time consuming work already

if you do all that research for just 1 site, you're totally wasting your time !

short summary of your article; don't submit to bad directories ... really?

but that's just the short summary,
1) you miss out a lot of other important factors to check for
2) you don't give any tips how to check for it

my conclusion; totally worthless article, obviously only written to spam forums with it

**chrishirst** · 03-20-2008, 05:16 PM

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my conclusion; totally worthless article, obviously only written to spam forums with it

**ascotech** · 03-23-2008, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by LinkPopularity

but that's just the short summary,
1) you miss out a lot of other important factors to check for
2) you don't give any tips how to check for it

my conclusion; totally worthless article, obviously only written to spam forums with it

not to mention you and your list are missing really good directories but have abundance of totally useless and dead directories

**azraf** · 03-24-2008, 02:17 AM

I'm a junior in SEO. Is there any negative effect to submit site with useless and dead directories? Please say something.

**chrishirst** · 03-24-2008, 07:46 AM

"something"

was that Ok for you?

**ascotech** · 03-24-2008, 02:23 PM

am i allowed to add "something" to your "something"?

**chrishirst** · 03-24-2008, 04:31 PM

Of course,

I've said my piece

**SourceHead** · 03-25-2008, 02:57 AM

It's not good to add your link to any page that has a lower amount of visitors than yours or that doesn't have the same content as yours. Some sites may also spam etc. and may give your site a bad influence in the Search Engine rankings...

In general I'd say most web directories are pretty useless except for a handful of top ones.

**chrishirst** · 03-25-2008, 09:02 AM

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It's not good to add your link to any page that has a lower amount of visitors than yours

How would you know????

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or that doesn't have the same content as yours

Wrong

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Some sites may also spam etc. and may give your site a bad influence in the Search Engine rankings.

Also wrong

**arcel** · 03-26-2008, 09:48 AM

as long as it's free then i'm ok with it.

**LinkPopularity** · 07-18-2008, 06:49 AM

about the checking; if you're submitting for yourself etc ... well, about 80% of the dirs are in fact not worth the time submitting, but then again, checking them 1 by 1 takes even more time, so 2 options;
1) order from the professionals
2) just submit as much as you can and forget about the checking ... sure 80% of your effort will be wasted, but you can do more this way then actually checking them ...

or use www.digiXmas.com
it will only give you about 20% of what we could do for you, but it's really cheap and very fast ... good for newbies to get started ...

**hotelaudit** · 03-30-2009, 04:59 PM

A little addition for your 1) point : you have to also check the cache status of category where you would like make a submission. If the appropriate category which is relevant with your content is cached by the Google search engine you found a great place for your link, otherwise if the category is out of cache but the main page of directory is cached, it's also a time wasting . . . Always the important is exactly path of url where your page will be online.

**w3bmaster** · 03-30-2009, 06:30 PM

The only tule i apply when it comes to dir's

If it's free i submit to it

**nikolla983** · 03-30-2009, 07:37 PM

Manual submitting is pointless... You'll need much time, huge amount of work, and no one guaranties to you new traffic and good rankings... It's hell of a game in internet marketing...

**Carl Broom** · 03-31-2009, 08:56 AM

Hey azraf you will not get negative effect if you submit your website in useless directories.

**lowcostwebhosti** · 03-31-2009, 11:08 AM

Hi,

I know only one way, if i search for any directory.

Directories should be seo friendly.

In other word we can say that we should check only for Nofollow or Dofollow tags.

If directory are using nofollow then you will get nothing from there and if directory are using dofollow then you can get PR Juice from there.

Thanks
Alex

**pow-wow** · 03-31-2009, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by lowcostwebhosti

Hi,
If directory are using nofollow then you will get nothing from there and if directory are using dofollow then you can get PR Juice from there.

Thanks
Alex

That is if the page your site will be listed has some PR. Most directories have higher PR on the home page but non at the inner pages.

**reganstar** · 04-01-2009, 05:15 AM

Hi,
The most important factor in directory submission is PR number, so you should choose a directory with a PR greather than 5.
Good luck!

**meghna87** · 04-15-2009, 02:46 AM

Ya..you are right, quality is more important than quantity. Popular directory and high PR directory help you the most.