Are high PR Directories worth the money?

[ultimatehandyman]

I have been reading the thread about the phpbb website offering links from their homepage that is pr9. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=156544

And I have also been checking out many of the directories with a high pagerank, there are plenty of these and many of them sell links. One of the selling points is that it is a pr6/pr7/pr8 directory.

Many of these directories attract advertisers because they have an high PR, although this is only on their main page, this means that although the home page of the directory is page rank 7 for example, the page where you site may be listed may only have a PR of 5 or less in some cases.

But these directories are priced high because they are classed as being high PR.

Therefore advertising on a high PR directory is not all that it is cracked up to be and you could be paying top dollar to be placed on a page with a PR of 4 or 5 :confused:

[Phynder]

the page where you site may be listed may only have a PR of 5 or less in some cases.

Heck yeah! If you can get a permanent link on a PR5 subpage of a quality paid directory, it is worth it.

[jg123]

I guess it depends what you consider "Top Dollar" to be. If a directory has a home page of PR6 you can expect most inner pages to eventually get PR4 and 5. So paying say, $25 for a permanent link is a pretty good deal IMO.

[Jasonb]

My opinion would be yes :) I pay for alot of ones, and they show up on my backlinks

[onedollar]

2 most important criteria for paying for high PR directories - should be the PR of the category your link will be on and the duration of the link (if it's permanent, it makes it more attractive) - also, it's true that you are paying mostly for the PR and not for traffic :)

[Lexiseek]

What matters for paid directories:

1) Number of outgoing links per page (the fewer the better)
2) Is the page Cached in Google
3) The links are not re-directed in any way

[kausik]

Pr , category and placement of your link is important.

[Antonio]

What matters for paid directories:

1) Number of outgoing links per page (the fewer the better)
2) Is the page Cached in Google
3) The links are not re-directed in any way

Agree.
Many high pr paid directories will not sell any link on homepage to keep fewer outgoing links.

[TangoUK]

Category is king (your target keywords in the title of linking page also helps)

[shenron]

IMHO it is worth the deal...
You'd better have 2 or 3 good submissions at these top payed directories than 100 at crappy free ones.

[trichnosis]

i prefer getting one link from pr 8 instead of getting link from 7 pr 4 sites

[lawdog]

links on high PR pages are worth it but, after a while the effect goes down. Go for the big ones, the higher the better. Good links cost money that's the game.

[ultimatehandyman]

Some good points there!

Thanks

[BigEasy]

Yes - they're worth it. Also, if you didn't already know, Best of the Web (http://botw.org?uid=17052) is currently giving away sponsored listings for 60 days free. That's a free PR5-7 link for 60 days.

[almir]

I dont care to have links from new directories as much people talk about not importance, but yes, its better to have some strong PR links, and they are always worth of money

[jetbrains]

I think it's worth.
PR is very important to site.The best way to get high PR is to buy tons of links

[Lexiseek]

Agree.
Many high pr paid directories will not sell any link on homepage to keep fewer outgoing links.

Definitely. That's a sign of good quality. Personally, I think directories should have no "footer" links to external sites either. Otherwise, count those as outgoing links on the individual pages, too. Too many of these will kill the value.