Paid Directory & Page Strength Strategies

[ImCanuck]

Hi,

I recently saw a list of paid directories listed by page strength on a thread. I was wondering if it is really worth it to get a yahoo or business.com listing or buy 10 paid listings with a page strength of 5 or 6.

Or is the money better spent building up back links through free directory submissions and article submissions.

If you have already built links through free directories and article submissions. Would it be better to buy blog links?

I have one site that has article back links from directories and blogs as well as bookmark backlinks and free direc submissions etc. about 1000 backlinks total sitewide.

Would the next logical step be paid directories? Or try to get decent PR blog links through more articles. Confusing but a hell of a lot of fun IM is.

Regards.

[mikey1090]

Paid directories are a useful source of backlinks, yes. Check for other indicators rather than pagestength though.

[ImCanuck]

Thanks Mikey. What other indicators are important besides price, pr and page strength?

[swedal]

Thanks Mikey. What other indicators are important besides price, pr and page strength?

Things like unique content on site - number of backlinks pointed towards site - check directory spammy submissions - and you can read some other items in this article (http://www.authoritydirectory.com/blog/distinctive-traits-of-a-quality-web-directory/)

[pipes]

Check age, if penalised, who owns it, number of listings, type of listed content, if you go for some paid directories.

[discover]

check for last cached date on the page/s / categories you wanna be on

[hecto]

yeah its worth it, depending on the directory.

[ImCanuck]

Wow! Thanks for all of the great tips. I have followed some of the sig links I wil l be looking at them further as I figure out budget and assess needs. Thanks for the help guys!

[hyper]

Page Strenght is a good indicator, but it is not the only one.
Anyway it is better than PageRank :)

[uttoransen]

who owns it,

this is the most important indicator! Owners reputaion is the most important thing, you don't want to submit to a directory which will change in a blog in the future, or may be a parked domain;)