Difference between One-Way Linking and Directory Submission?

[eddy2099]

I am still lost, what is the difference between one-way link building and directory submission ? It appears that my experience shows that both also submit to directories. The only thing I see is that with one-way link building, you pay a lot more, submit to a lot less and probably the number of links you paid for are added. The manual Directory submission sends to more directory, cost a lot less and pretty much still land up in the same places especially now those offering directory submission are sending your links to sites with PR of 3 upwards. They are also one-way.

So what is really the difference ?

[zokiii]

Directories give you one way links.
Also web sites that aren't directories like some site about cars or something else could give you one way link.

Difference is that one way link from related site (not directory) gives you more weight than some link from directory.
A said that because directories have a lot of outbound links and that related site could have just one outbound link (yours) and then it gives you the most weight.

You can get one way links from :
websites
directories
articles
PR (Press release)

[eddy2099]

So far what I've been getting from link building that I've purchased were from unrelated directories but with PR.

Thanks. Maybe I am just getting links from the wrong places.

[seo_247]

Well,

imho real related links can only be from other "themed" websites, because article sites, directories and press release sites have content about all kind of subjects and are therefore not much different to directories from the content point of view.

The difference lies rather in the amount of content compared to the amount of links and the structure. I could imagine that google can detect directories via a fingerprint and then maybee devaluate the link slightly compared to "real" content-site links.

[LazySEO]

Yeah, I agree the main difference is that a "themed" site is usually an actual content site on your particular topic, not just a link page. Directories are barely more than FFA link pages, but seem to still have some decent weight with the search engines.

Don't ignore directory submissions because they do have some value, but you should also try to mix in as many quality themed one-way links as possible.

[eddy2099]

Thanks for the info. Apparently, the two parties I've got to do my linkbuilding did not do the 'theme' links building because all I've got are pretty much link pages and unrelated directories.

I will work on link building myself.