What's your opinion on Bidding directories? Hate them/Love them?

Are the links worth paying for? I want to know what you think?

 

Nope. There are plenty of free listing services that paying money isn't worth it. IMO.

 

you already have had your choice as you own a bidding directory.

 

yea, but I would like to know what people think about bidding on them

 

There is no link worth paying for if it is not perminent.

 

paying money is't worth at all, there a lot of free directories that u can submit your links
If you want quality link's then u need to get into DMOZ, Yahoo

 

My suspicion is that google will go after bidding directories pretty hard at some time. So if you place a link in a bid directory it will probably be short lived...don't expect it to be there in 2 or 3 years.

 

ok thanks for your feedback,

Links are permanent though

 

I am very surprised that Google hasn't disallowed and severely penalised bidding directories yet.. paying for links and their positions (isn't that what google hates)?

I am all for normal free/paid directories that may charge for listings but listings aren't guarunteed, the cost is for the review and not the acceptance... big difference between these and bidding directories.

 

To whoever posted me this comment "google is against paying to rank in their index, not the index of a web site like a bidding directory."

I am saying that bidding directories are supporting people purchasing links on a website - and paying for their position (and isn't that what google doesn't want), am I wrong? please correct me if I am...

 

Bidding directories are only a variant of paid for review directories (Like Yahoo ). The price for review is the minimum bid accepted. So, any bid directory can be managed as a link farm of paid links (that sooner or later will be penalized by search engines) or managed as a high quality link directory where submissions and included links are well supervised. Personally, I prefer bid directories that offer free submissions, and once inside, you can bid for positions.

 

What really turned me off to bid directories is to most of them (not all) seem to be nothing more than a collection of casino sites. Not sure I'd like my link on a page with lots of gambling sites...at any cost.

 

Bidding directories are meant for traffic, the higher you bid the more exposure you get for your site. So if your looking for a good amount of webmaster traffic you should go for bidding directories.
While other directories main aim is to get backlinks, bidding directories also give you a backlink though. And there are alot of general directories that send traffic like romow, avivadirectory and many others.

 

Google and other SE are not differ bid from normal directories or directories from blog,they differ sites that follow their tos and sites they dont.Some opinions here that only yahoo and dmoz can provide your site a quality link is redicilus.Also most bid directories these days are human edited so you pay for a review as you do in normal directories.Also links are Permanent!The point about casino links is corect but they have the $$$ so they rule sometimes but there is measures you can take to avoid this.As for the free directories,i do it in the past also,when i was young and have lot of time and no money.Nowdays i will rather pay for 1 directory than submit to 1000 free and that link will hold more value than the surviving links from the 1000s fee.Bottom line is that the fear mention if you want moe exposure you go for bidding directories if you need just the backlink you go for normal one.

 

bid directories can be treated like normal directories if they
- remove the homepage links
- remove the sitewide link for the highest bidder
- disable auto approval
- follow the same acceptance guidelines as regular directories
- have normal category stucture (categories, subcategories,..)

In this case, if a category contains only relevent listings then I see no problem in ranking them with an auction like system.

 

I've never paid for a link bid and never will

These directories IMO pose the most risk from google giving them a slam for selling links.

btw, you have a great blog, thanks for posting the deep links hacks

 

Tell me one thing that matt cuts have say and it was clear or helpfull, everytime i read something he says is like hearing a prophesy from Pythia

 

I think that is the intent...