An article about the quality and non quaity web directories, i have worte a year ago and decided to share it with public. I would appreciate if readers would comment in the subject in forum and/or in site in a respectful manner, i will respond to all comments and questions regarding the subject.
"You have to analyze the potential web directory, distinguish between the two types of directories, submit only to quality directories and avoid the non quality directories. In short, premium SEO web directories offer maximum results directed at your target demographic with no effort on your part except to submit your site for inclusion. These directories are among the most effective marketing tools on the internet." Can you explain more about how that works please. What are the maximum results that i would get? By premium you mean higher priced, correct? Not just those charging for a listing.
A premium directory does not mean a "paid directory" or a directory with a high inclusion price. Its a high quality/value directory. Let me give you some examples: * Do you prefer to submit your website to a page rank 9 web directory or page rank 1 web directory? * Do you prefer to submit your website to a directory with Alexa rank below 10k or Alexa rank of 1kk+? In other words, anyone can buy PHPLD and create a directory in few minutes, but only high quality directories that are well built, well optimized and well advertised, will get top rankings in search engines. and getting a back links from such directories, will get your site in return higher ranking which will result in more generic traffic.
Is the PR9 just on the homepage? Is the good alexa rank because of something the site has got setup to make it look like they get tons of traffic when they dont? Is a web directory ranking for the keyword phrase "web directory" (for example) of any more benefit to the listed sites within it, than one which does not rank for the same keyword phrase?
So you're basing 'premium directories' on pr and traffic. This is what I'd call a premium directory. Focused on it's niche, well edited and unique.
The PR was just an example, its not the only criteria to measure the quality of a directory, but it can be one of the criteria. For example there are many web directories with high traffic, ranking well in search engine and spam free, etc, but they do not posses page rank. The same idea is with Alexa. So in the end, you can not depend only on one thing to measure the quality of a web directory, but using all together, will give a better picture about the directory and whether submitting to it will be really beneficial or not. The ranking in search engine for a keyword is also a criteria, but not the only one, a web site maybe today is ranking well for a keyword or all keywords and tomorrow lose the ranking and even get banned. So the point is, Alexa rank, page rank, ranking position are just some of the measurements, and there are many other measurements and we can not base our measurements of a web directory or a web site in general based only on one of them, but all together will surely give a better picture. Also we have to realize its not only white and black, only quality or non quality, directories vary between both, and grouping them to only quality or non quality is just for simplicity of explanation. The idea is to avoid spam directories and to submit to quality directories and there are many measurements we have to use to decide whether a directory is worth it or not and these measurement are many and differ from person to another.
I like the article. Do you have any annotated evidence and perhaps a list of examples to verify your observations?
Just checked and "tried" to submit a site to Arabule. Result: Error on submit! Description length should at least be 250...mine was and still it kept showing the same error(...)
The submission page is working fine, i receive submissions daily with no problem, however i have tested it and it works as it should, try again and make sure all fields are filled properly.
well, i just scanned most of the quality dirs, for example, i had alivedirectory, yahoo dir, google dir, dmoz, dir journal, aviva dir, all in terms of quality are great, but... some are panelized so they have pr 0 so i checked back links instead, really a dir would rank for a keyword if it had a lot of back links and not because of high PR, a lot of times the pr is high but back links are just few, doesn't make sense. all dirs i mentioned has yahoo back links 90k+ google back links around 1k, most new dirs has yahoo back links of 20-100 only, and no google back links at all, i think it is wise not to spam your site and submit it to 2k dirs, worthless effort, i would think like the op said anyone can open a dir, use forged pr and even charge money for it. keyword ranking doesn't necessarily mean something, its just means the site is well optimized for the specific keywords of the directory, that doesn't help me because its usually not a niche directory, if it was a niche directory i would care about keyword ranking related to my niche, i now see its easy to filter most dirs not by pr but back links, mostly yahoo and google ones
Hello... Here is a quality directory that everyone would want to be listed in.. http://www.hate-crime.net/ lmao you have to wonder if they even understand english... laterz malcolm
Cant even comprehend anyone wanting to submit to that directory and even more so.. asking them to submit to there submission service? yea ok laterz M1
Hi, I have submitted two of my site, Please check them if you think this sites maintain your requirement. Allow this two site to be listed