Are Directories really effective in Ranking positions

Hi friends,

Do you really think that Directories are really the ones which drive traffic now a days in SEO, Since which way you think, Link exchange or Directory submissions work??

Thnaks

 

I Cant say exactly directories are helpful to get ranking, but definitely it will provide you traffic.

 

Agreed, the directories many not exactly give you SEO ranking, it will drive traffic.

 

i think Directory submission in quality sites will be helpful. it must be High PR directories.

 

They will help with ranking but it depends on many other things.

They dont provide traffic directly from them.

They can give you better ranking, the improved serps will send traffic bit the directory wont.

No it doesn't have to be high pr directories at all.

Please understand what you are saying before stating it, agreeing with the person above makes no sense if they dont understand either.

 

I've found that I get less than 50 hits a month from being listed in directories. Most of those hits come from directories in my niche where people actually use the directory to find good sites. So you won't get much traffic from directories.

However, they do help you rank in the search engines. This is mainly because you can set the link text. I've found that the most help comes after I'm ranking for a term on the 2nd or 3rd page for a keyword. I then do some directory submissions with variations of that keyword and it can boost me to the first page. In addition, I've found that niche directories give the biggest boost for the time spent.

 

Directories are mainly provides popularity of sites and provides backlinks if submission are going in good pr sites.

 

Quality directories with high PR and with low or no submission fees are accepted by Google as valid for linking purposes.

You can check this by looking at your google backlinks to see which directories show up in the list.

 

I will give you a practical tip - use directories that are above PR 3.

 

Why above pr3?

 

Answer: yes directories are still effective in ranking positions and you can rank for keywords even if your site is listed on a pr0 page on a good directory. I can vouch!

 

Link Exchange and Directory Submission are important. Directory submission help full for keyword ranking with traffic.

 

Because below that level all efforts went waste (from in house tests conducted by my team)

 

Then if thats true, you better contact google and let them know about your findings because that is like suggesting that they have made a mistake somewhere.

I doubt that your in house team will have enough information for you to be able to make such a bold statement like that and there actually being anything in it.

Its simply ridiculous to say that pr3 and below results in waste, its insane.

 

Directories are one part of a larger collective concerted effort of link building in the overall SEO process.

One directory, by itself is not going to do it all. Hope that helps.

 

Agreed with this guy

 

Hello Kinder,

According to me directory submission is like pillar in building. i am doing directories submission since i have blog and finding result positive.

 

Definitely directory helps. I submit my blog to many directories and good results from it. Even tested this out for my directory.

 

You think there is a flaw in Google algo to allow such thing to happen? - then contact them yourself, i have no intention of doing that - why should i? I am no seo police. I work for my clients - not Google.

O yeah? Do you have insider information to my in house team?

Why is it ridiculous and insane? Because you say so? So you have gathered data and did trial tests and arrived at this conclusion? Why does it sound that now you are speculating?

I repeat - what i have stated is based on more than 4 years of data crunching with my in house team. You think this is bogus - fine, no problem at all. Go ahead with your own methods. But please stop preaching without data on your hands.

 

No i get the impression that you are saying theres a flaw in their algo, i know nothing of your in house team, only that its impossible that they or you could have findings that google dont know about or that they dont understand.

Think about it, if what you said was true and google didn't know that pr3 and below was useless.... i mean c'mon?

Theres no way that you or your in house team can have any findings, its merely a hollow suggestion, its impossible for you to be able to understand these things about google, as it would be impossible for me and everyone else out there.

I have no data, no gathered information because it would be pretentious of me to believe that i could somehow gather this information without actually working within a specific department of google.

All i can ever do regarding the search engines and individuals is yes, to speculate because im modest enough to say that outside of my immediate world that i can know nothing for sure, not 100%

I have no desire to challenge you with data, my very point and honesty over what i cant present to you is politely hinting that you cant possible have this information, you dont have this data and what you think you do have means nothing.

Plain and simple, theres never been anything mentioned officially that says pr3 annd below are useless.

And you know that its wrong to say that.