Besides DMOZ and Yahoo, which directories send you the most traffic via your listings. I know many submit their sites to directories for SEO purposes. I want to know which ones are sending decent traffic directly.
If a directory has an important niche like a law practice area. I have found it to be very worthwhile to do seo work on the directory. Yes, they traffic is modest, but it's high pay per click traffic.
I've found that I get most of my web directory traffic from niche directories. Here is a list of high alexa traffic rating directories that you can start with. Use the search on the site to narrow the directories to your niche then sort them by alexa rating to find the ones that have a good chance of sending your traffic.
Yes , but i think those backlinks will in the long run be converted to quality traffic. Just what i think.
I've found that niche directories tend to send a lot of traffic. Here's some visit stats from last month from Google Analytics: gscripts.net 188 hotscripts.com 80 codango.com 24 The list goes on, but you get the picture. They all have rather low bounce rates compatible with some other forms of traffic, as well higher conversion rates. The idea that directories don't bring in any traffic is a myth.
In the UK I think Yell.com (local business directory) does very well - however it also lists 2 million or so businesses - so I'd suspect that the ratio to users to websites is probably not that high. (I suspect a lot of its users click on a relatively small number of premium paid listings - but I'm only guessing) Perhaps that's an issue with directories - i.e. many get lots of traffic, but it gets spread across a large number of sites?
Thanks for all of the info guys. Plenty for me to get my head round.. I'm right in saying that one-way linking is better for SEO than reciprocal linking? Thanks in advance.