What does SEO friendly directory means ? Do such directory submission lead to higher search engine positioning, increase PR or bring good traffic ?
just means search engine friendly.. i think its all to do with bots, that they read pages in HTML alot better then php etc.
PHPLD is a seo friendly directory scripts. The directory shows your link directly(not redirect) is a seo friendly directory
As far as i know, the bots read php pages just fine, its usually when there are session ID's and other things involved that it starts causing problems, when the url doesn't look clean and has allsorts trailing off of it.
When people refer to a directory as "SEO friendly" what they actually mean is that this particular directory does not use redirects, jump links, or no follow tags. How do can you determine whether a directory uses these quickly? Here's how: REDIRECTS/JUMP LINKS The main thing to being search engine friendly is NOT having redirects. In other words, make sure you are providing me with a direct link to my site. for instance: (1) http://www.mysite.com (good) (2) http://www.directory.com/dir.cgi?id=1431434817612. (very bad) Redirects won't count as a backlink in search engines, after all, the directory is not actually linking to YOUR site. To check a directory to see if it's using redirect links, simply place your mouse over a few listings. If the status bar in your browser shows a url that belongs to the directory (like ex. 2 above), then the link is a redirect, and being listed is of no value. One word of caution. I have found a couple directories in the past that use redirects, but use javascript to deceptively show you your address in the status bar, to make you think it's SEO-friendly. NOFOLLOW TAGS Nofollow tags tell search engine spiders to ignore your link, rendering the directory practically worthless to be listed in. To check for nofollow tags: (1) Check the robots.txt file to see if spiders are not disallowed from crawling the pages where the listings are shown. (2) Check the meta tags of listings page to make sure that spiders are not prevented from indexing the page. Ex: meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow". If it says noindex or nofollow, then don't bother submitting. (3) Check a few typical links for the anchor tag contains rel="nofollow". If present, then your link won't be followed by search engine spiders. (4) THE EASIEST WAY TO CHECK for nofollow is for Firefox users. Download this really nice extension from this page. It includes many useful features for webmasters including an option to highlight all NOFOLLOW links on a page. MOD REWRITE Another good idea for a directory is having mod rewrite. What is mod rewrite? It's changing a directory structure that looks something like this #1 below, into #2: (1) http://www.directory.com/cat.php?id=234. (not as good) (2) http://www.directory.com/Computers/Internet/Forums (better)
Ya I also have some guidelines while submitting my site to free directories such as I dont submit to dynamic directories and niether I submit to the directories with PR less than 5.
Uhh...that's nice to point out your personal guidelines, but what the heck does PR have to do with being search engine friendly?
Great explanation portprophecy... Thank you everybody... I know have enough experience about SEO friendly directory and will be submitting my site to them soon..
No I just look at the homepage, and I am concerned about the PR because it tells me how important that directory really is to the most important Google. Please add to my repuatation if you liked my opinion. Cheers
If you keep adding this to the end of all your posts your reputation will go into the red pretty quickly.
The following post seems like a great sticky post. I wish I'd seen it before I submitted to a few directories!!!!