Is 40-50 PR5&6 directory submissions better than 400-500 PR3?

The title is pretty self explanatory, but I'll repeat it.

Is 40-50 PR5 & PR6 directory submissions better than 400-500 PR3?

Also, if it is, does it still serve me better to have say 5 different titles and descriptions? My home page is optimized for about 5 keyword phrases.

Or even a better question. If I'm going to pay anyway for someone to submit to directories, what should I be looking to get that will give my web site the best chance of being ranked high in Google for eg.

Cheers for any help
Dean

 

Simple answer 40-50 PR5 & PR6 dir. would be better.
To be realistic, what matters is the PR of the page where your site is going to be listed and the number of links it have. In those PR6 directories, you will be somewhere deep inside, for sure.

 

Ya the first one is much better than the other one.

 

Are you talking about free submissions ? if yes, than definitely avoid MFA sites. Go for quality directories only though tere are very few who accept free submission due to spammers. The inner pages in poor directories don't even get crawled.

 

If you have a link to 300-400 PR3 websites, the chances of your site going higher than PR3 become pretty slim. You would be better off submitting to fewer PR 5 and 6 websites. It would probably have the same result and would save time.

 

PR is not a factor on Google SERP. So you're question is quite irrelevant.
But my advice is try to get as many relevant links as possible rather than submitting to bunch of directories. Hire an SEO/link builder rather than directory submitter because directories only good for new sites this advice is only applicable if you are serious about you're site.I hope that helps. Cheers!

 

Actaully PR is not a factor but Google does gives importance to links coming from high PR sites.

 

Yeah 40-50 PR5 & PR6 directory submissions would be much better. "Ussually" sites with such a PR has more trust and the link is viewed as much more important by G.

 

Higher PR directories are more beneficial

 

Aren't higher PR sites crawled more frequently?

Also, people claiming PR is not a factor, please state your facts.

 

Thanks for your replies.

The whole reason I aksed this is because I am VERY serious about my new web site, which I have spent lots and lots of time building. (I suppose I should put it in my signature )

I also spent huge amounts of time submitting my first web site into directories, and I do not want to go through the whole process again. I'd rather pay someone to do it for me.

My only concern is that it seems to good to be true to get 400 or so directory submissions, for $50 or whatever (although the price doesn't surprise me as I've hired people through elance before) and that it will be quality links.

There are several advertising that they'll do 100's of directory submissions, all of PR3 or higher, but there was also someone advertsing 40-50 directory submissions of higher PR.

Could anyone throw me a bone as to getting someone to submit to QUALITY directories.

Cheers
Dean

 

Just an addition. There is one on this forum that is advertising 225 directory submissions of PR3 - PR6. Anyone used this?

 

No, I do submit my sites by myself. You can get the list of free directories in the Solicitations & Announcements forum. Download Roboform (free version) and if you have time then go ahead, otherwise you have to buy directory submission service from the others.

 

Hi Iceberg,

Thanks.

There is another issue I just remembered.

Last year when I was manually submitting for my wildlife figurines site, my coach at the time, told me to restrict the number of submissions done at one time to around 20-30 a week. He said the main reason is that a bulk submission of the one link, will alert google to possible spamming of a link, and can have a bad effect on your web site rankings, within Google.

He also said to mix up the descriptions.

I wonder if this is still true and if it is, then I wonder if the services offering 100's of submissions and doing it within 48 hours, and the clients involved are aware of this.

Dean

 

yes we are very aware of it. but due to the client demand of having it done fast, the ethics in directory submission is sometimes ignored. but though on some occasion we advice the client that rocketing a website with tons of backlinks in such a short time can affect their website credibility in search engines.

 

Hi Psyberweb

I have had a look at your web site.

In regards to your services, do you offer a periodical submission, such as say 30 a week etc

Dean

 

Ya britishguy you are right. Just some advice for the people who submit to the directories. Only submit to the directories which have a PR 5 or above and have static pages, dynamic directories are not too search engine friendly.

Please add to my repuatation if you liked my opinion.

Cheers

 

just submitting is not improtant, approvel is important, those big guys dont approve so soon, if they do first 1 is more important.

 

Personally, I would be using both. This way you get the high PR traffic and also you get the traffic from all those PR3 directories that will end up turning PR4 or PR5 or higher in the longer term. Also, it pays to spread your links all over the place. Saturation is the key here.

Col

 

I have already replied about this question here - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=78294&page=25

Let me know if you have any more queries, also this is my personal experiance how i gain SERPS.