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Is directory submission still effective?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by alamlinks, Jan 5, 2019.

  1. #1
    is directory submission still effective? or not?

    Plz. share your valuable views.

    Thanks
     
    alamlinks, Jan 5, 2019 IP
  2. qwikad.com

    qwikad.com Illustrious Member Affiliate Manager

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    #2
    There are several similar threads on DP on this very subject.

    A general consensus is No.
     
    qwikad.com, Jan 5, 2019 IP
  3. alamlinks

    alamlinks Well-Known Member

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    Thank you dear for your reply. Can you please tell me what are best way to promote a new site/blog for now. I mean name of the works such as once directory submission, blog commenting were useful.

    Thanks in advance
     
    alamlinks, Jan 5, 2019 IP
  4. Jim4767

    Jim4767 Prominent Member

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    In 99% of the cases, it is at best a waste of time. A worst, it can give your website a terrible link profile (which the search engines do notice).
     
    Jim4767, Jan 5, 2019 IP
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    qwikad.com Illustrious Member Affiliate Manager

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    #5
    You can promote it in your sig on DP. Twitter, Facebook have been essential for me. Grow your Twitter followers. If your site or blog qualifies for a business page, create one on Facebook.
     
    qwikad.com, Jan 6, 2019 IP
  6. alamlinks

    alamlinks Well-Known Member

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    Thanks dear for your valuable suggestion
     
    alamlinks, Jan 6, 2019 IP
  7. Anna Gray

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    However, it has given less priority but it is still effective once you build a foundation for your website.
     
    Anna Gray, Jan 8, 2019 IP
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    #8
    Nowadays there are so many ways to promote new site or blog that depends on you which better one you choose. For example, First of all, we have to do technical SEO in which you must optimize your site. In site optimization, it involves speed, security, indexed & crawling, Analytics tools, content optimization(on-page SEO), URLs & image optimization, Add meta keywords, meta tags, title, and description and also encourage social sharing. After that, you should promote your blog & website by using different methods like Email Marketing, Social Media Optimisation(SMO), Social Media Marketing, Blogger Outreach, Guest blogging, Blog Commenting etc.
    Don’t try all of these ideas together. Pick one or two that you feel comfortable with and suit your niche. Then evaluate your results.
     
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  9. Anna Gray

    Anna Gray Peon

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    You should start from the very beginning, all you need to do is an overview of your website. Find out the problems first for your website, or in technical words find out the facts that make your website non-SEO friendly and after that try to resolve your issues or convert your website into an SEO friendly one, then you can start doing off-page activities like classified ads, sharing it on different bookmarking platform, in short, promote it, you will get a good promotion for website. Hope this is helpful to you.
    Thank you.
     
    Anna Gray, Jan 9, 2019 IP
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    joseph350 Active Member

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    Effective but you can't get much benefits from directory submission. If you spend the same time in other SEO tasks such as Profile backlinks, social media posting, guest blogging, forum posting, etc. then you can get more traffic and backlinks than directory submission. So spend time from where you get much benefits.
     
    joseph350, Jan 14, 2019 IP
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    renanorola Well-Known Member

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    Any link building techniques are still working and still good. Except for those who are already deindex by google.
     
    renanorola, Jan 14, 2019 IP
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    I think directory is submission still effective as sometimes when user is searching for some services or business, search engine do list some good directories in search result.
     
    wanessmark, Feb 11, 2019 IP
  13. Shivani Shrivastav

    Shivani Shrivastav Active Member

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    #13
    No, Rather than wasting your time in Directories, you can go for Local citation that will help you a lot............
     
    Shivani Shrivastav, Feb 11, 2019 IP
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    #14
    I never knew how to use directories for rank growing.
    Still it's unuseful?
     
    Orol, Feb 12, 2019 IP
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    MilesWeb Well-Known Member

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    It's not very effective today. Instead you can promote your business via other strategies.
     
    MilesWeb, Feb 28, 2019 IP
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    According to my experience now-days this is not useful and you can try new techniques for better results.
     
    FrazeTowne, Mar 14, 2019 IP
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    well anything that send you a free links can always be on the count
     
    jimroddy, Mar 18, 2019 IP
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    I notice they help but the directory matters. Directories used to be used more. Considered spammy now because how much traffic are you getting really. but if your getting traffic than its ok with google.
    Nitch directories like blog directories do better and are regularly used to find blogs.
     
    madmn, Apr 10, 2019 IP
  19. Manish.ebiztrait

    Manish.ebiztrait Active Member

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    Hi,
    If you are submitting your site on various high DA directory submission site, then it will still effective and must give you an advantage in SEO.
     
    Manish.ebiztrait, Apr 15, 2019 IP