How important is to submit a site to directories? Can you get 100's of visitors per day by having links from directories?
I don't submit to directories for traffic, I only expect a little traffic when submitting to Yahoo Directory, although some directories do pass traffic, but i wouldn't expect loads. But i suppose it depends on your site and how the directory is marketed.
u'll get no traffic even if you spend your whole life submiting to directories (very very few exceptions), its for link juice but it is important
Depends on the site. There are some which directories love, and they'll do very well from submitting to both free and paid dirs: Content-heavy sites that are adequately designed and regularly maintained, on family-friendly topics. Bonus points if the url contains no more than one hyphen, and is the same as the site's title. If you have in excess of 50 000 words of unique written content spread across the whole site, and it's all spellchecked and carefully researched (if that's relevant), then that's one example of the kind of site I would call content-heavy. Directory traffic is more likely to come indirectly, as a result of the directory pages being indexed in search engines and passing link love. This is especially true when it comes to general directories, on the whole. But a link still counts as a vote to the SE's, and it will still help.
@obelia You have a very educational information in there. I am a noob in this line of things and I am learning on a day to day basis. I did one of what you said which is content and I believe in that. My other question is. If I submit to directories with high PR and its crowded do you think that is a good thing or does it dilute the PR that it passes. Thanks in advance for your answers.
I think it dilutes the PR that it passes. But only a search engineer could tell you by how much. Remember you get the PR from the page your site is listed on, not the directory's homepage.
I had been hearing a lot about the backlinks that directories provide, and how a lot of links give a boost to your PR. And arranged for someone to sumbit my site to 150 PR4 directories. Instead of a jump in PR, what I got was a great deal of spam. The directories had various demands: -- Some wanted money to review my site in less than so many months -- Others wanted a reciprocal link for listing my site -- Many did not care to respond to the submission at all I think less than a dozen of the directories actually listed the site. Fortunately, these included some good directories like SearchSight and CowBoy and these did bring a trickle of traffic. As to Yahoo, $300 is a bit too much for a non-commercial site like mine and so I haven't tried it.
Submitting unique content to directories is only part of it. You also need to take into account where your unique content is displayed on a directory and how. I'm not just talking about the correct category here, I'm talking about position. Every category of my directory is indexed by Google and those submissions which are at or near the top of a category are the ones which feed the description of that particular link in the index. This is why I wish more people who submit to directories would put more weight on position than they do just being included. They would be much further ahead in a shorter time in my opinion.
some very popular directory might even send you some traffic, but its mostly for link building. More you submit the better your PR
Man why do all people confuse submiting to directorys SEO porpouse for just geting traffic You don't get traffic you get Backlinks and you can get nice Rankings from only webdirectorys depends on the keywords you use .... but you must submit to lots of them not 15 and wait for miracolous results