Mind posting the url of a QUALITY and HIGH INTEGRITY link directory? Would Web 2.0 link directories fare better (seo-wise)?
Yes they have, I sign up for a directory and next thing I know, I'm getting a letter from them every other day wanting me to advertise some more in the directory with featured links and stuff. Because of that I've completely quit submitting to dirs. I probably get 100 spam (yes I feel they are spam cause they never say anywhere that I'm being added to a mailing list) a day.
anyone ever thought of doing some kind of project to find out what dirs spam and what dont? all you would really have to do is create a mail forwarder in cpanel and then when submitting use email addresses like , i get alot of spam to my directory submission email adresses
link directory still have its role and market. but to only those quality directory. however, i see that forums worth more than directory
I've noticed that since Day 1. But no--I wouldn't wanna do that. I do a lot of directory submissions for clients so I have them setup mail accounts they wouldn't mind getting spam on. Sure enough...just as night follows day... spam arrives by the bucketload. Just part of the game, I guess. Too bad link lists have to stoop to that level. Oh well.
There are also a lot of directories that were set up for link farming . I'm certainly still doing directory submissions, but I've also changed how I approach it
To be true, I found that pages with high OBL (out bound links) are not very useful for linkbuilind nowadays.