I've been submitting one of my sites to directories myself with Submit Eaze, and it's worked well. I gained PR after the last smack...so good news there. The problem is, that submitting them is a tedious undertaking, even with the simplified, manual submission software. I'm not lazy, but determined to personally work my blog(s) with unique content and make them into sites to be proud of. I want to have them listed in as many directories as possible because I feel this is a legit way of spreading the word about my site. My question is: If google looks at my site one day and finds 3 backlinks... and then looks at it the next time and finds 1003 backlinks...all from directories I'm now listed in...will this be a bad thing? The change resulting from paying a service to submit my site as fast as they can. My hat goes off to these people that do this ethically and professionally as I have discovered how tough it is to do. I suppose I can continue submitting manually myself, but that will detract from the time I can spend on building the site and content.
I have never seen any real proof that too many directory submission hurt your rankings in google. You have to keep in mind that many directories do not add your site right away so even if you submit to hundreds of directories in one day it will take weeks for them to actually add you site and many may never add it.
Very good point...and very true. Didn't realize that till you said it. Will go ahead and buy some submissions. Thanks!
Hey Nebraska. Im down in Miami and listen here my friend. The all approve at different times. I had sites submitted 1500 in one day. 1/2 or so will approve and they will be at different dates. Some are automatic approval, some are semi-automatic, and some are manual. Just like the autoresponder confirmation email you only receive for half of the directories. I have did this to new sites and site that have a pr of as high as 6. I haven't seen the threshold to get penalized broken by these means yet.
even the Google bot doesn't crawl a site at once. some sites have 1 week interval before the next bot visit.
Please give example...? It seems to me to be more of an urban legend kind of thing. About the only ways for links to hurt your rankings are: bad neighbors, paid links (at least the ones google knows about), FFA link farms, Link exchange programs that leave a footprint, and some reciprocal linking can affect your rankings but no other method has been proven to affect your rankings - sometimes it may appear to be because of too many links to fast but often times there is another cause that you may not realize. Other possible causes are: * The actual website code (i.e. java, load time, bad coding, etc), * Another site has improved in Google's eyes and has taken over your spot so your sites rankings drops * Changing the site (i.e. updating) can also affect you ranking both up and down and many people do not even think of this happening, for example you put a new article on your main page and now the keyword percentage has changed and that can lower your ranking * Algo adjustments by google This is just a short list of possible reasons why a site may drop in rankings.
Exactly, Not only will you get approved over the span of 1day to 18 months with the factor of what type of approval the directory facilitates, depending on the page rank "aka the volume that google bot comes back to your site or frequency" Not only will the links approve at different time the search engine bots will index the actual links at different times. Fact IMHO URBAN LEGEND. You need alot more spam links to get penalized.