i heard that google started to dislike directories. so will it hurt my site's rankings, if i submit them to directories... or will it aid my rankings ??? thanks for your time
Agree with the other posts - links from directories wont hurt YOUR site - but may be less useful than in the past. Also - you need a naturally varied link profile built up over time
i thought google might have considered directories as some kind of link farms.so they are going to hurt the sites listed in it.
Some of them probably YES and Try build Your backlinks not only DIR links try get QuALITY links from sites with relevant content to Yours
I totally agree with stickyLink. Sure add your site to directories that you think will bring you traffic i.e. industry specific directories, as these will bring traffic and help to build a topical inbound linking profile, but as far as anything else goes I wouldn't spend my time bothering. You could even end up blurring the perceived focus of your site if you are to trigger happy.
thanks guys i have cleared my doubts. so directory submission wont hurt my site,but on the contrary it wont help much unless its a very good one.
Yes, precisely If submitting to directories hurt us, our competitors will have been busy submitting our sites to tons and tons of directories..
Submitting your site to directories was one of the best natural link exchange method. Now after google started penalizing directories.... i don't think we will be wasting time on directories now.
No - as we have been saying - directories can do you NO HARM It is just that they might not be MUCH HELP