At what extent directory submission is helpful to SEO

Hi friends, i just want to know at what extent the directory submission is helpful to SEO.

I know there are many professional here and i will surely get great suggestions.

Waiting for your responses

Nazia

 

Directory submission is very helpful to initially get your site noticed. however it is only one of a number of strategies for link building. Article directories, social bookmarking, do follow - blogging , link exchanging with other relevant sites are also very important.

 

Directory submission will help your site get indexed. It may even drive some initial long-tail traffic from Google for about a month. But it will not help you rank for competitive terms or in the long term. You need some real authority type links which you could get from paid directories or a place like TNX

 

Many thanks for your suggestion, i really appreciate this positive response from the members here.

Nazia

 

Thank you members to help a new person here.

Nazia

 

Hi,
Directory submissions get you niche backlinks and proper your SERPS

 

You can only expect some good results from directory submissions only if you do thousands of submissions.

You also have to remember that Directories are not the only way to get links, there are tons of places where you can get higher quality links.

 

Thanks to all for the information

Nazia

 

Directory submissions can get you quite a bit of long tail traffic. If your content is good the long tail traffic will convert to a few new links from other sites. This will boost you a little higher and slowly your site will rise in the SERPs.

You can also use directories to increase your ranking for pages that have a lot of links, but don't have links with the right anchor text. A few good directory links with the proper anchor text to one of these pages gives the search term a boost.

 

it depends, they are not that useful nowdays, Freelistfool has covered the point well.

 

Thanks to freelistfool and posidon for the great information
It will really be helpful to me and all the new comers.

Thanks again
Nazia

 

Directory submission will help your site get indexed....

 

Thanks for your reply
Directory submission manually is best or to use any software is convenient?

Nazia

 

Submitting your site to the relevant Directories is one of the best process to do. This is also one of the primary things you perform when your website is newly built. This process takes some time to get results. It is one of the best whitehat operation method. So all the links from the relevant directories lead to the quality backlinks to your site which major search engine highly look for. So do it for the above results.

Do not use any software to do this. You may commit some mistakes while using them also don't forget that Directories are manually reviewed.

 

Personally speaking, I think it's about time management.

We only have so many hours in our day, and they can either be spent submitting to a hundred directories or marketing via another strategy.

Given the choice between 2 buzz generating articles and 100 directory submissions, I'd say the 2 articles are going to help you more.

Of course, if you have the time to pull it off, a directory blitz will do no harm.

 

yes i agree to tehfinch, directory submission will be good for new sites and help them indexed but if you are targeting very competitive keywords then it won't be worth the time we spent submitting to different directories.

 

Directory submission is one of the best way to do off page optimization. Try to submit in those directory having free. There are about 2000 free directory. PMB me..

 

Thanks to all of you for the information.

Nazia

 

directory submission are great but you must abide by two rules:

1) make sure you vary your anchor text, always rotate keywords and add new ones to the link you submit to the directories

2) dont submit your site to too many directories at one time, submit it to 100-200 per month over the course of a year

 

this is really some good piece of advice thanks