Hi Does submitting my site to 100-300 diffrent PR direcotries has offered by many people in the BST section help my site gain more traffic? If so would if gain traffic in the long term or short term? Thanks in advance.
Don't expect traffic from directories. The traffic will increase if you get a higher rankings thanks to the links from those directories. However I don't think 100-300 free directories will help you start ranking high for your keywords. It depends on your niche and keywords obviously but generally speaking you will need thousands of submissions to get a tiny boost in the search engines. Google doesn't like directories lately.
Directories may have a high page rank, but after it has been leaked to thousands of sites it isn't so great anymore.
Beware : There is strong evidence that (at least in some cases) overdone directory-submitting has been penalized by Google... It's probably as with all poisons: it just depends on the dose...
it' ok to submit to directories butkeep it about 10 submissions per day. if your site is new and you start submitting like crazy, than you google will think you're spamming.
I really don't think directories do much at all from experience. For example as well I submitted to around 100 directories in a months time and only around 50 have been accepted so far the rest are being reviewed and than out of those 50 only about 15 of those links are being indexed by google. Kind of a waste of time if you ask me as google is now focusing more on relevance.
For my clients that have good success, I tend to submit patches of links to my directories at no more than 40-50/day. And sitemaps through my directory are constantly being slurped up by the big "3". So it can work in moderation.
I have achieved some good rankings thanks to the free directories. I believe they work. Use your primary keyword as anchor text and it should help!
As a directory submitter I have submitted MANY sites to 1000s of directories and haven't seen penalty on any of them. (Actually, I have seen penalty on some but that was because of excessive WP theme sponsorship). I would love to the strong evidence Dalklold is talking about. Directory submissions are for gaining long term traffic. If you want instant traffic, try social bookmarking . Directory submissions help in getting backlinks and also help with SERPs. But I would never say that a website should do 'only directory submissions'. Best strategy is to combine directory submissions with other form of link building to build a good backlink profile.
Submitting to hundreds and even thousands of directories a day is OK. Just rotate the title, description, etc. from time to time.
Excellent strategy that I use for my own sites. I socialize with plenty instantly and comment on relevant blogsin same niche for repeat traffic. As they say "lather,rinse and repeat" in moderation.
Two simple questions: Do you expect human traffic from those directories you are submitting to (that is: As a human being, would you use them to find anything?) Do you think, Google is completely unaware of directories being turned into link farms and hence would still give those links the full weight? No? Then why bother? As the webmaster guidelines says: Make pages for human beings, not for bots. Putting links in places where no human would look is pretty much a waste of time (unless you are in the making search engines aware of you phase and want to sneak in some keywords).
Directory submission is fine but you should not rely solely on directory submission to build your backlinks and increase your traffic. You must gain backlinks from other sources as well.
I haven't submitted my blog to a single directory other than DMOZ ever since I launched it about 3 months ago. It's not that I think that my blog will get penalized, it's just that I don't really think it will help much. So it's up to you really, if you want to pay someone $10 to submit your site to hundreds of directories, do it, but I wouldn't