Believe me I know that web directories have a perpose to serve. Dmoz is a good example. I don't really care about those kind of backlinks because they take alot submission time. Is it really worth the effort? I have had great results from anchortext backlinks with my network of domains.
It seems like directories are a meadeokre source of traffic for newbie webmasters. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Tip - the ability to edit your post is available for quite some time. Using it may save you some grief from the mods for running afoul of the posting guidelines.
Hope OP follows this from next time and as far as directories are concerned, they are a source of backlink. who is saying you to do the stuff yourself..Just go to services section here on DP and hire some one to do it for you
I believe you can edit your post only after a couple of minutes after the post is created. So if time runs out the post can not be edit anymore.
yeah you are right but see the gap between posts...only 16 min and i guess its possible in that much time!!
Take a look back at some of your recent posts - I think you'll find different. Apologies to the OP as we're way off topic.
Submitting to directories is easy if you use a free form filler like roboform. Directories certainly are not the highest quality links you can get, except for the top paid directories. But they do help. Be careful interlinking domains/sites. Google may see that as a link scheme and issue a penalty.
Submitting directories is good way of building backlinks but, please forget about the networks. Search engines do not like the idea of building backlinks with networks.
But this is also not worth the effort. I did this in the beginning because it is an "easy" way to get backlinks. But they are nearly worthless and do not create traffic at all.
If you get accepted in a free directory which isn't promoted and you land on a page 10 pages deep which isn't even indexed, then yeah it's worthless
Make all of your quality sites Featured in some directories and you won't land 30 pages deep into a category.
Exactly. Think about it, you can have hundreds of backlinks that are only 1 or 2 clicks away from the index. Free listings are great too... because they are free .
The free directories are like lottery tickets. They don't waste too much time, but once in a while a link will pay off. Look for niche directories and they'll give you more related and targeted links. Those are great for SEO and some of them even send traffic. Bottom line, you have to spend some time sifting through directories to build your own list of directories that help you.
About my network of sites. I only use one way links from related pages that I own. I don't use reciprocal links. Its not against Googles TOS or considered a link scheme.
Yes I understand, but even then is it worth the effort from a SEO standpoint? There alot of better and easier ways to get quality backlinks. I think the niche directories would be the way to go if they are closely related.
Ok DMOZ is great because it has 4/10 PR sub directories . . . but I've very bad experience with their editors. They are very lazy or corrupt!