Unique Submissions might be best

Nowadays, I am trying to use unique titles and unique descriptions for each submission to any directory.

When I do this, my results are always better.

One of the biggest single problems faced by most new directories is duplicate content, just pick any link from a new directory and run a google search for the title and description and you will probably find 10 to 20 identical listings in different directories. Google may rank the first one it caches, the rest are toast.

By the way, Google appears to define Spam pages as pages lacking in unique content and meant solely to benefit from Search engine traffic for advertising

That description would probably apply to most directory pages filled with duplicate listing content.

just a thought

 

I have been saying this for years and totally agree.

 

been doing this for a year already - all descriptions are modified to a degree to keep them unique.

 

it's not a new idea, some directory submission services offer various title and description...

 

mine too

I do strongly believe in using various description and anchor texts.

 

it does good to both directory owners and the customers

 

What about all the other links, descriptions, titles on the same page? Doesn't that make every URL unique (unless we have exactly the same submissions)?

 

@Zexy.. last I read google calculated md5 checksum (to find duplicate content) for the whole document as well as for each paragraph.. If each URL description can be considered one paragraph then it might be able to detect the pattern.

Secondly, many directories have 'detail' pages leading to obvious duplicate content..

I 'think' using unique description is good but I don't think the time and effort put-in for creating unique description for 'each' submission would reciprocate the benefit.. but I still have to try it with one site

 

yes i am agree with your point

 

That's pretty interesting. Do you happen to have a source URL? I would like to know more.

 

from the viewpoint of a submitter at the very least I would think it would be beneficial to have as wide a variety of titles and descriptions as possible.

from a webmaster's perpective though I think its important to make every description unique since the vast majority of submitters are not submitting a unique description to your directory
you think this is beneficial now well I think it can only become more beneficial come another wave of devaluing directories using the same title/description listings..

 

a lot of very useful information, which lam going to act, you learn more things every day in this forum a its great to see that eveyone is trying to help all,great advise

 

i totally agree on this one, great post

 

Yeah, thats the way it just is...

 

I strongly agree with this line of thinking.

 

Wow, I never knew so many people are doing that besides me - when you use a unique description for your site - the page of the directory gets indexed faster...

 

its really good method to increase your sites visibility in the listings as unique title gets more quick response.

 

Just curious, if uniqueness is that much important then why do dmoz shares it database with many directories?? doesn't dmoz wants more traffic for unique content??

 

When a search engine indexes and caches content, we are told that the SE attempts to locate the original source of the content. Once it has assigned a point of origin, all other identical content is duplicate and usually off less value and ranked accordingly.

Dmoz.org and dir.yahoo.com are the top directories, using the same content as them is probably a really bad idea for the directory copying them.