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I think submitting to web directory is waste of time?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by jennypretty, Aug 22, 2008.

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    Hello,

    I paid for a guy who submited my site a few months ago, around $10 for 500 directories. After the submission is completed for about 3 weeks, my site gets good indexed on google, but now it does not show at all, even worse than before submission.

    Does any one know why? do we have to keep submitting to directories? every month or so?

    Thanks,
    Jenny.
     
    jennypretty, Aug 22, 2008 IP
  2. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    There are so many variables involved with Google, you can just blame it on the web directory submission. It can be anything under the Sun.
     
    wisdomtool, Aug 22, 2008 IP
  3. salihpk

    salihpk Banned

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    if you go before non professional cheap services you can get negative effect.
     
    salihpk, Aug 22, 2008 IP
  4. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    How bad can submitting a simple link to a web directory do? Cheap or expensive it is still the usual submission. The professional ones may vary the description and anchor text as well as ensure the correct categories. But I think the differences ends here.

     
    wisdomtool, Aug 22, 2008 IP
  5. catanich

    catanich Peon

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    There are very few directories today that are worth submitting a site to. I did it for years.

    By being an active member in DP, I get better results, learn more, and get to know some great people.

    Forget the submissions. Create content, participate in DP, and start building quality links.

    And the next time you want to spend $10, buy an SEOer a drink.
     
    catanich, Aug 22, 2008 IP
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  6. kanwarjot

    kanwarjot Notable Member

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    Directory submission is useful as it increases backlinks...It depends on whether you had got manual or automatic submission...Automatic submission can throw your site in spam list by directory owners which might be the case in your scenario
     
    kanwarjot, Aug 22, 2008 IP
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    zk5182 Active Member

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    get crazy with backlinks as a continous process to retain and gain PR
     
    zk5182, Aug 22, 2008 IP
  8. jophan

    jophan Active Member

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    normally, if you want to see the effect of directory submissions you
    have to wait several month up to one year. that was my experience.
     
    jophan, Aug 22, 2008 IP
  9. lycos

    lycos Well-Known Member

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    Just about few weeks ago, I read a topic about google now downgrading the PR of directory specific pages. I mean the main page still shows a certain ranking but the inner pages no longer have it. It seems like they don't place much importance on directories anymore.
     
    lycos, Aug 22, 2008 IP
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    silveraden Banned

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    That's too cheap and I don't think that guy really submitted your site to 500 directories... you paid for 20 submissions only.. :D
     
    silveraden, Aug 22, 2008 IP
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    I think you'd better submitt your web at some directories which have high PR ,it will be better.
     
    jingwen, Aug 22, 2008 IP
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    most probably it's not a manual submission. nobody would do it for that cheap. directory submission is only good for PR and nothing more.
     
    n3o, Aug 22, 2008 IP
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    you got served. lol

    The guy submitted to his networked directories which has very little value, you need to have the full SEO package to benefit to a higher SERP
     
    MRniceGuy007, Aug 22, 2008 IP
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    IMO back links help you to get PR for your site. If you want only PR than surely go crazy for directory submission and etc... But if you are interested in SERP and traffic for your site than do quality link building and do good social networking. Social networking helps you to get good quality back links and as well as increase traffic to your site also.

    It is true that today very less directories are there which has very good quality and PR and also giving free back link to your site. :D

    Mostly good directories provide paid links rather with nofollow attribute. So, do not run after only directory submission do some other things for getting well position in SERPs.
     
    cnvseo, Aug 23, 2008 IP
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    ninjashoes Well-Known Member

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    I would like to see an updated experiment involving diretories and serps.
     
    ninjashoes, Aug 23, 2008 IP