Hello, I am thinking about buying some links in directories, but I wonder if such links are really useful to increase the PR. I looked for instance at these directories:http://www.epitrope.com/ & http://www.kamsdir.com Each have a good PR on their index: http://www.epitrope.com/ has PageRank 5/10. http://www.kamsdir.com has PageRank 6/10. But the pages on which the links would be posted are PR0. http://www.epitrope.com/computers/multimedia/ has PageRank 0/10. http://www.kamsdir.com/97/multimedia/ has PageRank 0/10. So basically, would a link on a PR0 page, which has a main domain PR5 or PR6, help my PR or not? Or does a link only increase your PR if positionned on a page which has a PR higher than yours? Thanks in advance and sorry for the noobs question :/ Regards, Ludo
They have PR0 because most probably the directories are newly established, even the higher categories have PR0. Main page PR appears to be real. It will help with your PR if that's what you are after, as on the next PR update, the PR shall appear for all those PR0 pages. All backlinks count, not only those positioned on pages with higher PR than yours.
The PR of the page your link apears on is the PR that is passed to your site if the google algo does allow the PR to be passed. New directories do have low PR pages but that will change over time. Look at your link popularity as a marathon rather than a sprint and you'll be fine. Submit articles to article directories. Start a RSS news letter. Find relevant message boards (especially on .edu sites) and post with your website in the signature section. Add good content to your site on a monthly basis. Do those things plus submit to directories and your PR and SERP position will follow.
Some directories do not pass PR at all, although most do. Here is a killer list of directories I found somewhere: http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php Yahoo is expensive, but I hear its a good one to be listed in; Can anyone back that up?
Thanks for this link!! Here is perhaps another noobs question, but how you know (except with this list of directories) if the directories pass PR or not? and how can you set a website to not pass its PR? Regards, Ludo
0 PR now could be pr5-6 next update i buy a few featured listings or paid in directories and they do help
Yes, Yahoo is great. My friend listed a site unindexed by google for $300 on yahoo and a week later his page rank was PR 5 and showing up on page 1 of most google searches.
As long as the websites are not banned by Google (grey bar), do not use shady javascripts for the links and/or rel='nofollow' tags on the hrefs, they should all pass *some* pr. the amount they pass is dependant on the number of links on the page along with yours, and the PR of that page. the only exception to this is some VERY high profile sites that have had pr-passing disabled. this appears to be on a manual basis and is thus only realistic for the largest sites (e.g. this probably wouldn't ever happen with pr6 and below).
Submit to http://www.site-sift.com, most of their subject pages have high PR. Paying for high PR directories definately bumps your PR up, the problem is most of them are fussy about using keywords in your link text so its harder to get valuable keywords.