Can someone enlighten me pls. How can awebsite get traffic by using Web Directories?

I really don't have an idea. What I know right now is social bookmarking sites like digg and stumbleupon who can give you decent traffic.

I am browsing this forum and I saw many "never been heard" domains suggesting us to submit our blog on that domains. But how can we get traffic from these directories if these directories themselves don't get any traffic?


Can someone pls. enlighten me pls. thanks

 

if this directorys like yahoo.dir or dmoz
or selected economy or geografical location of websaite in directory...

 

You can get traffic from the search engines by submitting sites to the directories which eventually leads to increasing backlinks which can improve serps dependant on other factors.

 

pipes you mean these directories sends the blog urls that sent to them to search engines? Doesn't make sense if a blogger can send it directly to search engines and why use third party website like these directories?

 

@bugzy

If you put site online and never touch it, then Search Engines eventually in 2, 3 months will find and add your site to index.

Now if you add your site to Directory, then SE will find your site in 2 weeks or even in 2 days and will your site to index.

Directory is the only friend new site owner has because only directory will give new site backlink

Are we clear now?



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No, the link in a directory, if it gets picked up by the search engines will count as a backlink to your website.

Getting backlinks from a quality directory, websites, blogs etc will lead to better ranking in the search engines for whatever keywords you're trying to rank for.

So then you rank in the search engine when someone performs a search, they see your site in google or yahoo or bing or something and this leads to traffic.

 

Yes, but what I mean is if you can send it directly to search engines or create backlinks in a website with high PR like digitalpoint.com or digg why do you need to use directories? What's the advantage?

 

But how can you make sure that these directories will be the first one to be listed in SERP?

for example you type "computer" in google. The SERP will surely list high PR websites.

 

You cant, it doesn't work like that, you are misunderstanding this.

Your aim should be to get pages of your website to rank for keywords related to the website, so... you build backlinks from various types of websites, including web directories, targetting your keywords.

Your backlinks need to have the keyword for example "computer" in the anchor text (the title that you submit to a web directory) so you are trying to rank for keywords in the search engines, not to get the web directory to rank for them.

But... theres a lot of things that may make it difficult to do this, for example a very competitive niche, like try ranking for mortgage related keywords, you will find it too hard as theres huge competition in trying to rank for something like that.

My personal aim is i go for search engine ranking, and to do this i build backlinks, from directories and other places, some of my sites rank for tons of keywords, others do terrible because ive been daft enough to try very competitive niches and your flogging a dead horse trying to get a site noticed for hard to rank for keywords basically.

Are you enlightend yet? Or do you need more information?

Your website listed in a directory and actually picked up by google = a backlink, obviously this in hundreds of directories can mean backlinks, so if you do this properly, are not in a very competitive niche, have done on-page seo and keep doing this as a long term thing then you may see results some time in the future, but obviously google regularly make changes so nobody knows what will happen next, usually.

 

Thanks pipes repped!

I'm still confused and for myself I think web directories submission is somewhat overrated. I hope someone will prove me wrong here.

Thanks again.

 

I will add to what Pipes has already said that some directories do provide direct traffic fairly quickly but it typically won't be the ones you find in the solicitations area. Like any site, they have to get established before people visit them. Some directories will never reach that point. Other directories, with time and hard work, will grow to become resources that can provide very highly targeted traffic.

I don't think directories in general are overrated. It's more an issue of there being many directory owners that do not understand the difference between a link farm and a directory. Unfortunately, there are many more low-quality junk directories out there than well-edited and maintained ones.

Good SEO strategy involves getting backlinks from different types of sites. It's been my understanding that some of the social networking sites have already been sinking in terms of how Google values their backlinks - Squidoo comes to mind. If you limit your efforts to social media and Google decides to totally discount those links one day, you could find yourself losing all of your rankings over night.

 

This is what I need to know. At first I thought Web Directories are affiliated to big search engines or search engines prioritize them more than normal websites.

So basically they are also websites just like other blogs that needs to be promoted to be on search engines top SERP and to get a high PR they also need backlinks, am I right?

Can someone give me a top web directories with high PR? I think it's worth the time unlike some junk directories posted here in DP.

Thanks!

 

That's exactly right, directories need to be promoted just like any other type of site. The search engines do not treat them differently than any other site. The directories that can provide traffic are the ones that are competitive for terms related to each category i.e. toothbrush websites vs. website directory.

PR alone is not always the best indicator of a quality directory. Any directory that says PR and new in their advertisement is most likely using a dropped domain and the PR will disappear with the next update. Most of the directories that promote themselves based on PR are referring to the PR of the homepage and the listing are often on pages with scores of N/A or 0.

Rather than simply submit based on PR, read the sticky about what makes a good directory. Submitting to a mixture of good new and good established directories will serve you better than simply chasing PR. In my opinion, this list remains the best for identifying worthwhile directories to submit to - http://info.vilesilencer.com/ (Dan recently updated his site and it looks like not all of the features are working yet, but even without the PR info I would still recommend his list.)

 

Now it's clear. Repped!

 

Directories do bring traffic, but indirectly. They help you building one-way relevant backlinks, and thus you get better rankings in Google and other SEs, better ranking means more traffic, and that traffic is very targeted, so they surely help, indirectly that is.

 

No affiliations but that is the whole idea.

Search engines see directories in different light and not because directories supply SE with links, directories also provide textual information eg titles, descriptions, keywords and good directories also provide SE with good content that used by SE to build SERP.



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But you need to be careful because not every directories are good for your backlink campaign. Some of them are considered to be bad neighbourhood due to link farm-ing.

Make sure to only submit your url to directories with at least PR3. That's what I do.

 

Got to social Bookmarking sites & post your original & infomative articles..

 

I don't think you understood the question
Read it again and then read your reply

Can someone enlighten me pls. How can awebsite get traffic by using Web Directories?



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This is bad advice. Yes there are so-called directories which are link farms. But they can also have PR of 3+. Many people buy dropped domains with high PR and put a directory on it to scam people into submitting and make a quick buck.