Can submitting to too many sites at a very short span of time bring trouble ?

Hi,

I am just wondering that if we submit our site to too many direcories in couple of days of time, than can this make google penalize you in terms of PR or extended sandbox duration ?

 

It depends on how many sites you submit to, how many links your site has and how old it is.

As long as you only submit to a couple of hundred directories you should be OK, don't forget google won't suddenly find all your links at the same time - some links may not be found for weeks.

 

Good point. I submit to 10 directories every day or so. And Only those with a pagerank. I have an updated list and actually do research on new directories and keep tabs on all directories if you need any information feel free to pm me sometime or email me even.

 

Also don't forget that your submission to the directory will not immediately be approved. That too will help the staggering of your links becoming available.

 

Hi,
I am not a SEO but have some 1 listings on google. See if you could use my views.
There are many things here which you must consider.

1. The number of directories you are submitting to .
If it is Over 50 , then it may create suspicion that you are using some sort of software to boost your link popularity .
"Sites with high PR" are on a regular visit by search engines than "others".
Their text , links etc. are all taken into account faster. The higher the PR , the more it is noted.
Submission to many at the same time triggers this . Even if you submitted to 100 and only 20 approved and displayed your link in one day , 20 the second day and 20 again on third day , 60 links in three days could trigger this . Plus the second day you will submit to another 100 . Calculate it.
I personally seek and prefer submitting to new directories because they are "gradually" indexed and your link is not crowded between another 40 links. Today or tomorrow the page will pick a PR.

2. The text displayed in link .
Even if you are getting 20 links everyday let's say naturally , then it is sure that people are using different text in their links. When submitting to directories , have a set of titles like "html editor" , "SSS12 html editor", "html editor with features", "Feature rich html editor", etc.
Each is different but each has your keywords. This reduces chances of penalty.
On a side note that is a very tough keyword and I am not in SERP's for that.

3. Submit to only directories which you think do not use BH tech.
If you hire a firm to manage directory submission for you , then most have a list of quality directories . Softwares are only collection of any found .
May be when a directory was added to a software , it was good but you don't know what happenned later .Couldn't say if it linked to a bad site and dropped it's PR or got penalised.
Fine if penalised because now you know it is linking to a bad neighbour but if it dropped PR , you will still think that this a good directory. You don't know it was better but now suffers a penalty. You will only see a PR. ( Google PR : A reflection of a good site ).
Good Directory submmission firms I think would know that because they are on a regular visit to directories and would note the drop in PR.

No problem submitting to a directory like this but what if you are asked to have a reciprocal link ???
And most old directories ask for that. New ones don't because they want to have a database first.
New sites of people who know a little seo will pick PR anyway and the link is one way!

4. Are you asked to place a reciprocal link ?
Should I explain it ?

Those are just my views and may be someone thinks differently.
Best wishes for your site.
Regards
Jeet