I have been observing that none of directories (Except the dmoz, google, yahoo) has been indexing as backlinks in Google webmasters or Yahoo siteexplorer. So why the people still posting in directories or even they pay for them ?
You can't say that across the board for all directories. I had a link on a PR6 directory page that was the primary cause of my site's PR5. I lost that link and dropped to PR4.
Google doesn't show all links but it counts them. Anyway, most of the directories are PR 0 so you can't expect big SEO effect from a few directory links. This is the reason why people submit their sites to hundreds or thousands of directories. Doing so they increase the chance that some of their links will have good SEO value.
What exactly do you mean? Personally, I have another experience - many directories disappear in a few months and those which stay receive so many submissions that my link is only one from thousands.
Seo friendly directory index in Google but Google does not show all back links, You get one way back link by directory submission or traffic if you submit your website in relevant category
If you are paying for the review, I would expect that you look at PR on internal pages of the categories and whether the directory has unique descriptions etc. If it's a free link, and the page is still getting indexed in google, I don't think you still got more than what you paid ;-)
I believe that directory submissions still has a good effect for the Serps and easy way to get oneway backlinks.
The PR value is domain's not the page where your link stays. And these inner pages could never get PR because their link/word ratio is very low.
Ture, but most directories insist on reciprocal links unless you pay, and then you are into the world of paid for links and nofollow issues. Directory submissions are for the most part, pointless.
In my own tests, probably 95% of the directories out there are worthless and in some cases can hurt your site's ranking. Just because a directory is PR5,6,7,whatever doesn't mean much unless your link is on the homepage or another page on the directory that has that PR score. Usually your link is put on some deep page with a PR1 or PR0.
Directories are still good, the problem is finding the ones that have been online and active for a couple of years, which actually have PR on the inner categories pages.
If you get links from good directories then that will help your site a lot and the other thing is Pr is not everything but it is good to have
I think you can get good links from big directories. But I have one question in my mind why I cant ever get accepted in DMOZ? I have this blog http://mediclab.info and it fits all the rules of DMOZ!