Directories submission is DEAD !!!

I have just finished watching a series of Matt Cutt videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp

From what I gather, there are many things that what most people do (SEO related efforts) are deemed quite useless by Google.

It's like Google does not see any point in links from directories containing just millions of URLs with different subjects from A-Z.

In fact, I think Google is starting to penalise those with links they think is spammy.

Any comments?

 

ohh...this topic is brought again......!

why some one brings this same statement again and again ?

 

I do not think directory submision is really dead. It may has been devalued from Google, but still a value in it anyway. If you are link builder you should already know that directory submission is only a part of overall link building process. You cannot just rely on links from free general directories to archive the results you wanted.

It's not dead yet and will not for now.

 

Google has said this many times in the past but directory links still seem to work, especially for indexing. The point is, you need other kinds of links in the mix for general SEO.

 

I think that its more obtaining a balance from directory link , forum links , comments and article ones. If you have your links in relevant places to your site / blog and are not spamming there is no reason for Google now to consider them .

 

You cant just do Dirrectory submission or blog commenting for Good SEO you need Web 2.0 Links+Forum Links+Dirrectory Submission+RSS Feed+Fresh Content+Blog Commenting+Bookmarking+ ALOT OF STUFF

 

Thats why getting to the first page of google is really challenging and requires lots of hard work and patience ....

 

I don't think that directory submission is dead. it's depend on you how you going submission

 

if directories submission is dead so why do SEO service submit your site to 1000 directory ?

 

8 threads that already cover this subject explicitly;
- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=405105&highlight=dead
- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1640982&highlight=dead
- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1697049&highlight=dead
- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1415681&highlight=dead
- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=901503&highlight=dead
- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1420323&highlight=dead
- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=405960&highlight=dead
- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1370905&highlight=dead

There's a whole heap more. This is something that has been posted every few weeks for years and posters never have anything new to add.

 

indeed, it's depend on you how you going submission
i think so at last

 

Directory back-links is not dead.

Regards

 

Did u implement this tactics? Or have u ever been submit it? I think blended techniques are the best.

 

If you get a balance from directory submission + social bookmarking + article submission, it should be fine.

 

Everything you wrote applies only to thousands of disposable directories, many of which do not even indexed by search engines. Submit your site into these directories and you will not get any benefit. And if you use only one anchor for all of these directories - will harm to SEO of your site. And it's true.
But there are catalogs that are in high esteem by Google. Submission in these directories - will give you a lot of backlinks as well as small number of new visitors. After a time PR and SERPof your website will improve. Only focus on quality directories and use good descriptions with different anchors.

Question to those who believes that directories are dead for Google: How did it happen that many web directories have PR7 - 8?

 

Matt Cutts said in a video that directory links are fine, even if they are paid, if they do an effective review for quality...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pu1YWcIh04&feature=player_embedded He more or less says that the only times Google will penalise a link from a paid directory is if they just accept any link without any quality control.

 

Who said that directory submission is dead. Then why we all submit our site to directories ???

 

Well, according to G. toolbar PR is useless and meaningless metrics.

I'm not going to exhibit to you thousands of examples where site with hundreds backlinks according to G. link:
ranked PR 3 or 4 and site with a couple of dozens backlinks ranked PR 7 or 8

In the Real World such a thing shouldn't and wouldn't ever happen but in G. World, everything is possible.



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And recent discussions have proved it's both manipulable and customizable too.

 

I think it's a little bold to say that SEO is dead... The methods are constantly changing with the web. The key is to be able to recognize these changes and adapt your strategies to be compatible with them.