They work as intended yes... I guess you'll need to expand a bit on your question in order to get a more complete answer.
As a strategy to generate backlinks, directories do work. Make sure that they are part of your SEO campaign even right from the beginning.
Directories work always. But you need to submit on high PR and good quality directories. Only one or two directories can't increase your rankings. There are lot of submissions needed to achieve a satisfactory ranking.
Here's an experiment I did with a site where the only link building I did was with web directories. Long story short, yes they work. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2172178
I believe that the most important aspect is submitting to directories that are closely related to your niche. Free, Pair or whatever, a close relation results in PR and also traffic.
Hi, Yes Directories Work Great If Following Conditions are Ture ! 1. Directory in Unique (Not Same as Other Directories) 2. Directory is More than 2/3 Year Old 3. Hosted On Unique IP 4. Have All Directory Pages Indexed In Google (Specially The Page Where You Going to Submit Your Website), You Can Check it Easily With Couple Of Tools 5. Directory Have Less then 30 Outbound Links On A Page 6. Directory Pages Not Containing A lot of ads 7. All Pages Are Static Not dynamic 8. Finally Directory is Alteast of 2 PR Thanks D Najmi
Yes they do work, but I suggest that you do not submit to a large number of directories at once. Do submissions to a few at regular intervals.
Hi OSSEO, If you have some skills then its take just 5 minutes to check all that for whois >> www.whois.ws >>it will give you age of domain and ip address information by entering ip or domain >>http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server>>you can get how many site hosted on that ip or domain to get to know rather its shared or dedicated ip for google index pages simply on google enter >> site:www.directorydomain.com Outbound link checker for a page >>http://www.searchenginegenie.com/tools/chkOutboundLinks.html>>simple enter directory page google page rank checker >>http://www.prchecker.info/>>simple page rank checker And If you want every thing in one place simply use firefox and use SEO adons Called SeoQuake SEO extension which include all above things . Regards, Najmi
Well I have been submitting my forum to directories and its working for me. My forum has been up for three weeks now and i have 19 members already.