After reading a claim that someone saw a 0% return rate on their directory submissions from several years ago, I wondered how my own submissions performed over time. I took my submission spreadsheet and looked for submissions that were at least a year old. OK, I admit, I cheated a bit here - I only included directories that started with the letter A in my sample. I did not want to go through thousands of submissions and websites to simply prove that a 0% return rate is simply not credible. Needless to say, my results were much higher than 0%. If anyone's interested, I blogged about my results and listed those A-named directories that passed my little experiment. Directory Life Spans and Submission ROI Keep in mind this was not about PR, SERPs or backlink counts since all of those are at the capricious whims of Google. This was purely an exercise in determining directory longevity and submission acceptance. Comments anyone?
Not bad. Perhaps replicate that sample twice more in other areas down the list. Wonder how much benefit you're receiving from those alive directories.
Sounds good, 50% success is not bad. But as mikey said, I'm also wondering how much does it really help.
2 years ago I was playing with a basic free directory, that quickly became popular at that time. I used to do directory submissions myself daily (we are only talking about directory backlinks). I erased that directory since 1year+ ago. Today, after 1 year+ since I closed that directory, I was looking in Yahoo! site explorer and saw 999 backlinks pointing to it. Those backlinks are mainly from the free directories I submitted that time. If you know how to select directories & you also have a little luck, you can get some steady backlinks from directories.
I'll probably go back and pick another letter because I'm curious now. It will be interesting to see if the stats hold up if the sample size grows.
That's interesting, and more or less replicates my experience. Submitting to free directories is always a bit of a lottery (although the same can be said of the less established paid ones). I don't know how you can estimate figures for the attrition rate of websites in any industry, without having a lot of bias due to the way you define real websites. I mean, every topic has blackhat spammers who register and drop a bunch of domains very quickly, so there has to be some line drawn when you decide which websites you include in your tests. The old Vilesilencer list was quite selective in the first place, and it's even more so now. The more picky you are about who you put on the list, the longer those websites are likely to last because good quality tends to lead to success. That would probably make a really good metric for the quality of any directory: what is the attrition rate of the listings?
Usually Directory Submission help but our link from directory just for 1 week/month if You have the software maybe it is more easier because our registration data has been save one by one