Someone who thinks ever got any benefit from dir submission, suggest me 20 good free directories. I'm doing an experiment.
But? 1,500 dirs? 100 dirs? Which dirs? I will submit ONE page from our site. One that has no tough competition.
Its not just how good a directory is, its how you use it or them. Then after that its dependant on the search engines doing their bit, so its hard to say this or that directory is a good one. For serps id suggest submitting to a lot of directories as well as using other types of sites and methods. If you have tough competition then its probably going to be a long term process, regardless of your approach, unless you spend a lot and fast, which might bring your site the type of attention that is not good. For free directories, just start using them, 20 free aint going to do anything for you if you have tough competition. 20 paid aint going to do anything for you if you have tough competition either.
I'll chose a page, one page from the site that has NO tough competition. My aim is to check, if dirs have any influence on SERPs. It is a health site.
Then it really doesn't matter which free ones you choose. Your experiment is too small, i feel. Edit: an apologies i first read your post as with tough competition.
Trouble is that really good free directories have thousands of submissions in queue and it might take 4 - 6 months until you'l get reviewed (approved or not)...don't think you'll fancy to wait that much just for this little experiment. Try getting approved in dmoz and then I'll tell you the other 9 )
It's hard to do big experiments for eventual no benefit. C'mon Loredan. DMOZ has no fancy name, so I skip this one Healthhype is in Yahoo dir, ok tell me next 8 now. Nice sig .
You can use the search in my sig to find General directories with a PR4 or above and a Traffic Rank of 4 or above with a Standard Listing price of Free. There are more than 50 in the list. You should be able to find 20 quality directories from the list. You may also want to limit your search to directories that accept deep links since you're not submitting your home page. One other thing I'd suggest is a test with Niche directories too. Pick another page on your site that has little competition and submit them to a handful of free directories in your niche. Good luck. Let us know what happens.
Everything has a benefit, even if its just to tell you that you shouldn't carry on with something. You gain that knowledge. Ive asked hundreds of questions here over the years but ultimately i have to try for myself, then im able to see for sure what provides a benefit.