Check out this post: Quality Links to Your Site However, mass submission and submission to bad quality directories are advised against, though not forbidden. This is interesting approval. Your thoughts?
nope i've seen quite a lot screeming about the death of directory submission. and others questioning the effect of commenting and forum signature. so i put this article here
I would still think that it counts less. The links google wants are ones where someone links to you out of the blue because of your good content. Any backlinks that you are able to generate yourself, while still backlinks, are not always going to be super powerful. I would never discount them entirely, but it isn't along the lines of what google is thinking.
Yes exactly, google never said that it doesn't recommends directory links. Directory links were always good for improving PR and SERPs.
It has nothing to do between directory submission and Google. They cannot control and not willing to control the way of directory submission you had done. However, only quality will be counted while the rest will be vanished. It is up to you between quality and quantity in this case. I am saying this from my own experiences. One link from business.com is worth more than 2,000 links from no-name general directory.
Yeah, I think it's always been ok for long established directories like dmoz and yahoo etc, and if you add travel sites to travel directories, car sites to automotive directories and so on.
indeed,is hard to get in good directories. but also paid directories are a good way if they are quality ones
Paid directories usually have better quality sites in too because the links are usually submitted by people with proper websites that they care about. People hardly ever submit spammy junk to paid directories because the people who make spammy junk sites are usually idiots with no intention of spending any money, or scammers who don't have a paypal account or don't want to have any connection between the spammy site they're submitting and their paypal account, so they can't be traced. Of course this doesn't apply to dmoz exactly as it's free, but they have it the other way around where the people approving the links care about the sites in there.
totally agree. actually user behavior (CTR, time on site, bounce, etc) is also considered when google is doing the ranking calculations
Realy nothing new here but not realy good links most directories have like 1000+ Links how do you expect them to have any link weight ?
very glad to see that many ppl here acknowledge the usefulness of proper directories. the reason i post google's article here is becuase i saw some people questioning directories and claiming their death. so the challenge here is how to find relevant and quality directory to submit to.
Guys understand that Directories aren't that good I have seenn people get listed in DMOZ And get like 2-3 places up in SERPS for a not very competative term ... And DMOZ Is considered the best dirrectory
Agreed. The only people who have disagreed with directory submissions are other SEO'ers who don't believe in it.
Google definitely doesn't have a problem with Directory Submission, because in case no one noticed, Google has a directory site of it's own. directory.google.com Haha