Hi all SEO guru's I have noticed many poorly run Directories, most Free - where the directories are leaving the "pending" submissions pile up - in a few cases more than 100k Example: Active Links: 5213 Pending Links: 125535 Todays Links: 264 Total Articles: 2 Total Categories: 13 Sub Categories: 687 This Directory has "supposedly" 5,200 active links and 125,000 pending My question for the knowledgeable SEO's here: 1. Does the Pending links show up and count when the search engine bots visit such a directory - or is it only active links that the bots recognize ..........???? I would be interested to find out as more than 100,000 sites have been submited and continues to grow - by the looks - at nearly 300 a day........???? I do not understand why webmasters continue to submit to these sites? Thanks
Ans :- 1.) Only approved links are count not the pending one. Approved links does not show in the link back count unless the page is indexed, it might take long to show that approved link in your back link count. 2.) There are hundreds of directory submitter in online world whose business is to submit the sites to free directories they keep on receiving orders and keep on submitting the new sites to directories. Because they do not have any hold on the approval so they just do their work i.e submission. Only the owner of the directory have the right to approve or disapprove any link submitted to his/her directory, if your site is there in the pending box may be one day the owner approve all the links when he gets time to moderate his directory, so better to be in queue I hope this helps. Thanks