Is directory submission still a good SEO practice?

Some good information up there. Thanks to those (mikey, pipes, et al) that fleshed out a few nuances that frequently get overlooked.

 

So what we are saying is that the higher the PR is, the better the link. I know its a difficult call but how much should one consider paying for a link in a "high PR" directory? Should one be concerned if the site is less than a year old? What if the PR does not filter down to pages where the links are listed? What other factors should one be looking at?

 

i have submitted my links to DMOZ yesterday. Will they let me know one way or another about decision. Thanks.

 

Nope, they dont have any auto-reply functions in place and do not as a policy notify. It either shows up or not. Sometimes it happens quickly if you hit a well-tended spot, but thats the exception. Typically a long wait if it happens at all. You've done all you can on it tho, so just move forward with other means now... checking frequently is like watching water and waiting for it to boil.

 

I found 1 sitewide link on some nice "real" site to be 100 times more effective for SEO than countless directory submissions.
However directory submissions could be an easy way to build some links and diversify your link profile.

 

Directory submissions are one club in the SEO golf bag. It's nice to have a sand wedge, but you don't play the whole course with it.

 

Simple as that. More links to your site won't *HURT* you, leave it at that.

 

There is a post running on another forum where a webmaster took a knock in the serp's after moving his site to a new server . The other possible explanation were the site wide links he was carrying in his footer. Are they such a good idea?

Directory links imho are the most cost effective means of getting long term value and growth from a link buiding exercise. That is if you choose sites which are going to go the distance and which stick to a spam free policy.

 

i must contradict you. in my case directory submisions brings good results in google searches but not at all in yahoo searches

 

it depends on directory and where they place your link, and which anchor tag you are using for submission.

not more chances to get visitors from directories, but still good for PR.

 

IMO..its still give a significant impact in SEO

 

Moving to a new server could kill your site in Google sometimes (for certain period, not forever). Many have experienced that.
So I don't think sitewide links have anything to do with that.

 

I think it works as some of my website 90% of my links are coming from directories, as for some keywords that are not very competitive, 10 of them I have ended up being on the first page of Google and other search engines. So it's still useful, but for competitive keywords you need more than just directories.

 

yes directory submission is useful but useful for only quality submission

 

Directory submission is very helpful to increase our site in all the search engine.....

 

What is a quality sumission?

 

Directory postings is good enough to getting back links in search engine. and all do fallow back links can increasing your SERPS as well so keep doing directory submission guys.
it working effectively yet.

 

I gather they're talking about *which* directories you submit to. The correct answer is a subject that gets a lotta ink in this forum.

 

Thats the problem. The way I see it, there are a lot of different people and a whole lot of vested interests but not a lot of common sense

 

as far as I think in start of your seo campaign you need to go through directory submission route to gain quick backlinks.