I was thinking about buying a PR5 directory and then placing a link at the bottom of every page with a keyword anchor link to my domain.... I could easily build 5k+ PR5 backlinks.... Is this method used in SEO?? I have done some research and found that it is done by some major companies. Experts please give your thoughts!
No, Those 5000+ Backlinks of PR 5 came from only Single IP so you will not get the IP benefit to your site. and all unique IP back links will play major role regarding your backlinks factor in search engine. it's not good way that you will got 5000+ back links through Web Directory you will got only ONE back links in search engine which is site wide. so basically it's your single IP back links and you still have to work to gain more back links so link building is the solutions for you not only with 5K+ PR 5 Back links though it's helpful for your site in some factor but it's not enough for your site.
No. Personally, I go with the one link per url rule. That sitewide stuff is just to spammy, you want links on relevant pages, with relevant surrounding context. Not just plastered on the bottom of some random page. This is just my opinions though, one thing about SEO is there is more than one way to get things done.
I agree, look at it from Google's POV what is a sitewide adding to the site? A link from a single page and in context is much more valuable and less easy to de-value.
A link is a like a direct vote for a website. Think of it this way. A politician could get 5000 votes from 5000 different people, thats worth a lot. But if one person submitted 5000 votes for a politician all on their own, well, that's still only one person voting. You will not get the value of 5000 links, you are more likely to get the value of one link.
oh? and you've tried submiting to directories recently, I have and I can tell you they still pass value. Google says a lot of things in their guidelines, but don't take it as fact, they manufacture these documents to favour themselves so that people will stop doing things like directory submission.
No. YOu will have to get backlinks from different websites and different web pages. This is because these webpages are indexed with different major search engines like Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc. You can build backlinks easier by commenting on blogs with high page rank. Good luck
Yep it is true that Google does not value sitewide links much. You'd be better off getting links from multiple sources. On the other hand, this would probably help your Yahoo rankings. As for directories in general, Google is not smart enough to know what is a directory and what isn't. There has been no massive directory link degrading. All they did was remove the directory submission recommendation. Really they are just trying to get people to pump money into PPC instead of spending money to get rankings.
I don't understand the one link per url? What if you have 100 articles and you submit them to one article site. Is it only going to give you credit for one link? I don't know if this is necessarily right.
Basically you're around about right. You certainly won't be accredited for all 100 links. To understand why this is the case you have to understand why Google counts backlinks in the first place. Here's a quick lesson: Back when the first search engines were created they would simply count the occurances of a word on a page. They'd also look at the title of the page and the keywords in the meta tags. The more times a particular word was repeated the more likely you'd rank higher for that term. Intially this was a semi effective way of categorising sites properly, example, all the sites about dogs would come up when you typed dog or when you typed new york, you'd get sites about New York. But this alone isn't necessarily helpful, sure you'd get on topic sites, but you may still have to sift through many pages before finding the 'best site'. Besides it was easy to spam, you could just put the word dog 100 times at the bottom of your page and hey presto you'd rank for dog, even if you were actually a site selling viagra. So basically search engines needed to find a way to get the better sites to rank near the top. Larry Page, the inventor of pagerank, came up with a clever solution, he said that those sites that are 'best' will probably have more links pointing to them because people will have referenced to the best documents more often than those that are poor. Every single link is kind of like a vote, behind the link is someone who has read through the website and liked it enough to link to it. So... perhaps now you will understand why one website sending 100 links to you is not as good as having 100 different websites linking to you. When 100 different websites have linked to you, in theory, that means 100 different people thought you were good enough to link to. When one website sends 100 links to you, thats not likely to be 100 different people behind those links, that's just 1 person making 100 links. If it weren't the case anyone could setup a domain and send many millions of links to one website.
I'm going to say yes. I used that method to get my sites blog up. As long as the site you are linking to has good content then I would say yes. I linked to http://playpassgames.wordpress.com from my site http://www.playpassgames.com. I put the link in the header of every page with an anchor of "Arcade Blog" and when the PR update came it was a PR3. Worked for me. I know that is not the only factor, but I'm sure it was a big one. Hope this helps!