Looking for some pros and cons of Directory submission

Hi I am working for a website design company and have been placed in charge of marketing.....I am looking for some pros and cons of Directory submission

I feel this would be our best step in achieving more traffic... as we will get more back links to our site, but the powers that be are stalling.....has any one any ideas that will make them see sense....or maybe a report on the pros and cons of Directory submission


Thanks

Steve

 

Select quality before quantity

PM me if you want details thanks

 

Inbound links can't hurt. There aren't really any cons. Maybe if you were to pay for a submission and then google later stripped the directory of its PR.

 

britishguy Do you mean high PR Directories ???


Steve

 

As far as free submission there's no real downside except time consumption. As far as paid directories downside is money.

You won't lose traffic, and can only gain really as far as inbound links.

Pro= traffic
Con= time & money

BTW the "traffic" isn't from the directories it's from search engines that are manipulated by directories.

 

Yes i understand that the traffic will not come from the directories

thanks for your comments

steve

 

Will one of my favourite reads would be this....

http://www.seobook.com/archives/001583.shtml

See if it makes sense and is what u are looking for

 

Thanks will take a look and let you know


steve

 

High PR is subjective but many high ranked quality sites have high PR as they have been around a good time and have been well supported and promoted

But there is quality on the way up too, so it is important that you are selective and get value added sites that you submit to

 

Directories scroll down; under the search; right side: http://www.avivadirectory.com/downloadblog/

 

Pros: gets traffic and PR
Cons: time...effort, possibility of spam emails.

 

The directory should have a high PR. Some directories will take forever to include your link but once approved its a more permanent backlink. So longer time to get your backlink compensated with permanence.

 

and why should it have high PR? let me hear this one.

 

You want the cons. Well since Google can't penalize your site for who links to you, I guess the only cons are the time and/or money you spent to get listed.

 

Thanks good to know google wont penalize for linking in...

would that mean one way linking all the way?

would be good to know also whay the Directory has to be high pr

steve

 

It's obvious that you should get a link from web design sites. This is even a better value than a link from a general directory.

If you want links from directories, go for PR. Like you said, directories won't give you any traffic. So what other reason you need to submit your link to a directory?

Unless being listed on Yahoo! Dir or Dmoz;

web design sites or webmaster sites > web design only directory > general directory > everything else

 

Good comments

ANY MORE PROS AND CONS?