I have a few questions about getting backlinks from directories. 1) Is it possible to be penalized for having too many one way links from many different directories? 2) Can I be penalized if a directory which I have a link in becomes penalized? thanks for the info, I have a new PR0 website and have had difficulty finding places to get links from besides directories.
I'd be more worried of the penality of not having enough directory links. No. What another site does doesn't effect you unless you are linking to it. It has to be this way. Otherwise, I would destroy my competitors by linking to them with a horrendously obvious black hat site. Brandon
First of all lets define penalizing. penelizing isnt like some people think. Its more like giving each link a value lets say a perfect inbound is 10 but if the link doesnt mean certain guidelines then you migh set a 3 instead of a 10. If you have links that link to you and they are blacklisted or many are banned then this absolutly could adversly affect you. Its best to stick with more well known sites for link exchanges. Some of the things to check our are age of site, pages cache, index, link pop, hidden text, inbound links of that site and see what those sites quality are, alexa rank, i frames, CAche Cache Cached. To see these things you need tools. here are some great tools
Is it shameless if am providing advice to help people? I guess that shows what you know!!! NOTHING!! Do your SEO research before you make a claim. If you honestly think that these seo tools wont help people then you have no business on this forum
Thank you! I forgot to mention you might want to stay away from link market and link metro if you want to aviod spammy sites. Although using them might get you high in msn but who cares about MSN.
If you link to evryone it's very posible to get affected If you are very pick with linking all is safe From directorys it's a litlle bit probably you get penaltiez