guys, what do you think? I'm in dillema here. 1- buy links from related site i.e. buy text link 2- buy links from paid directory What is your experience? For me, I have yet to really invest large sum of money in paid listing in the directory coz i thought may be a free directory will just do fine. I did invest money for inbound link from related sites and I could see really my ranking for a keyword shoot up so high. Note also that, some good paid directory DO NOT give you free choice of your keyword, so you may invest money but not for really good keyword. What do you think?
Its depend actually , from relevant sites its better if they only put links to other relavant sites. If I find they put links indiscriminately that makes me think more .
let's see what other big players said. I also feel about related link inbound link rather than paid link from directory. However, I hope to hear some good point there about Paid Listing of Directory and it helps in achieving Keyword results. Remember, some paid listing is not flexible enough to give keyword of your choice, so would it be helpful in this sense?
what would you say about keyword restriction? such as I wouldn't be able to put up keyword of my choice such as "webmaster forum", for example? will "popotalk webmaster forum" helpful too in term of SEO? coz many people say Anchor Text is very important in seo perspective.
I don't know about other Directory owners toby but in mine KEYWORD STUFFING is a VERY BIG NO-NO its the same as SPAMMING. Lets take a few examples. Title Alive Web Directory Aviva Web Directory eWebPages Web Directory Romow Web Directory These are samples of Good Titles Bad Titles are Blank Web Directory - Strong Directory of Friendly Url Blank web directory Descriptions Don't double or triple keywords such as: Blank Web Directory is the Best web directory and is human edited. In our web directory all listings are manually edited and have good SEO url submit to our directory now. With that above I just TRASH it. Read it if it sounds right. Any Grade 3 student can write much better than that. In the case of a Sitewide Link: Blank Web Directory Blank Internet Directory Blank Webmaster Forum Target a popular specific keyword. but always place the name of your site to be recognized. If you just put Webmaster Forum unless they click it they woul not know. That is just from me.
Both will help, but IMO content links are better. Think of it from G's perspective. Its easy to buy listings in directories, but not from quality content sites. So maybe G gives much greater benefit to content site links.
definately from related site because when you buy you are getting sitewide mostly and if only one page it is still better from Google's Perspective.
I am with Jude--you require links from both. I think it is very hard to find enough links from related sites that one desires. On the other hand you require lots of links for serps purpose. So both are required to put a balance.