I've been looking to use this service, but there are too many threads, Can someone suggest which one is best?
We charge $30 a month for a twelve month contract. Once started its an ongoing task using different key word combinations and opening all doors slowly.
Yes, submitting your site to directories will greatly improve your Google PR and long term backlinks and traffic. Really effective.
The free directories dont do much for PR but thats not an issue any longer. They do however work very well as a entry level point for anyone wanting to shift their sites serp's
Great feedback all guys. Thank you.... My clients sites are generally brochure type mini sites that is in adition to their brick and mortar businesses. It is mainly local small biz type of sites. I add them as part of my design service to the local directories, and this is usually enough to get them indexed as the local dirs are human edited and well known to google et al, but I was wondering about these $10 services and if the additional 50 - 100 directories would give a boost in terms of helping rank 1 - 2 places higher. I get their sites indexed no problem. It;s just that I thought there might be some value in doing a once off run of 100 directory submisions as offerd in the services section of DP forum. I just saw that everyone and their friends are ordering the 100 submit services there but never see any feedback if the submissions actually meant an increase in rankings for anyone? Does the 500 package make a differnce? I see kiviniar says he has had some luck. If it is not worth the money, why is everyone ordering these from the guys in the services section. All you find there is "ordered" posts and "received" posts but noboday givng feedback saying "wow, my site went from page 5 - 2" or "I had the 500 dir package and it did nothing for my rankings". At least in this thread there is some of it comming out. As kiviniar said, the 500 packages worked for him, others are saying the 100 packages are useless, so there is still no concensus on whether the link submission service being offered in the DP service forum is actullualy worth anything?
Most of us do it ourselves and the reason I got started is because, like you, I could find no starting point. The trick to this is in using the correct anchor text and getting the sites into the right categories so that they get accepted. But why not try them out? At $10 a throw you dont stand to lose much.