There are so many directories service over Internet. What make different between one directory and others ?
Here is an article I posted a while back that may answer your question. Beats the heck out of writing it all out here every time that question is asked.
Good read and good advice to take in when setting out in link directory submission but basically it's pretty simple. It doesn't have to be about quantity of backlinks but quality. Having your site on a handfull of PR7+ directories with good anchor text keyword for your site can be better than having it with 1000 PR0+ dirs. But Google has changed its algorithems and site relevancy structure so much, so many other things come into consideration as well. Anyway just keep submitting to directories. Just make sure that they are do follow ><
Even thou we have different opinions in some areas, in general article in http://www.amray.com/blog/?p=1 will complement each other. fastreplies
agreed Mkcoy... Directory submission is too helpful to in serps. If we can do daily 50 t0 60 directory submission then its really effective..
Well hmm that raises a question just exactly how many a day should you do? I would say concentrate more on the content, community and accessibility of your site and your Alexa rank. Try to get your PR up naturally. The best directories you could ever get into our DMOZ and Yahoo Directory. That's what I want to happen.
Excellent article there Bruce. Mods should reference it in a sticky thread to help the newer people around here.
OP: What different between one directory to others @Mkcoy What are you talking about? Have you read topic's subject? Read it again and see if your 2 posts have anything to do with what OP is talking about fastreplies
What's your problem?? How the hell do my posts have no relevancy to what the OP is talking about? Also this isn't even your thread so what are you getting so mad about? LOL You need to chill the fcuk out mate else youll give yourself a stress induced headache. What do you mean "What am I talking about"? Let's break this down so it's easy for your mind to comprehend. amit786 quoted my post and replied with "agreed Mkcoy... Directory submission is too helpful to in serps. If we can do daily 50 t0 60 directory submission then its really effective.." In response to to my post where I actually rated your link that you left (So again wtf is yr problem) Secondly the OP was talking about link directory submission. So my response was to do with link directory submission. It's there but I'll quote it again for you. "Well hmm that raises a question just exactly how many a day should you do? I would say concentrate more on the content, community and accessibility of your site and your Alexa rank. Try to get your PR up naturally. The best directories you could ever get into our DMOZ and Yahoo Directory. That's what I want to happen." So yes I'm pretty sure I have read the topics subject considering I am actually answering it in a relevant way. He's talking about apples. I'm talking about apples. Think you own me an apology mate.
Apology??? Well, let talk about what you said and reply from amit786 You said: and amit786 said: effectively contradicting your point and yet you replied: Do you really believe that one should submit to 50 directories per day, 1500 directories per next month? amit786 believes that this is what OP should be doing. Which brings me to OP post. Show me where OP in any form or shape is asking about submissions to directories and where in your initial post you're talking about differences between directories? fastreplies
That's a good question but cannot be answered briefly. A few thigs I do when I look at a directory for the first time are: Look at the domain name. If it looks like it should belong to a different type of site it probably did and has been purchased to use the existing pagerank to add value for somebody making a quick buck (check the cache). Look at the homepage, does it look focused on providing a directory service or somebody making a quick buck, has the owner even bothered to design a custom template? If it has a 'recent submissions' page check that. If the descriptions are all written in the third party, grammatically correct, and with a similar theme of writing, and describe the site's content in a useful manner it's probably well edited. If the descriptions read like they're full of keywords, promotional lingo and/or a whole paragraph long they might not be edited. While you're on that page check if the sites are in the correct category, if they aren't it's another sign of bad or non-existent editing. Check out the submission guidelines and pricing, do they seem to be focused on creating a quality resource or on making a quick buck?
Yeah I said I think you do. I think you went ott in your first reply to me so I'm just giving as good as I get. With regards to the what the OP said it doesn't matter what the difference is I didn't know why you got so mad about it as if I was trying to burn you or something. But if you really want to get into it the OP's question doesn't even make sense anyway if you read it properly. Like syted pointed out. It isn't really a specific question so this whole conversation could be very broad anyway. Anyway I was just giving a bit of advice to the OP I wasn't looking to get a red face lol. Nevermind.
That is quite a broad question, kinda like asking what's the difference between living in Moscow, New York, some little town too small to be on the map, some town with 40,000 people and a ghost town. People do live in all of those places but like directories each one offers something different. With directories, like the cities I mention, there is no one "thing" that makes one different from another. Excepting of course those folks who take a free script, free category dump and scrape DMOZ and think they've actually created something of value. Generally speaking the differences in directories are free or paid, general or niche and what language(s) they are presented in. From there it gets into such things as quality of listings, adherence to category structure, ease of use, ease of submission, appearance and just about all of the things you would normally look at when evaluating a website. If you explained why you asked the question, we might be able to give you a more specific answer.
Straight and clear answer, thanks .. Why I'm asked ? Because I just developed this site may be your answer will be added into there to make dir site more specific
I suspected that was why you asked the question. :wink: You'll definitely have to add some sort of categorization to make the site useful for visitors. Using a blog platform would seem to give you the opportunity to provide more information about each of the directories as well as multiple links. Is that part of your future plans?
FOCUS General Directory vs Blog Directory VS Software Directory vs Local Directory... (etc) Business Model Charge for Review Paid Inclusion - (numerous examples) Reciprocal Link Required Free Entry Many of these have a mix of revenue streams... banner sales, adsense, page sponsorships. Site Editing Some directories auto accept whatever is entered by the person submitting. Others have a submission process that is moderated by owners or editors and the amount of actual editing varies from zero (click-thru) to serious editing following a site review. Who are the editors Owners only Paid staff Volunteers The user or site owner Any combination of the above Taxonomy / Ontology How is the "tree" (ie - the hierarchy) set up and what are the categories named? Some are going to be the same from one to another... the US for example has 50 states and these states have a finite number of cities. [Do they have a LOT of cities or concentrate on the big ones?] Even then one directory could break it down... Statename -> Countyname-> Cityname -> (then subcats for Business, Recreations, Sports, Education, etc....)and another might do it Statename -> Cityname -> (then subcats for Business, Recreations, Sports, Education, etc....) and put counties at a parallel level instead of inline. Even directories that have roughly similar hierarchies will differ in appearance if one subcats after a handfull of entries and another does it after 30 or 40. Content / Quality Directories could have exactly the same hierarchy might have totally different items in those categories. * One might have all the good sites you'd hope to see there * One might have a lot of outdated ones * one might have anything that was submitted and never turn down ANYthing. * One might have higher standards and not take garrbage (obvious MFAs, copied content, scraped blogs) * One directory could be a mirror of another (think Dmoz clone) and have nothing you couldn't find on a zillion other sites) This dovetails with the question of who edits the directory. Some directories include only sites submitted... others have editors scavenging the web for sites to add as well as sites submitted. You'll have gaps in a lot of categories if you rely on submissions only. Conclusion Those are the biggest ways one directory differs from another. Basically the larger and more unique the database and the descriptions, the better. That said, quality tends to trump quantity. Having misdescribed sites, misplaced sites, dead sites, or useless sites doesn't do much for anyone. ADDED: Basically I didnt address PR or a lotta other things Bruce (aka: Swedal) covered... he covered those nicely, so this sorta piggybacks on his comments.
Other great side view, this make me more confuse to devel my site LOL , Anyway thanks for all, make me more understand about directory ( before this i'm zero on it )