I have my own opinion but was curious what everybody thinks about directory submissions compared to forum signatures. It seems to me that spending the time hunting for directories to submit your site too would be better spent leaving comments on a handful of high PR forums on a regular basis. This way you get familiar with the people and the forum environment and get quality back links. You might not make be able to get hundreds of back links overnight, but the quality links you'll get from high PR sites are a lot more valuable. Please give me some feedback on your thoughts about my strategy. Thanks
Don't you think that this is kind of stupid to spend all that time sighing in and then post for an hour just to get 1 backlink? What if you have to made 50 posts before they let you to have signature? or What if forum has low PR and lousy traffic? or What if signature is set to no-follow? How many forums you have to join to get PR of 1? Lets guess: 10, 20? How many hours it will take for you to get to that point? Lets guess: 10, 20? And now how long it will take you to submit to 20 directories? I let you to do the math and then tell us what is better. fastreplies
SEO should be mixed to look natural. Directory submissions should be part of any link building strategy. Thanks Brian
I'm sure you are Well, put down your sandwich, get into your car and take a drive to the nearest watch-shop Buy stop watch, get back in your car and go back to your home. Turn on your computer. Try to submit your site to directory and then sign up to any forum and make post to get signature. Notice how long it take for you to do each action. After you done, start up your new stop watch and clock how long it will take you to finish your sandwich. fastreplies
Brian1970 gives good advice. Do some of both...and more (blog posting, social networking, press releases, etc.). I like niche directories because some of them actually get some user traffic (as opposed to webmaster traffic). Some of those links also convert into a natural link where a user of the directory sees my site in the directory and then links to it from their own site. I'd post in forums even if the signature is nofollow simply because of the referral traffic and natural links that result. Bottom line, it's all marketing. You need to get the word out about your site as many ways as possible. If people like it the marketing effort will turn into natural links and you'll have a successful site. Web directories, forums, blogs, social networking, etc. should all be part of your mix.
yes, we need to mix all kinds of linkbuilding not solely focus on directory submission or signature link. We will need to do a bunch of work to get google give you value.
IMO, directory submission is for backlink building, as for generating tracffic, forum is a better way
I agree with everybody, do both and do it naturally rather than bulk posting because Google dont like a quick spike of backlinks in a short time.
And how do you know what Google is like or dislike? Do you have any evidence to support your statement? Let me guess. Some idiot in some forum said so, right? fastreplies
I think it's depend on how visible your website URL. I personally prefer directory submission since I don't like spend hours to post something on the forum.