When you submit your site to directories do you use the same description every time or do you try to write a new one each time? Which one is better to do? Thanks.
It is better to use a unique description every single time. That is kind of unrealistic though. I will typically write a unique description when I am submitting to a directory which is pay for review. With free directories I will change up the description every 50 or so submissions.
Oh okay, I have been doing different ones each time. I don't save the description so I just try to write it off of the top of my head and it normally comes out slightly different for each submission.
Listen guys I have been using same description (which were keywords, I mean keywords but in sentence did you got me). That was the game point and you know it was really working dam and help you in SEO. And only using same Title and description you can go high in Google's pages. Goodluck
I write a new description every time. But then I rarely submit to directories as there's very few I either want to be listed in or can afford to be listed in.
Even as a directory owner, it wasn't immediately evident to me why unique descriptions are so important. Most directories offer each listing a "details page"; the sole content on that page is your submission. You submissions will lose effectiveness over time once the search engines identify all of those pages as duplicate content. I do my submissions by hand and only submit to directories that I would consider a quality site. I use different descriptions each time I work on submissions. That means a description is used around 1-10 times. Using the same link/title text is foolish as it limits your keyword promotion to that single phrase. It's one of the few times that a site owner has any input into how another site links to them - why waste that opportunity? For the directories that require it, I use the site title. For the others, I use whatever keyword phrase I am trying to get some action on.
I use the meta description for each page I submit. I use the same one every time. I put a lot of thought into getting the meta descriptions for each page right the first time. So I see no reason why I should not use that description for every directory submission. It's not going to get penalized for "duplicate content".
The duplicate penalty won't hurt your site Jim, it will hit all of the somedirectory.com/details/jims-site.html pages that display your site's details which diminishes the SEO effectiveness of those pages. At least, that's my understanding of how it works. Do you know something different?
If you are talking about free directories, I will go for 10 to 25 descriptions for 1000 directory submissions. Unique descriptions for submitting to pay for review directories.