Directories - Are they Worth the Time???

by bigcat1967

Posted: 15 years ago 23 replies

I had someone tell me the other day that directories are back in (at least for backlinking). However, I disagreed with her. Have you guys been hearing from Google anything about directories and if there is a change of attitude of placing one way links there?

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App Developers 15 years ago

I haven't heard anything about it at all however recently my main competitors have all purchased huge amounts of directory links. And score very very well, #1 for the keywords! I noticed this trend less than a month ago......I also know they have hired a huge SEO firm so I am guessing they have heard something about it!
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jhnbrwn 15 years ago

Directories are still one of the most widely used methods of back linking. although you need to be patient for its results but it is effective and also there is no limit of its submission.
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quintonboyer 15 years ago

I have tried submitting to several directories with SubmitEaze, and I didn't see results even after 3 months.
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Adam Roy 15 years ago

I personally can vouch from experience, that I have not personally seen any significant increase in rankings after submitting sites to directories.

I sell backlink guides and website development/optimization guides and never really mention using directories as a source of backlinks.

I used to submit to directories but have since realized that it's a waste of time for me, for the most part.

There's a good possibility you might get some traffic from the directories themselves though.
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DIGITALCHAMELEON 15 years ago

Paid directories are worthy but for the free i don't mind.
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faceblogger 15 years ago

They are not worth your time if you do it manually. Just automate it with some tools.
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1234nasir 15 years ago

I hv submit manually in more than 100 dofollow high pr directories with reciprocal link submissions. The results came positive for me.
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- tessa 15 years ago
  
  Directories are still in the business to improve your quantity of backlinks. I guess still Search Engine bots will frequently crawl those type of sites to index latest updates.
  
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mithil 15 years ago

Directories are good source of acquiring back links towards the website.
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jazbo 15 years ago

Submit them, then make sure you link to the URLs once authorised and also ping them to get the bots sniffing. Just submitting is not enough to get most links found in a directory, especially one with about a million buried sub-cats.
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jhonsmith74 15 years ago

i didn't hear anything like that but its really worthy have directory links.
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diyakapoor 15 years ago

Directory links always have a value. It is not easy to get one way links from free directories because they don't provide approvals. But if you get approvals they have a value. Google actually consider the directory links.
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jonnyhardbaked 15 years ago

Directory submission is still part of link building campaign. So for me it is still has an importance in SEO.
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CikaPero 15 years ago

I think google adores directories.

For instance yahoo web directory is very popular with google (but it costs too).

DMOZ is great too, but it is very hard to get into it.
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olibray 15 years ago

Directories are terrible unless you are talknig about high PR DMOZ ect. I paid $600 to have my site submitted to 5000 directories. Not ONE link was indexed by google!
Wow! I know the links are there, I have a report with the URLS and have checked them, but google just ignored them.
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- sonic74 15 years ago
  
  I had great success with directory links in the past...
  
  but now I think that quality of the directories is matter !
  
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jacked 15 years ago

Directories don't do much besides get your site indexed.
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johnhoefer 15 years ago

I outsource mine to wlmarketing.com. I always recommend them. If you do them manually yourself, they are not worth it. If you spend $50 and have someone else do it, its definitely worth it. No reason not to.
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seye 15 years ago

i get links from places that accept them,for directory you need to vary your urls seriously and ping them before you can see any effect
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penpal6 15 years ago

Yes, they are......You can get a PR6-8 backlink
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alexacc 15 years ago

It is improtant to prepare good article for the best result. Good directory with bad article = no result.
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jack jastin 15 years ago

In my opinion, When your website is very new and you need to optimize your web page in Google, Directories would be a very worth full technique in that regard.
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socialbookmark 15 years ago

Some directories are still useful and submitting links to them worth. But if some people say directory submission is not good, they compare it with previous years. About 3-4 years ago, directories were one of the best resources for making backlinks for websites but nowadays they are not working as before.
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