Comments on: Link Building with Directory Submissions

By: Saurav

Saurav — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:20:22 +0000

Erm that’s interested not my full comment got posted there –

@Navin – traffic wise I don’t mind having no follow links, some SEOs have said in the past that no follow links have some power but not much, so I am not counting it out at all but for me I rather spend time on do follow links than no follow 🙂

By: Saurav

Saurav — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:17:41 +0000

@Julie sorry but you can see my website through my twitter profile :op

By: Navin

Navin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:36:25 +0000

@ Saurav Even I dont mind a no-follow link on a high traffic website. Say, if you genuinely comment on a high traffic website and leave your website link, the real people would want to know who you are and would want to check out your website…

This may not get you PageRank but may get some traffic, branding and a chance to grow your network, what say?

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:22:22 +0000

In reply to Saurav Rimal.

I don’t mind a nice no-follow link when it’s on a high-traffic site actually! Also this post is part of a beginner’s guide series, so its purpose is more to educate non-professional-SEO types about the fundamentals.

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:19:23 +0000

In reply to Perennial Gardens.

I agree that the value from many directories may not be as high as it used to be, nor as high as that of a really nice authority site, but I do think that having a few select directory listings is a good way to both have a natural-looking link profile AND get some traffic. Even though I rarely use directories, some people still do.

By: Saurav Rimal

Saurav Rimal — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:07:01 +0000

Interesting post Julie, I agree directory submission still has some link power but more SEOs are looking to move forward from directory submissions.

Blog posts, link bait ideas, interview ideas, social media channels can provide much more powerful links than directories. I would rather spend my time getting more powerful links than directory submission so I would probably ask someone else to do the submissions for me.

But any link is a good link (unless its from an irrelevant site or a no follow link), I think we all know that ;op
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By: searchlackey

searchlackey — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:37:28 +0000

I am also somewhere in the middle with directory submissions. It can hurt your visibility but may not increase your ranking much. Trial and error.

By: Perennial Gardens

Perennial Gardens — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:59:43 +0000

You should probably mention some of the negative side effects of submitting to directories: Google assigns a value to every website, and a link from that website contains that value. Directories have very low value to Google, and therefore a link from them also has very low value.

By: Jennifer @ vergent t1 service

Jennifer @ vergent t1 service — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:38:47 +0000

I have read that Google is now discounting paid link directories, although they still like BOTW and Business.com. Have you heard the same thing, or no? I personally have been trying to get sites into dmoz.org for years, and there never seems to be a response. Now that Google owns it, it seems like the holy grail of directories, though. Has anyone ever had any success actually getting in?