Directory Submission Still Effective?

Hi,

I am going to build some links for my websites. Is directory submission still effective for SERPs and google pr? ( i read some news that it isnt effective anyway few months back).

Any experts here care to share their experiences and advices?

Thanks

Blanket submissions - no.

Targeted directory submissions - sometimes.

all dir subs? not worth the time except in our exp for 3...

DMOZ - which loses juice every quarter...

Yahoo dir - slight boost but not what it used to be either...

business.com - okay still but only for US based biz as we've found.

ALL else is crap. total waste of time and effort as they have no backlink juice to pass your site....think about it. Any dir that accepts auto subs, accepts ALL auto subs...hence search engines give them no juice at all....so all that time and effort and work...leads to nada!

INSTEAD, write top notch - and I mean TOP NOTCH content....and you'll get the link requests from other sites...one way INCOMING links that will raise your serps....

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Jim

PS one more thought, sometimes in some very limited channels, there are dirs that can count...ie a listing of all the Nebraska Certified Professional Accountants, who, as a part of their state licencing DO get a listing therein....Google likes those kind of 'authoritative/trust' links....among others too, 'specially from .edus too!

thanks for your suggestion

But having your site listed in any site for that matter is a way of getting an additional link, In directories it is more organized.

Won't it help completely ?

There are a lot more then three directories that do pass link juice and traffic. I'm sorry that your opinion makes you believe otherwise, but I can understand. Sifting through many of the poor directories to find the good ones is a time consuming process which many wont bother with.

DMOZ, yahoo, google - sure.

Don't waste your time in doing directory submission.

Read this thread for a recent discussion on the value of directories

http://forums.seochat.com/link-popularity-43/to-how-many-directories-a-day-i-can-submit-my-272907.html

Yes. But depends where you are submitting. Free directory submission sites (with few exceptions like dmoz, Librarian's Internet Index etc) are useless because of tons of spamming and high submission rate. Paid directories have limited submission, better quality control and no scope of spamming. I know many sites which rank for highly competitive keywords and have majority of links from directories (most of them are paid however).

I also believe directory submissions are worth less but one of my client website from Ireland ask for approved free directories from Ireland I have told him there is no seo value but he doesn't understanding then I decided we do some directories submissions for that we just started working on that one of our link builder did 100 free approved submissions from directories some pages has bee cache on Google and I find that targeted keywords are top 10 in Google.ie I know that that keyword is not very high competitive keywords but before approved we are not where any where with this keywords and we are........
I am not claiming directory submissions work great but if we get links from with our relevant category and using our less competitive keywords for back links and that link pages index on google than it may be change you will be rank well on less competitive keywords but for very short period of time becasue after one cache that page will be move on supplemental index and you may not get link juice from that pages for maintaining on your ranking your really need some links.......

So it is good thing you always work for link not for directory submissions.........

Who uses directories? Almost no one. They are simply too slow and take too much effort to manage. I get very little actual traffic from directories even DMOZ and Yahoo.

And if you place a bunch of links in low quality directories you leave a footprint that if crawled says that you are a low quality site. This can be overcome if your ratio of good links to bad is high but otherwise you are mostly wasting your time.

Have you ever used a directory to find anything?

I would give one exception to some of the Blog Directories... a very few where I actually do get real traffic coming to my sites.

SEO experts said that links from this sites are being devalued... so i think it better not use this in linkbuilding...

choosing among all these directories is a very difficult task.
There are directories that can do a little good to your site relevant to the few minutes it takes for someone to submit to them .

Submitting to hundrends of d. or paying someone to do it will get you nothing.

Find a list of quality directories (20 or 30 tops) and submit to them from time to time. It will get your website started but it will not bring any decent traffic nor it will make your website famous.