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Old October 11th, 2007, 02:27 PM
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It all depends on the quality of the directory whether its free or not. There are lot of free quality directories so why would you pay if you can have it free....
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We have to remember that the original intent of directories was to provide traffic from web users looking for sites within each direcory. TODAY... the basic reason to be in a directory is to get a backlink... Traffic is a minor consideration (almost no directories yield any traffic).

Bottomline: Google, and possibly other search engines, will continue to deeply discount directory backlinks... Which they should.
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Bottomline: Google, and possibly other search engines, will continue to deeply discount directory backlinks... Which they should.


While I agree in principle the same can be said for any list of links that you attempt to get you domain listed in - that includes dot.gov & dot.edu domains.

In your own world... you seriously don't acquire links for your glossary because you desire more glossary traffic... you desirable the link juice so you can pass that around to your commercial pages...

A big long list of links from any domain (gov, edu or otherwise) isn't overly useful to Google and they "will also" continue to deeply discount backlinks from these sources... Which they should... as well.

Seriously pages of links to other sources on any domain isn't useful to Google... knowing this... is how you create advantage in Google.
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Although it takes time for the approval of the site to be listed on free directories, I would still choose them because they are more practical to use and yet effective in increasing backlinks and traffic.
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I prefer to be listed on free directories it was a high assurance to be listed and without hassle.
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i think, first one should try to work with some quality free dir.
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seldom that i submit to paid directories because there are free directories but with high quality and can really give me the equal benefits.
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Open Directory Project maybe, as a start? I use it when I search for something specific, therefor having in mind I'm one of the millions internet users.. I think others are doing the same.

That's traffic!
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Let's just hope that the free directories will continue to have the resources to maintain their sites. Otherwise, they serve no value at all in the long term.
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^ Well I'm pretty sure there are people who willingly pay to get their sites featured.
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