6 Truths About How Useful Are Directory Submissions
Its been debated widely in many webmaster forums now and even people started to questioning do directory submissions still hold any value? There has been a lot of misunderstanding on the whole idea, so I decided to throw some light on the whole issue to give better insight for webmasters.
1. Search engines started to give less or no value to links found in general directories recently, this is due to the fact that there has been huge amount of spam in these directories that accepts any links from users.
2. Although search engines stopped to give some value to the links found in general directories, but still directories that are niche oriented and accepts links only from certain niche based sites still holds some value.
3. Popular directories like yahoo directories and DMOZ still play a vital role in ranking your site in search engines, although its hard to get in to DMOZ directory now, but still you can pay for yahoo directory inclusion per year and its worth every penny as you start to see real boosting in your rankings with your site still present in yahoo directory.
4. Blog directories most don’t pass link juice but they are still worth submitting as they will help you to get some traffic through the huge mass of users of these directories.
5. Also some high pagerank directories which are on for a while now and which has gained trust rank of Google and other search engines still hold some value to your site provided they are listed.
6. When you pay for high pagerank directory do make sure how long the directory has been up and running and how much does a link from the particular directory really worth for you when its comes to your rankings. There are many web directories that are run by night, so you don’t really want to waste your money on those kinds of directories. Its always better to do a little research about a directory when are paying for your inclusion.
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