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Link Directory Submission - Does it Work?

by Mohsin Rasool
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Hi Warriors,

What you say?
Does directory submission work?
Have you tried it?

If yes, how were the results?

If somebody manually submits his site to say 500 directories with PR1 to PR4...
what kind of restuls one can expect?

Why i am asking this! Well i used to think it is waste of time, but recently i have got
a guy in my team who raves about it all day long, he has even shown me some mixxed
results... so now i am thinking maybe Directory Submission is not that dead...so i look
forward to know your views...

It could be great link building source if it brings the results like indexed links with good
impact on rankings...

Thank you,
Mohsin
#directory #link #submission #work
  • Profile picture of the author Mohsin Rasool
    Thank you for your input. So you have used this effectvly to get backlinks for SEO purposes? (Yeah i too do not expect direct traffic from this method.)

    Thanks again for sharing results from your experince.
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  • Profile picture of the author rjowais2
    Hey Mohsin,
    Link Directory Submissions have lost their value overtime. Its best not to get links from spammy link directories and only go for valuable links.
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  • Profile picture of the author cagliostro
    It is dead and buried.
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  • Profile picture of the author freak46
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    • Profile picture of the author tofino
      It still works. Proof?

      Well with one older website I built backlinks with a phrase that was no where on my website. I used the phrase for the title in various directory submissions. The phrase is not searched much but it was just a test.

      My site has continued to rank for that phrase even after two years.

      So I'd say it would help for some long tail search but I would not spend to much money on it.

      Also those bulk submission services usually go to directories where the links are never approved. I'd ask what the "approval rate" guarantee is with any service.
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  • Profile picture of the author epathj
    it takes long time to be indexed or even not be indexed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Targeted Traffic
    Yes it still does work but what you should do is submit manually to a handful of good web directories that have a real human reviewing each submission. There aren’t that many of them out there and links from those directories still count and produce trust in the eyes of Google.

    Those links won’t pass any page rank for the most part but Google will assign a trust factor to your site if it’s listed in quality directories.

    What are some of the good directories?:

    BOTW.org
    DMOZ.org
    Yahoo Directory
    Business.com

    Always make sure that the category you are submitting to is indexed in Google. Just grab the url and paste it into search to see if Google indexed it. If yes, then obviously Google crawls that page and it would be beneficial to have your site listed there too.

    Manual directory submission to quality web directories works well and you should do that for your sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author chiragparnami
    Hello Mate ,

    Directory Submission is Really a Powerful techniques To Get Onway links ... We provide Directory Submission Service ..
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  • Profile picture of the author Jack Chase
    I imagine it still counts as a link, but the value of it (in my experience) is close to zero. I have never seen improvements in my site rankings that I can attribute to link directories. It's also quite time consuming; much easier to blast out loads of links with AMR or use something like BMR or LinxBoss to get higher value links, I think.

    That said I have not got any links in Yahoo or DMOZ, I've heard that these are the only ones that have any effect.
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  • Profile picture of the author xxxJamesxxx
    I'm not voting because I've NEVER done it before but from what I've heard it's not worth the time doing it.

    James
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeleonard
    Directory Submission is best way to geting backlinks for any sites .
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  • Profile picture of the author transcriptionservices
    hi,
    Directory helps in the promotion of our website. Our website will get more exposure if we do more and more directory submission.
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    • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
      I submitted links to boingboing.net but their navigation sucks! How do I find my submissions to ping them? Do they have to be approved also?

      Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Baker
    I vote for Yes because it still works on my SEO link building.
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  • Profile picture of the author Juvv2096
    What sort of directory? thats leaving a big open space that question I think.

    For me article directory submission has gotten around 5 websites on page one, for god knows how many keyword terms, maybe 30+ ?

    I think business listing directories are useless, but if you have some big ones in your areas they can be handy as they show up for local search terms.
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  • Profile picture of the author renukoot
    I also think it works. I do manually Submission myself & had got good results.

    I choose them with care & do the work myself & when I get status of my submission, I also ping them & check some days later at google if they are indexed. Till now I get the possitive results.
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