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Can I rank better than my competitor given that he have backlinks only from directories ?

by Jubaii
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Given that my best competitor have 104 backlinks only from directories mostly with PA=1 is it easy to rank better than him with some few quality backlinks ?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by Jubaii View Post

    Given that my best competitor have 104 backlinks only from directories mostly with PA=1 is it easy to rank better than him with some few quality backlinks ?
    PA has nothing to do with rankings or the quality of those links.

    Directory links are not necessarily bad. It depends entirely on the directories used.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jubaii
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      PA has nothing to do with rankings or the quality of those links.

      Directory links are not necessarily bad. It depends entirely on the directories used.
      So how can you tell if a directory is bad or good given that its page authority is 1 ?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by Jubaii View Post

        So how can you tell if a directory is bad or good given that its page authority is 1 ?
        Again, Page Authority as rated by Moz does not matter.

        Is the directory relevant? Is it paid or free? Is it moderated or is there just a ton of junk in the directory?

        That is what I would be looking at.
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        • Profile picture of the author Jubaii
          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          Again, Page Authority as rated by Moz does not matter.

          Is the directory relevant? Is it paid or free? Is it moderated or is there just a ton of junk in the directory?

          That is what I would be looking at.
          I'm ready to give you the links if you want, do you think you can help ?
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
            Originally Posted by Jubaii View Post

            I'm ready to give you the links if you want, do you think you can help ?
            Sorry, but I am not about to spend the time evaluating 104 directories for free.
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            • Profile picture of the author Jubaii
              Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

              Sorry, but I am not about to spend the time evaluating 104 directories for free.
              Who said it's for free ?
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              • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
                Originally Posted by Jubaii View Post

                Who said it's for free ?
                Sorry. I should not have assumed that.

                For one off jobs like this I charge $150 an hour for my time. To evaluate that many directories would probably take a good 3-4 hours.
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          • Profile picture of the author TotalWebsiteControl
            Originally Posted by Jubaii View Post

            I'm ready to give you the links if you want, do you think you can help ?
            sorry to say but most directories that are free is usually just spammed to death with junk and have no link value. Paid directories on the other hand could prove most useful.
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  • Profile picture of the author st0nec0ld
    Originally Posted by Jubaii View Post

    Given that my best competitor have 104 backlinks only from directories mostly with PA=1 is it easy to rank better than him with some few quality backlinks ?
    I've turned down submitting to directories for a long time now.
    I don't think that it is still an effective link building strategy.
    As for your questions, yes, you are most likely to outrank your competitor if and only if you aim for building links based on quality and relevancy.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by Shahidul Islam Rakib View Post

      Yes, I think you can beat your competitor very easily.
      That's something you can't know. There's just not enough information here.

      OP, did you try one of the other backlink checkers such as Ahrefs or Majestic? I would not trust their numbers blindly, but it's easy to see competitor's backlinks that those services see as being relatively strong.
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      Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
      Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

      What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author serman46
    today directory submission is not important only content king our on page optimization and off page optimization according Google .
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by serman46 View Post

      today directory submission is not important only content king our on page optimization and off page optimization according Google .
      Yeah, except for the part that google never said any of that.
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  • Profile picture of the author cgkoste
    Directories are great! (If they are done correctly and optimized) I've been able to take over 6 of the 10 spots on Google with directory listings. The key is not just blasting stuff to a bunch of directories, but to actually take the time to optimize each listing completely which takes time.

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