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Rss and Blog Directories Mixed Messages

by cipha
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I have searched for info on RSS and Blog directories and have gotten mixed messages so I am trying to clear some things up. I have heard that submitting to them used to be useful for SEO purposes but no longer holds any weight. Is this true?

Will it hurt your site more than help it, or does it depends on which directories you submit to? Are they all equal?

Also is it bad to submit to too many of these in one day?

Overall what is good about submitting to RSS and Blog directories if anything at all? I just really would like to know before spending time manually submitting to these and find out it is not worth it.

Thanks for your help
#blog #directories #messages #mixed #rss #rss directories
  • Profile picture of the author LloydMS
    Backlinks are useful, nothing has changed about that. The key is making sure those backlinks are natural, or at least appear to be natural.

    By natural, I'm talking about things like getting links from different types of sources, using a mixture of anchor text (not just your keyword, but different variations), a natural rate of links (a new site isn't likely to get 100 links a day), etc.

    If you're submitting manually, and making sure you use a variety of anchor text, from different sources, it should be better than doing nothing. Hard to say how helpful it will be as it still depends upon a lot of factors.

    There is obviously lots more involved.
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  • Profile picture of the author cipha
    So it can't hurt your site even if the directory has low pr?
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    • Profile picture of the author LloydMS
      Of course it can hurt your site. Any type of link building carries a possibility of hurting your site. You have to way the risk and reward. If you're out manually building links using diversified anchor text on decent sites (PR1+) the risk is minimal. The reward depends upon what you're trying to rank - it might be enough to get you to #1 on Google. It might not do anything whatsoever. That all depends upon competition and also assumes you've done everything possible using on-page techniques.

      Sorry I'm not giving you a yes/no answer but that's really not how SEO works.
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