submitting to web directories is useless job?! |
How important are directories?!
For many of people web directories seem to be a master key for their own websites success. They submit to almost everything that even looks like web directory, thinking of... thank God for this easy way to catch good PR... as much directories I submit, better PR I have... higher PR directory, even better... etc...
So they submit hundreds of directories, but their PR was still zero. It doesn't move from the spot at all, even after months and months of hard submitting.
What's the problem?!
Honestly, it could be a lot of problems in relation between website and good PR, but we are talking about web directories now. What could be wrong?! You submit to so many of web directories, even a good one directories, with high (5, 6 or 7) PR, and nothing?!
The problem is in relation between web directory and Google. They are simply, worthless!!! So are the backlinks from them. You may have a millions of that kind backlinks and still have PR zero, even if they have really high Page Rank...
How could it be?
If you do a little research about web directories, you will find out soon why is it so. You will find tons of generally web directories, those kind of websites who are not explicitly web directories, and they have very mixed content. Just a little of SEO things, a little of web design, some free templates... little of this - little of that... which means, they are generally-content websites. Most of them are junk or spam, in best cases just another website with a lot of Adsense. Certainly, some of them are really good websites, with trusty and valuable content on their pages, so they earned 5, 6 or 7, some of them even 8 PR, but they are still generlly-content... and also, by the way web directories who offers bacllinks to you, mostly conditioned with reciprocal links. So... they are practically chasing after their own backlinks, which is in some cases hundreds of thousands of them, because people gladly submitting websites, expecting good valuable backlinks.
The pages that contains submitted links (pages with categories where have you done your submission) are not actually indexed by Google spider on purpose of hiding them, because they actually don't need them to be indexed. All they need are backlinks that you have provide by putting reciprocal links into your index page.
Watching from other view... whole game is about their backlinks, not yours!
How does it looks like to Google?
There comes one guy offering something for nothing, and than comes another guy offering nothing for something... Something to nothing... Nothing to something... When you put all together it gives one big nothing. Nothing!!! So, nothing could be your PR, unless you don't change your strategy.
Thinking that way, my recommendation will be to avoid submitting to generally web directories, especially those you need to pay for. It's just throwing money away. Submit only to those directories which you're absolutely sure about value of their links. It's still a few of them, even if they are mostly worthless, it will always be some exceptions like DMOZ or Yahoo!. They will probably provide valuable backlinks to you, so Google will be happy about it... or maybe not, who knows?! I mean, there isn't any guaranties for success just because you are submitted to a directories.
Just remember great Blue Find web directory couple years ago. It was respectable and trusted web directory with very high PR... I think it was 8 PR, really valuable link... and than was banned by Google because of manipulation and selling high Page Rank to directories. Now they are changed to Webdirectory7, about year ago, but without any use. Their PR is still zero. |
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how to choose valuable web directory |
A few good methodes:
*Eliminate those generally-content web directory and choose only specific or specialized web directories, related with your content, to submit in. It will provide more valuable backlinks to your website then hundred others.
*Always check out who is submitted in web directory already, and their link value. You don't need links from bad neighborhood! It's easy to check them by a simple Google method, if just type in search bar "link:www.some-directory.com" and you will get full list of linked websites to them. Also could be at great help PaRa Meter freeware software or McAfee SiteAdvisor for FireFox or for IE which are integrated with your browser and shows information about suspicious website immediately.
*Check out are they long time trusted and reputable domain, or it's new domain. Many of directories are made only for selling their worthless links promising miracles.
*Good choice would be submitting to some official web directory that presents an department of the government or some international web project.
*If they talk a lot only about boosting your SE optimization, so can you reach very high Page Rank in just a few weeks... They are suspicious and couldn't be trusted. There isn't website who boosted that high PR in such a short time without being suspicious.
*No matter which web directory you choose to submit in, always try to contact them first. If they didn't answer back to you in a few days, they can't be trusted.
Don't deal with them, it must be something wrong!!! |
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useful tip |
| This one could help! |
Building more valuable backlinks for your website we recommande, try to use more
human-to-homan methods. You'd better use a lot more telephone and other personal contact techniques, than just a simple submission of website.
Call personally owners of the good web directories or worthy websites. Try to contact personally a respectable specialist or a writer of reputable magazine or newsletter, maybe write to some well known Google experts and ask them nicely to link back to your website. Of course, you need to show them envious level of your knowledge, offering some kind of services or cooperation as a pay back.
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