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Hello guys. I pretty new in SEO, so I have some questions I want to ask and I thought this is a good place.
As I know, some people find directory submission an old, unnecessary technique. First of all I don't care about PR, I care about the search engine result position for certain keywords. So, does it really help to increase my result position if I submit the site in some web directories, using my keyword as anchor text ?
Waiting for your answers.
//sorry for my bad English Submit your sites with your keywords as your anchor text in well known high page-rank and alexa rank directories. You are bound to get both traffic and page rank juice out of it. Best of luck. Yes, use your keyword as the title of your site. Usually the link in directories is in the title of the site itself. There are only some quality directories and i suggest you to only submit your website to these quality web directories. If you want to submit your website to all directories, it takes some months and in my opinion, it doesn't worth. As i said, only submit it to quality directories and of course it can help you according to the quality of directories which approved your link. submitting your sites in good pr directories will help you to get rank in serp otherwise don't waste your time Good luck with submitting keywords as the title to quality directories. Maybe if you take the paid option they MAY let it through. Generally you will be rejected though. Use the keywords in the description - Google isn't as dumb as some people would let you believe. Quote: Originally Posted by Acrono Hello guys. I pretty new in SEO, so I have some questions I want to ask and I thought this is a good place.
As I know, some people find directory submission an old, unnecessary technique. First of all I don't care about PR, I care about the search engine result position for certain keywords. So, does it really help to increase my result position if I submit the site in some web directories, using my keyword as anchor text ?
Waiting for your answers.
//sorry for my bad English Hi,
As you might have known that it is impossible for you to setup the right anchor text when you submit your sites or pages on directories, directory submission would have little direct benefit on your SERP. Of course, directory submission would help your SEO efforts in increasing link popularity.
all the best, Hmm not really. I guess keywords like "car tuning" "tuning news" "tuning pictures" are not that bad, and I might get some approvals. choose keywords that are directly involved in your type of business or site. THis allows google to rank you faster. A couple of excellent examples of what not to do. These two were submitted to a directory in the last hour as Titles:
Watch Live, Stream Live, Events, Movies, Sports, tv, Media Market place
Gaur city +91-9953734750,Gaur City Noida Extension,gaur city 2
and for some reason they think they will be accepted!!! Directory submissions is an old SEO technique but still very useful. While doing submission you can use key phrases as your title. this helps in improving search engine rankings. Directory submissions helps to increase search engine position, but don't depend upon just one technique, use technique like bookmarking, networking and article submission also. I just make backlink analysis for my top competitors in Google, observe their directory links indexed in yahoo and submit to those directories only. Few of them are even paid directories too. Quote: Originally Posted by sudipdasin Submit your sites with your keywords as your anchor text in well known high page-rank and alexa rank directories. You are bound to get both traffic and page rank juice out of it. Best of luck. I've manually submitted to hundreds upon hundreds of directories. The only ones that provide any sort of click-through traffic at all are the very popular ones, and that's only 1 or 2 clicks a month.
With that being said, your SERP will benefit from keyword anchored links. Try and be selective about which directories you submit to, as massive submitting can potentially be counter-productive. Take it slow and try to only submit to well-aged directories. There's a site called Directory Critic that allows you to view and sort directories by PR, Age, Rank, etc. Depends on the directories you are submitting. As they say quality directories are those with high PR usually. And also as long as the directories are not doing some underground/unnessary stuff it will be fine. You can tell directories doing that from the directory structure itself. Quote: Originally Posted by sachihawaii I've manually submitted to hundreds upon hundreds of directories. The only ones that provide any sort of click-through traffic at all are the very popular ones, and that's only 1 or 2 clicks a month This is along the lines of what I was wondering...
- Do you (or members in general) submit to directories for 'click traffic?'
- Or do you do it to be saddled up with a respected site?
I'm looking more for the latter... Quote: Originally Posted by seobrother Directory submission is one of the basic method in SEO. You are right, use keywords as a title.
More SEOffal. Once again - keywords in titles submitted to quality directories will be, at best, changed, at worst deleted. DMOZ is of course a great directory to be listed in. DMOZ coupled with Yahoo, Business, BOTW can help your domain build authority fast. Not just any little blog will get listed in those directories and SE's know this for the most part.
Other than that, industries like Architecture + Building Supplies have some outstanding industry related directories that are very old and full of value. My point? Be strategic and dial down relevancy. The title should describe the business and not only the keyword, and give a good description, then only your directory submission efforts will get good results. I am not pretty sure..but heard somewhere..that dir submissions are not worth as much as they were in yester days..I myself honeslty prefer only DMOZ dirctories..nothing else
As I know, some people find directory submission an old, unnecessary technique. First of all I don't care about PR, I care about the search engine result position for certain keywords. So, does it really help to increase my result position if I submit the site in some web directories, using my keyword as anchor text ?
Waiting for your answers.
//sorry for my bad English Submit your sites with your keywords as your anchor text in well known high page-rank and alexa rank directories. You are bound to get both traffic and page rank juice out of it. Best of luck. Yes, use your keyword as the title of your site. Usually the link in directories is in the title of the site itself. There are only some quality directories and i suggest you to only submit your website to these quality web directories. If you want to submit your website to all directories, it takes some months and in my opinion, it doesn't worth. As i said, only submit it to quality directories and of course it can help you according to the quality of directories which approved your link. submitting your sites in good pr directories will help you to get rank in serp otherwise don't waste your time Good luck with submitting keywords as the title to quality directories. Maybe if you take the paid option they MAY let it through. Generally you will be rejected though. Use the keywords in the description - Google isn't as dumb as some people would let you believe. Quote: Originally Posted by Acrono Hello guys. I pretty new in SEO, so I have some questions I want to ask and I thought this is a good place.
As I know, some people find directory submission an old, unnecessary technique. First of all I don't care about PR, I care about the search engine result position for certain keywords. So, does it really help to increase my result position if I submit the site in some web directories, using my keyword as anchor text ?
Waiting for your answers.
//sorry for my bad English Hi,
As you might have known that it is impossible for you to setup the right anchor text when you submit your sites or pages on directories, directory submission would have little direct benefit on your SERP. Of course, directory submission would help your SEO efforts in increasing link popularity.
all the best, Hmm not really. I guess keywords like "car tuning" "tuning news" "tuning pictures" are not that bad, and I might get some approvals. choose keywords that are directly involved in your type of business or site. THis allows google to rank you faster. A couple of excellent examples of what not to do. These two were submitted to a directory in the last hour as Titles:
Watch Live, Stream Live, Events, Movies, Sports, tv, Media Market place
Gaur city +91-9953734750,Gaur City Noida Extension,gaur city 2
and for some reason they think they will be accepted!!! Directory submissions is an old SEO technique but still very useful. While doing submission you can use key phrases as your title. this helps in improving search engine rankings. Directory submissions helps to increase search engine position, but don't depend upon just one technique, use technique like bookmarking, networking and article submission also. I just make backlink analysis for my top competitors in Google, observe their directory links indexed in yahoo and submit to those directories only. Few of them are even paid directories too. Quote: Originally Posted by sudipdasin Submit your sites with your keywords as your anchor text in well known high page-rank and alexa rank directories. You are bound to get both traffic and page rank juice out of it. Best of luck. I've manually submitted to hundreds upon hundreds of directories. The only ones that provide any sort of click-through traffic at all are the very popular ones, and that's only 1 or 2 clicks a month.
With that being said, your SERP will benefit from keyword anchored links. Try and be selective about which directories you submit to, as massive submitting can potentially be counter-productive. Take it slow and try to only submit to well-aged directories. There's a site called Directory Critic that allows you to view and sort directories by PR, Age, Rank, etc. Depends on the directories you are submitting. As they say quality directories are those with high PR usually. And also as long as the directories are not doing some underground/unnessary stuff it will be fine. You can tell directories doing that from the directory structure itself. Quote: Originally Posted by sachihawaii I've manually submitted to hundreds upon hundreds of directories. The only ones that provide any sort of click-through traffic at all are the very popular ones, and that's only 1 or 2 clicks a month This is along the lines of what I was wondering...
- Do you (or members in general) submit to directories for 'click traffic?'
- Or do you do it to be saddled up with a respected site?
I'm looking more for the latter... Quote: Originally Posted by seobrother Directory submission is one of the basic method in SEO. You are right, use keywords as a title.
More SEOffal. Once again - keywords in titles submitted to quality directories will be, at best, changed, at worst deleted. DMOZ is of course a great directory to be listed in. DMOZ coupled with Yahoo, Business, BOTW can help your domain build authority fast. Not just any little blog will get listed in those directories and SE's know this for the most part.
Other than that, industries like Architecture + Building Supplies have some outstanding industry related directories that are very old and full of value. My point? Be strategic and dial down relevancy. The title should describe the business and not only the keyword, and give a good description, then only your directory submission efforts will get good results. I am not pretty sure..but heard somewhere..that dir submissions are not worth as much as they were in yester days..I myself honeslty prefer only DMOZ dirctories..nothing else