Don't Waste Your Time with Web Directories!

[Zosogsmor]

I don't know if I have already talked about this in this website or not but I have to say it once again because I see some of the posts encourage webmasters to submit their websites to a huge number of web directories.I don't have time to explain more but when most of the backlinks are from a kind of websites, link web directories or article directories, your website will be penalized by Google, Yahoo and MSN. Only a few of web directories does worth trying. Forget about the others.What you say is right, if site submitted to directories that are low grade directories or directoires that are poor or banned by google can harm your listing. But good directoires can increase your PR dramatically, especially if Keywords are used in Title text.I always suggest submit your site to High PR directories, if possible PR1 and above. Whey PR1 and above? Simple that means google has given some recognition to those directories. By the way Google doesn't penalizeses link back from Goodl directories.I don't think inbound links will ever hurt you.Just tha some links are devalued and would not do much to help you.In some cases, niche directories are good for targetted traffic.If you submit the same link to the directories. Most of them become filtered and your site won't get backlinks. If you are looking fo profit - you should use unique anchors for links.solidghost wrote:Thanks for the information Gimmie. I didn't know you should vary your link text and description text. I dont remember submitting link text, is that the title name?Yup - the "link text" is the title. Example - in my siggy, this is the link text: "Get Cheap Domains at blah blah blah..."and this is the URL that text points to: http://links.gimmemydomains.comAlso, the description text you use helps the page your link resides on to be more relevant to your niche and your best keywords.solidghost wrote:"Inbound links can hurt if they are from what Google considers a "bad neighborhood".That is not true! If you read Google's own words, they know you cannot control who links to your website. If that was the case, we could all put our competition out of business by putting them in blacklisted directories.One thing I learned in forums is don't believe everything you read. Read it on Google first before you get wrong advice: http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... swer=35769I think submitting your site to directories may not contribute lot in your site page rank but same time it will not affect adversely to your site's page rank. There are many directories which are there in the net from long time but do not have any Google page rank. These types of directories add no value to your site as a back link. So I think page rank is also one of the main factors which site owner need to consider.Site owner should also take care about approval many times approval is so late so site owner may not remember any thing about that submission. So I think submission time is very much important.ThanksInbound links can never hurt you. If it does, then won't it be easy to abuse this? Just link your competitor from every known "bad neighbourhood" you can find.Vahid wrote:lakelandprinting wrote:Samuraii wrote:Thanks for the correction and the link to Google's policies. This is their statement from the page you sent:Quote: