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Originally Posted by lloyd.velarde@gmail.
i usually used directories for backlink purpose though they say that the weight of importance directories is not that high unlike before!
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That's true, here's what WebProNews says in an interview with Google officials:
Question: Recently, you removed this suggestion: "Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!" from your guidelines. Is there any chance that you will be discounting these kinds of links for ranking value in future?
Google’s Answer: There's always the chance that we'll discount directory links in the future. What we were seeing was quite a few novice people would see the "directory" recommendation and go out and just try to submit to a ton of directories, even if some of the directories were lower-quality or even fly-by-night directories that weren't great for users. Right now we haven't changed how we're weighting directory links--we've only removed the directory suggestion from the webmaster guidelines.
Translation: Possibly.
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/20...nd-link-advice