Excellent Article About Directory Submissions

[peter_d]

So, what is a directory submission worth?

I think Massa has got closer to the truth than anyone else.

http://massa.techndu.com/2007/10/24/...sionWorth.aspx

So, whether it’s free or paid for review, taking the time to select an “appropriate” directory and category that you feel could benefit your site, writing a proper title and description that indicates you care what someone reading it would think of your site and doing these things on a schedule that a human could actually do is not only a good way to promote your site on a virtually non –existent budget but I also think it helps to build a little trust in your site. It is natural, logical and should be done because it is kind of like online promotion 101.

[x3mario]

Nice post. But we should also keep in our mind that submitting our site into wrong category can also harm our site. Meaning you can have backlinks in not related site...and we know that google will devalued this...

[potchie]

it just like as earning quality link,it must be related to your site.

[swiftmed]

Nice one mate. thanks for sharing

[redeemer_spawn]

nice info., you are right guys we should join and submit or have LE to those sites which are related to our site.,

[JusenMujarJr]

Thanks for the additional info's....

[Pinkfly]

Originally Posted by x3mario

Nice post. But we should also keep in our mind that submitting our site into wrong category can also harm our site. Meaning you can have backlinks in not related site...and we know that google will devalued this...

well said X3mario..having a group of inter-linked websites or simply known as bad neighborhoods and not following the webmaster guidelines can definitely harm your site...

[WagerX]

Originally Posted by x3mario

Nice post. But we should also keep in our mind that submitting our site into wrong category can also harm our site. Meaning you can have backlinks in not related site...and we know that google will devalued this...

I'm not so convinced that a link in the "wrong" directory will hurt your site. I think it will be a valueless link and a waste of time. Otherwise, who's to stop your competitor from placing your links on random directories?

[Hafsoh]

Originally Posted by WagerX

I'm not so convinced that a link in the "wrong" directory will hurt your site. I think it will be a valueless link and a waste of time. Otherwise, who's to stop your competitor from placing your links on random directories?

Yes i agree posting in wrong category might not hurt your site , it could just be baseless and may not even be approved.

[bobking]

Thanks Peter for the accolades. Being so new to the blogclog, I need all the help can get.

>Yes i agree posting in wrong category might not hurt your site<

I can tell you from a LOT of past experience that there is no one thing you can do right or wrong that hurts you. Search engines determining relevancy via any type of trust worthiness is about patterns and modus operandi of a particular webmaster and/or site.

submitting to the wrong directory or the wrong category is usually more of a time constraint problem than a spam problem. when you are trying to submit your site to 5 -10 or even 100 directories, filling out the forms can be a maximus painus in the gluteus maximus. Any smart machine, or even a search engine, could figure out that MOST human beings in the normal course of promoting their site would likely submit to a lot of directories and likely make some mistakes. no big deal.

Submit to mostly weak directories using an auto submit tool making that your ace-up-your-sleeve and you have problems. Make autosubmitting to directories, auto-posting to unattended blogs and link exchanges with any and all tom, dick and master baiter of links and you may see a little sunshine in that dusty old wallet of yours for a fleeting moment, but I can assure you, the darkness cometh.

Ok, ok, enough waxing poetic. The point is, stop thinking in terms of which one will help and which one will hurt and think in terms of, "what can I do today to attract one more interested prospect than I attracted yesterday without risking all that I've built up already and that is what any normal, logical person wanting to build an on line presence would do and you will be fine with time.

ahhh, the ever present enemy -- time. Were it not for time, there would be no need to assess risk vs reward. Only you can decide how much you want how fast and what you are willing to risk to get it that fast, but no matter what your objectives, (assuming you have some), trying to figure out exactly which directory is worth submitting to is an expense of your time that could be spent much better elsewhere.

clear as mud huh?

Peace Y'all
Massa

[ezhel]

When submitting to a directory, the major hindrance as well as the major benefit lies in the human editor. Your submission will be viewed by an actual person who determines how relevant and unique your website is. After passing his scrutiny and editing, your website will be accepted in the directory. This automatically establishes the credibility of your website; hence search engines will consider links submitted to directories.

[marthrock]

Yes but determining the relevence of your site as it pertains to a directory when determining whether you should submit it or not is like trying to determine whos apples taste best. There might be 30 different varieties, but really how are you really going to determine the age of the site? Go to Whois and do a domain lookup? Yes, PR you can determine, But If I have to go through each directory list and look for the ones that might be most appropriate and relevent to my site, I'd be lucky to submit to 10 a day, given the other things that must be done on a day to day basis...

[projectx]

Nice article, i think it as long you keep in your niche it will work fine.

[Cryxellis]

Nice Article you got there thanks for sharing it to us.
Even though it's free we should be familiar of what
the pointers are when submitting directories, the
relevancy and quality are the main focus of it.

[bbrock32]

Thanks , nice article!

[TheFriend]

Thanks for sharing........

[guinanie]

nice article peter. directory submission is one of the link building strategy done by the seo and we submit our link as to get backlink and to easily indexed the site. but it is important to submit link to relevant directories and identify if it is a trusted site. the question is , it is worth to submit link to a directories. i think it is.