Should I hire someone to submit to new directories

[jennypretty]

Hello,

I like to gain back links on my sites. However, I do not have much time to do this.
Most of my time is to write new articles and submit them to article directories and create in my blogs to submit to social bookmarking sites.

Should I hire someone to submit my sites to new web directories?

Thanks very much!

Have a nice day!

[James2Dylan]

Sounds like you are a very busy person with all the stuff you are doing. Have you every thought of a virtual assistant? If you don't have time to do the directory submissions, that would be a great think for them to do.

I usually do it all myself. I just break up the day and time to dedicate to specific tasks. An hour for directory submissions, hour for article posting...etc..

[stoner3221]

Originally Posted by jennypretty

Hello,

I like to gain back links on my sites. However, I do not have much time to do this.
Most of my time is to write new articles and submit them to article directories and create in my blogs to submit to social bookmarking sites.

Should I hire someone to submit my sites to new web directories?

Thanks very much!

Have a nice day!

The task of submitting to new directories is entirely a waste of time regardless of who does it.

[robjones]

Originally Posted by stoner3221

The task of submitting to new directories is entirely a waste of time regardless of who does it.

Yes and no. New general directories, yeah, they're late to the party and are unlikely to be worth the effort... but I've seen a few niche directories and Local directories of fairly recent vintage I'd consider worthwhile.

IMO you could probably submit to every worthwhile directory on the web in a single day and move on. Given how few are really worth submitting to I'd say do it yourself correctly instead of letting someone else possibly muddy up the process.

[bjohnson]

I agree with you Robjones. It's really worth if you submit quality directories in a single day. And it does not take much time. It's much better to go with it from yourself.

[seolyka2]

I also agree with Robjones. Directory submission is still good as long as you will filter your submission and focus more submitting on those quality local directories and niche directories.

[florra82]

If you already have a good list of directories then IMO you should submit at your own. 2-3 submissions a day will take just a couple of days to submit to most of the niche and quality directories. If you want to go viral (1000's of them) then it will be better to hire someone.

[enterscope]

Outsourcing directory submissions can backfire if the person uses a lot of automated methods. Directory links should really constitute about 2-5% of your total backlinks and only from quality high pr sites.

There are plenty of directories that are strict on submissions and even have cheap featured listings. Just gotta look for them.

[vkonnect]

It is recommended that you should do that on your own, however if you really don't have time for all that than you should hire someone for submission job, as if you don't it would directly affect every section of your work, and this is because you will be under a huge amount of stress.

[jeffsmith]

Directories submission is not a hard a work you can simply do it yourself if you have a time.

[DatingExpert]

If you dont have much time to do it yourself, i dont think there is any ham in outsourcing. I have been outsourcing myself.

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by jeffsmith

Directories submission is not a hard a work you can simply do it yourself if you have a time.

Did you read the thread creators opening post?

She doesn't have much time to dedicate to directory submission. Should she outsource this task?

What should she look for if she outsources this task? You know there some crappy directory submission services out there that put your link on dropped domains and keyword stuffed spammy directories.

[robjones]

Originally Posted by DatingExpert

If you dont have much time to do it yourself, i dont think there is any ham in outsourcing. I have been outsourcing myself.

We'll assume you mean there isn't harm in outsourcing {though there probably isn't any ham in it either }... but having worked in directories for many years I can attest to the fact that outsourcing *to the wrong people* can definitely harm the site owner's prospects.

If the job is outsourced to some turkey that keyword stuffs submissions, sends them to blatantly wrong categories, sends them to every category in a directory, spells like a three year old, etc... it tends to make the site stand out in a way the owner did not hope for.

--- If it's going to an auto-accept directory {PS: a total waste of time to begin with from an SEO perspective}
then the listing just makes the site owner look like a dunce. Does anyone benefit from a listing for a carpet company in Georgia that's submitted to a category for dentists in California? Do you want a listing in the correct category that says "Wee are most carefully enstolling the most best carpets into your homes since 1982!!!!"

--- If it goes to a real directory edited by flesh and blood people
The owner better hope the editor gets control of his gag reflex and overlooks the spamminess factor. A good editor may re-write titles and descrips and divert it to the correct cat if one comes in like that, but if a boatload of submissions with the identical error pattern hits, they might all meet the reject key simultaneously.

Just saying it is possible for outsourcing to be an issue if tasked to an idiot, and apparently there are a surprising number of those that do submissions for a fee. Choose wisely. They're carrying your reputation with them.

[green789]

Originally Posted by stoner3221

The task of submitting to new directories is entirely a waste of time regardless of who does it.

Yes, your opinion is right about free directories bec the approval rate is very very small in free directories, but submission to quality paid directories can save you time and also help you in your cause.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by green789

Yes, your opinion is right about free directories bec the approval rate is very very small in free directories, but submission to quality paid directories can save you time and also help you in your cause.

Is that because you own paid directories and don't like competing with free ones?

Free directories having a very very small approval rate would actually be a huge positive.

What we see in reality though is a large number of vanilla directory scripts masquerading as directories that offer a free-for-all submission process with little-to-no-editing. It's easy to get listed in 10,000 directories. The approval rate is very very high.

However, it's difficult to get listed in 10-100 good directories. I use the word good but you could substitute that with quality, respected, well-edited, high-integrity or whatever buzz word you like.

That's how it should be. Paying for a listing shouldn't make that any easier. It should just mean that someone is actually reviewing your site and the information that you submitted with it. The reason why they would do this is because they are being compensated for their time.

The fact of the matter is that most websites shouldn't gain listings in directories, because the sites are poor, they are spammy, they aren't up-to-date, they are unfinished .... the list goes on.

Good directories (that word again) will generally have a smaller, yet more useful, level of content. They will continually be adding sites, but it will be in batches of 1-5 not 100-500.

Less is more, it has always been that way.

[snowbird]

Originally Posted by jennypretty

Hello,

I like to gain back links on my sites. However, I do not have much time to do this.
Most of my time is to write new articles and submit them to article directories and create in my blogs to submit to social bookmarking sites.

Should I hire someone to submit my sites to new web directories?

Thanks very much!

Have a nice day!

Did you copy this post from somewhere else or are you the one posting it at 226 other forums?

[c5c1lia]

If you think that it's difficult to manage all the works then it's better to hire a professional to get some help in your way. But, make sure that you're hiring a person who have some experience in the SEO.

[Puneet]

Originally Posted by snowbird

Did you copy this post from somewhere else or are you the one posting it at 226 other forums ?

lol ... that was a nice catch

If you dont have time for submitting in new directories then dont do it atleast for few weeks coz new directories wont be having much weightage in search engines and after this Penguin update submitting to dirs is like taking risk

[ijujym]

It may have no effect at all for you if the directories are banned. Take a look at this SeoMoz article about some directories seomoz[dot]org/blog/web-directory-submission-danger

[ireshagun]

Frankly, I wouldn't bother wasting my time. Pay someone to do it as there are thousands of such services on there, or use some kind of automated software to do it, again there are hundreds of such SEO automation tools out there