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Do you still submit to directories for SEO purposes?

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How many of you are still taking time and submitting to every directory you come across? Some sites offer a “Directory” section which lets members list their directories for you to submit sites too, sometimes you may find them via a huge blog list of XXXX directories to submit to. But how many of you take time, register and submit the details of your site over and over again in an attempt to gain the ever valuable backlink?

Previously directory submissions were a great way to build some solid backlinks. The trick now is most engines have updated their algorithms and started giving less weight to most of them, even being listed in big ones such as DMOZ and Yahoo isn’t what it used to be.

The problem with directories now is that they usually contain thousands of out bound links, sometimes they contain thousands of outbound links that go no where or to dead sites, or to bad sites such as “spammish” gambling and drug sites. Take that, and then the definition of a link farm, and you’ll see why most directories no longer carry any weight at all, and very few that carry some weight.

If the site is purely a directory, then chance of it giving you any bennefit is small. The directory will probably be nice and categorized, but then it’ll start getting deep down in folder structures for where your link will be placed. By the time the search engine spiders find your link, thats if they even crawl the page(s) its own, they won’t care about it.

However, some directories still continue to carry a small bit of weight for them, such as the Yahoo directory, the DMOZ directory and a few other of the larger human edited directories can still be benneficial in the link back category.

We of course don’t encourage anyone to sit around and submit their site to 500 directories, or even pay $99.99 for 1000 directory submissions. Instead, find which directories are still giving benefit of being listed in, and then try to get your site listed for that extra back link.

We’d love to hear your thoughts if you still submit to directories, be sure to leave a comment or head on over to our SEO Tips forum, and let us know there.

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