Is the use of directories submissions useful or harmful?
Posted July 8th, 2009 by Seantmcvey
I have seen many sites that promote software that distributes your link to directories. An example is http://www.fastdirectorysubmitter.com/Are these types of programs useful or considered spam? In the Inbound University class about SEO, the speaker said that the best way to gain backlinks was by contacting webmasters who promote other companies like yours. For instance, getting yourself on a list of links. This seems like the best approach but also much slower than using software. What is most effective? Is directory software useful?
(1 vote)
Paid Links and SEO?
Magdalena Georgieva 33 weeks 2 days 6 hours 18 min ago
You can find more on this subject here: http://www.inboundmarketing.com/node/787
I agree with Tony
Adrian Chira 34 weeks 2 days 23 hours 55 min ago
I agree with Tony that the links cannot harm you. It may not help you but they cannot harm you. If you try on your website the website grader from Hubspot you will see that some of the points you get are for listing your site in different directories. One is DMOZ.org, the other is Yahoo.com and the last one is zoominfo. Also they look to Alexa for the traffic ranking and to Technorati for your blog ranking. This means that listing your site at least with these directories will help your site rank better in search.
Best,
Adrian
Thanks for the help
Seantmcvey 34 weeks 2 days 7 hours 21 min ago
Ok I understand this a bit more now. Thanks for your help you guys.
Usefulness of directories
Toni Aničić 35 weeks 2 days 13 hours 7 min ago
It really depends. Some really good directories like dmoz.org are good for your SEO.
Some other niche targeted directories might also help. Generally speaking, adding link to every small directory out there will be a waste of time. It can't hurt you.
Backlinks can never hurt you. No matter how spammy, or from how bad websites they come, they can't hurt your ranking. If they could, this would open space for bringing down your competitors by simply building bad links to their websites.
Google will sometimes devalue a link to the point where it gives you 0 PR value if it's algorithm thinks the link is spam, but the backlink will never hurt your ranking.
Really helpful
Sarah Gill 34 weeks 1 day 8 hours 48 min ago
That's great thanks.
Sorry for the repetition - I can't get the search box to display.
What browser are you using?
RickBurnes 33 weeks 2 days 6 hours 18 min ago
We're trying to track down the missing search box problem, and can't seem to reproduce it on our systems...
Rick