Submitting website to directories

Yeah sure, you can gain some backlinks from directories. This should not be your main strategy but they still do work, just not as good as they once did.

I can imagine that your PR will not increase much but your rankings would, yes.

Directory submissions are ok as long as they are done one by one manually. Don’t use an automated software!

@Big Fish 229705 wrote:

Directory submissions are ok as long as they are done one by one manually. Don’t use an automated software!

Yeah, don’t use automated software or even services. Do it all by hand.

I completely agree, don’t submit your website to directories in bulk or automatically via software. Also, don’t pay websites to submit your website to 100’s or 1000’s of low quality directories, Google will penalize you big time for these low quality links. This used to work about 5 years ago, but Google has gotten much smarter since then :Nod:

@Big Fish 229705 wrote:

Directory submissions are ok as long as they are done one by one manually. Don’t use an automated software!

makes zero sense.

@michaela26 229724 wrote:

I completely agree, don’t submit your website to directories in bulk or automatically via software. Also, don’t pay websites to submit your website to 100’s or 1000’s of low quality directories, Google will penalize you big time for these low quality links. This used to work about 5 years ago, but Google has gotten much smarter since then :Nod:

Specially after the panda updater

If you want to improve your backlinks and traffic, you must link/promote your website into different websites such as social bookmarking, article submission sites, social networking, forum, web directories and other helpful site by doing it manually. Using automated submission software is not advisable for seo cause it may harm your site.

Dont remember where i got this link from but it was from a few years ago, but lists some top directories, must submit manually…

Free Directory Submission – Rankings & Reviews of the Top Free Web Directories.

directorycritic.com is also a good resource, it lists a lot of reputable and high PR directories ” title=”” class=”bbcode_smiley” />

thanks for sharing