Thread: How does directory submission benefit you?

Directory submission has been considered one of the SEO techniques to get your sites ranked higher in search engines.

Directories are spidered by bots regularly to update their records and it is frequent visits by bots, which makes them hot spots for getting included and thus spidered. Submitting to directory in this way means more of submitting directly into search engine.

Now just submission doesn't help you. Submission has to be meaningful and in right category. Submitting a webmaster's site into directory dealing with dog food, will get you nothing much, rather disapproove your submission, so you end up wasting time and resources. Consider time waste as well if they disapproove say 3 weeks later.

So, while you submit, be careful where you are submitting. Will that category truely represent your site?

Also, it must be noted that directory submission is mainly for backlinks and to build a PR, not for traffic.

So, in a way directory submissions increase your backlinks, PR which increases worth of your site in long run.

Also, it must be noted that directory submission is mainly for backlinks and to build a PR, not for traffic.

I too agree, traffic is dead....

Even for me, directory submissions are a mean of getting cost effective backlinks and some google juice in the form of PR...

Yeah, I only submit to directories because of the backlinks and don't expect any human traffic and receive only minimal traffic from them.

Originally Posted by onetwothree

Yeah, I only submit to directories because of the backlinks and don't expect any human traffic and receive only minimal traffic from them.

Yep about it

Directory backlinks are generally very low quality and are only useful in abundance. I submitted a site to hundreds of directories (by hand) to see the effects... I got a PR6 up from PR1 at the next update.

However, traffic from SEs stayed about the same and absolutely zero traffic from the directories themselves.

Directory submission is a good foundation but will generally equate to nothing unless you obtain real quality backlinks too

I agree a backlink tells the search engine you are 'important', but a context backlink tells a search engine what you are important for.

Probably the only upside of a high PR is that you get crawled more often

High PR is also useful for selling links. A lot of people still buy links, based on PR.