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Is Directory Submission Worth the Time?

By: Gabe

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Some say Directory Submission is Dead
First there was reciprical link building. Then Google caught on and began reducing the value of reciprical links. Following that wikis and blogs began to appear and annoying SPAM required common use of the NoFollow tag.
Following reciprical linking came web directories. Now many state that directories are ignored by Google too and that one gets little for the time and effort one puts into doing hundreds of submissions.
I've submitted two websites to web directories. I'm not a pro but my experience has been basically positive. (In case you are interested I use Directory Submitter.)
My Experience with Directory Submission
I run a very technical engineering website in a narrow niche. Because of this I was being mostly ignored by Google in favor of Wikipedia. Then I sent my site to nearly 350 directories in a few days (10 minutes here, 10 minutes there until it was finished).
Subsequent to submitting my site to the directories my PR did not change but my site was getting crawled much more frequently. This meant my new updates were included in Google's search results in a couple of days.
Shortly many of my pages were appearing on the 1st page of the "long tail keywords". My wiki's subject matter is Control Theory and the top 10 search returns for that keyword are dominated by Wikipedia, IEEE, and universities. There is little chance that I will ever knock them off their high ranking spots for that particular keyword. However, there are specific analysis topics (those "long tail keywords") where the top sites have little or no presence allowing me to rank high. It wasn't until a few weeks following my completed directory submissions until I achieved those first page resutls. Often with articles that had been on my site for months.
Conversely I started a Usenet web portal this previous fall and almost immediately started submitting it to directories. This has not produced any results. But, the portal is a portal to Usenet postings and probably suffers from duplicate content penalties.

Established Sites Don't Require Submission; Young Websites Do
Obviously, if you maintain an established website having a page rank above four then you don't need to put out the effort for directory submission. But, if your website is young or needing inbound, one-way, links then directories still help. Submission to the web directories is free, software is available to significantly speed up the process, and the links are (mostly) permenant.

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My hubpages on directory submission hubpages.com/hub/Is-Directory-Submission-Worth-the-Effort hubpages.com/hub/Submission-to-Directories-Gets-You-Hundreds-Of-Good-DoFollow-Links My blog on directory submission freebies.controltheorypro.com/92/free-website-directory-submitter/

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