Submitting to Link Directories...

[InsightsDigital]

Hi

Have you submitted to link directories. If so, what has been your experience? Most best practices guidebooks advise against it.

[articlemaster9]

Directory submission is a kinda dead method for me. Its not effective at all according to me. It don't give enough traffic and i don't prefer using it. Someday it will completely vanish as all webmaster's are avoiding it completely. its not worth any more.

[InsightsDigital]

Thanks for sharing. I remember that directory submission was the craze a few years ago but not now.

[Flower]

Directories are the basic promotion tactic and also effective if the directory updated properly and having good reputation in search engine but nowadays this become out of fashion.

[redesignunit]

Thanks a lot for sharing

[SteveGriffin]

I agree it's not really necessary these days, it's possible to get listed in a matter of hourse using video marketing or web 2.0 marketing.

When i say possible, it is possible but doesn't usually happen that quickly but generally within a matter of days

[bobchrist]

Add keywords in your description and submit in most relevant category.

[InsightsDigital]

Also, a good way to increase targeted visitors to the site is by submitting url relevant with multimedia to the directory related to multimedia. In my own experience, I have discovered that multimedia SEO helps increase traffic.

[bgeisel1]

For myself, I used a directory submission service and within 2-4 weeks I was listed #2 in Google for the keywords I targeted. This won't happen if you are targeting "online marketing" or something similar, obviously. In my case, I went from not being Google listed for that particular term (at least not in the top 100) to being #2.

In my opinion it isn't the best way, but it certainly should be part of an overall marketing plan. As a side note, I did not submit to 10,000 directories or whatever some of these sites claim. I used a service that submits to only 100 directories, all of which have a Google PageRank of 4 or higher. That should obviously help you stay out of accidentally being posted to "bad neighborhoods".

FWIW,
geis

[jaakko]

i think directories is only change Page Rank in your site.