Why do you all have directory sites?

[icb01co2]

Hi All,

My question is simple, as I trawl through WPW i notice that a bunch of you have directory sites in your signatures. Can I ask why you set up these sites and whatyou use them for? I can only assume that these sites aren't your main ones and you use them for some other reasons, possibily to promote your main sites in some way?

Cheers, Chris.

[dburdon]

Chris,

I'm perhaps the last SEOer without a directory. But I suggest people perhaps as a source of cheap PageRank. Maybe, I should join in?

[incrediblehelp]

I dont have one either.

[mike]

We have lots of them. It makes me feel trendy.

[stymiee]

Having one doesn't really do anything for SEO. Submitting to them does (if you submit to enough of them of course). I suspect it has nothing to do with SEO as it does the members are hoping to generate easy revenue from paid listings.

[RamyD]

Originally Posted by mike

We have lots of them. It makes me feel trendy.

I wish I was trendy

oooh, a wii link *clicks*

[Peter (IMC)]

left overs from the old days when lots of people were searching for links in directories. Now it just generates some additional money every now and then. PR is never the purpose but it feels really bad to quit the directory as many people paid for a link in it. Leaving it up is the right thing to do.

[SemAdvance]

Aother SEO without one!

but thanks to the free ones who give one way links without asking for anything in return!!!

Peace!

[dharrison]

I don't have one. I am proud to be untrendy.

I do submit to some directories as it used to count as a backlink. Does it still or is this 90s thinking?

[Peter (IMC)]

Originally Posted by dharrison

I don't have one. I am proud to be untrendy.

I do submit to some directories as it used to count as a backlink. Does it still or is this 90s thinking?

Still works. Every now and then we have a client site with just too few backlinks and the result is looooong waits for Google to start indexing. We submit to about 50 directories, (free and paid) and shortly after Google starts visiting and indexes everything.

Obviously, the effects are less visible when you already have a good amount of backlinks and a reasonable PR.

[phoenix.corp]

ok. I want to have one too. So, can anyone here throw me a link with a "how to build a seo friendly directory" tutorial ?

thanks a lot.

[SemAdvance]

Originally Posted by Peter (IMC)

Still works. Every now and then we have a client site with just too few backlinks and the result is looooong waits for Google to start indexing. We submit to about 50 directories, (free and paid) and shortly after Google starts visiting and indexes everything.

Obviously, the effects are less visible when you already have a good amount of backlinks and a reasonable PR.

Stop giving out secrets for free!!!!! LOL

[Peter (IMC)]

That´s a secret???