Help on Directory submission

[johnricky]

While submitting a site in to the list of web directories, I find many of the category pages have not been cached by SEs. Is there any use in submitting these directories assuming our site link will be cached or should I skip this kind of directories having many pages in a category? Please advice.

[govindseo]

I think skip this type of directory....
always choose some high PR home page and at least inner page indexed by Search Engine otherwise wast of time.

Thanks!

[jabo]

most of directories don't get all of their pages indexed anyways, what I do is, after receiving a letter that my link is approved, I would search for my link and then bookmark that page to get it cached.

[amar]

You are not going to loose anything by submitting your site details to a directory. The page may gain page rank in future. So, don't worry about that.

[innominds]

I would submit my site even if the inner page doesn't have any PR provided that it gives genuine traffic.

[sudhani]

Traffic from directories?

Think only 2 directories will ever get you any traffic: DMOZ & Yahoo! - there could be some 'niche' directories as well. But, all other directories are only of SEO Link juice. Do we still have value in directory links?

[morestar]

I think skip this type of directory....
always choose some high PR home page and at least inner page indexed by Search Engine otherwise wast of time.

Thanks!

wrong, don't skip any directories that are working, people, although it may be next to one or two, visit these sites AND eventually the ses will crawl them.

A link is a link.

[intelinside]

Well, directories do help in long run so do add to them.

I submitted my site to about 50 directories and after 1 month of my site's launch, I am at PR 3 now :)

[scott5430]

best directories are (obviously) high pr with relevant category and limited amount of links. but as others have said, a link is a link and they all help.

[shakir]

While submitting a site in to the list of web directories, I find many of the category pages have not been cached by SEs. Is there any use in submitting these directories assuming our site link will be cached or should I skip this kind of directories having many pages in a category? Please advice.

According to the direcories rules must post in the right category... But now I feel spending much time on directory posting is waste ...no need to waste time bcz geting BL is very rarely

[williamc]

The fact is things change. What is not cached now, may be later. Using DigiXmas submitter or using a quality submission service means you don't have to spend too much time on submissions. Always do every little thing you can, your competitors surely will.

[morestar]

most of directories don't get all of their pages indexed anyways, what I do is, after receiving a letter that my link is approved, I would search for my link and then bookmark that page to get it cached.

good idea, so technically even if the link is on page 5 it can be cached, or you can link to it from anywhere else you want to, to get it crawled...

[morestar]

Traffic from directories?

Think only 2 directories will ever get you any traffic: DMOZ & Yahoo! - there could be some 'niche' directories as well. But, all other directories are only of SEO Link juice. Do we still have value in directory links?

Maybe there's a benefit, if you want to test one.

maybe by submitting your product or domain name as the title, you can 'train' google to recognize your brand name. like my sig. site, at first I couldn't search my domain name on google (without spaces) and see my site, now I do, and if I miss-spell my domain google suggest the real one.

do you get what I'm saying? It's a link! It's on a webpage that has been cached and it has your brand name in the title...links from directories other than the big ones don't offer us much? but at the same time they do offer something (which the algorithm finds)...and we should find...