Root domain or subdomain when submitting to directories, also pr 3 and lower, is it bad to list to these directories?

[allstatetransmission]

Hello all, Should I use my root domain or sub domain when adding my site to local directories? I'm very new to this, so I just want to be sure, sub domains start with the www, right? I know all my listings should have the same NAP, and it makes sense to have the same root or sub domain listed as well, but I was wondering if I should try and help one type of domain if it starts to get a bad ratio of follow & no follow links. Also, do directories with a page rank of 3 or lower, or directories with a no follow link, bad for my sites rankings?

[RobertFisher]

Hello Jeff and welcome to the land of Moz.

As to sub domains, yes www is a subdomain of www.example.com. But, my.example.com is a sub domain of example.com and your.domain.com is a subdomain of example.com. So, based on your question I am going to give you a question:

Have you set a preferred domain in GWMT, Bing, etc.? You need to tell them whether or not you prefer www.yoursite.com or yoursite.com otherwise these are seen as two sites. Now, the other thing you need to do is correctly set them in your .htaccess file if you are using Apache for example. If you are unsure of how, let the community know here or in another question.

Once that is done. Assuming you are only using your domain and not a sub domain, you will simply submit your preferred domain. The reason for this is: For ranking purposes, a domain and a sub domain are not treated as a single site/entity; they are treated as separate domains. So a link to one does not attribute anything to the other per se.

Hope it helps,

[Keszi]

Hi Jeff,

First of all, as previously mentioned in another question of yours I would recommend redirecting from non-www to www or vice-versa. And after that using only one version of the URL to link to your website.

Now related to this question: I wouldn't bother myself with PR.

If working with directory listings I would go to the most popular ones from my business niche. For example here on SEOmoz we have a list of web directories which were recommended by mozzers: http://www.seomoz.org/directories

I would recommend you to read through the short text on that page, it will give you on overview where to submit your listing.

Greetings,

Istvan