Directories and Link Building
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I was reading a post by Eric Enge, http://www.seomoz.org/blog/role-of-directories-in-link-building
and nobody talked about in the comments, so I want to see what you think:
Considering that get some bad links from punished directories is bad for your site, it's worth to use site submissions softwares, like SubmitEaze, that promisses a 1,000 submits?
Do you use it, what you think about it?[title edited by staff for clarity]
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Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
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Unless you have a very very broad site subject, chances are if you submitted to a large number of directories, very few (if any depending on your niche) would be relevant, and only a handful of those would pass any real link juice. If you find a few quality directories in your niche they could help, just have a good look at their status first before submitting.
The time and cash would be better spent (as already stated) on gaining links from credible sources.
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I would stay away from all those types of programs. Even if you only have to pay $9.99 for 1,000 submissions, it will do more harm then good and most likely you would only see a few links.
Focus more on Quality links.
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I wouldn't go with completely worthless. Mostly worthless yeah, but it's worth it for extra IP diversity I think
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Do you use it,
No.
What you think about it?
I think that those links are worthless.
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