PR directories good for seo?
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Hi
I would like to publish article with backlink to gambling related website in PR directories - page rank 3 and more. Each articles wil be unique -no duplicate.
Is it googe for seo? Thanks.
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Hi MM,
Here are the resources I usually hand to beginning link builders to get them started:
- http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies
- http://www.linkbuildingbook.com/link-building-resources.html
- http://www.clockworkpirate.com/
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/link-building
It should take you a year of full time link building to truly go after all of the strategies listed in the first 3 resources, and all of them contain tactics that you can use indefinitely. The important I'd focus on is keeping a steady pace of content creation and outreach efforts, diversification of your strategies, and avoiding anything that feels spammy (because that's a good sign that it's a low value tactic).
Feel free to ask any questions here, but that should get you started!
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Hi there
Im just wondering how to obtain backlinks, when publishing marketing articles are not so good for seo, quality directories are done for my website, and backlinks from foreign language websites are good as well? How to get backlinks any ideas? Thanks.
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Hi M M
I'm assuming you mean article directories with significant pagerank?
If so, you should watch this Matt Cutts video:
http://www.inetseo.co.uk/what-links-do-google-want-to-see/Long story short: avoid article directories.
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I would also agree they are not worth much. A few years back I hired a PR firm out of LA for about 6 months. We talked about PR and how important it was to get some good quality links. They told us from the start that they were great with SEO and they would get us tons of backlinks. Everytime we had a press release it was getting blasted all over the place. We got links from yahoo, marketwatch, msn, etc etc. We also received links from PR directories. Over time I started realizing that nearly every press release was hitting these same "newswires" and that many were hitting the directories. It did not seem to add value from what I could tell. Directories are so easy. I join them more to look inline with my industry than for SEO value.
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Are you talking about press release websites or article websites? If it's the former then there is minimal SEO benefit but if you find some industry-specific websites and post it to them. If it is article websites then stay clear of them, they were all devalued in the last update and I'd also get rid of any articles you have on these types of websites.
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I personally do not think that they are good for SEO; however, they potentially can be good for PR and getting your company name out there.
The backlinks you gain from PR directories are usually pretty low quality and not counted for much.
Maybe create a PR section on your website, then use social media to give teasers about it, linking back to your PR section... that would potentially drive traffic to your site and get people to follow you to hear about PR news.
Hope this helps.
Mike
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