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If I am not wrong the new co-citation concept will work in this kind of situations, search engines are intelligent enough to understand this kind of hierarchies. All the Best!.

Honestly, I am not insulting your intelligence, but do you think they really rank higher because of those directories?. I have bunch of URLs which doesn't have even a single inbound link to them, but ranks #1 on Google for so many competitive keywords. If I am not wrong, then your links are ranking because of your page's content. Please correct me If I am wrong!.

If it is a valid practice, then how it is natural?, according to Google a link should be acquired, rather than created by a webmaster himself (Am i correct?), then how directory submission will satisfy this condition?. Also how a directory holds authority if it doesn't have great content, instead it was just stuffed with few bunch of links to some external domains?.

I agree with you on the local listings part, because local lists help find people about the local businesses (people might be naturally want to search there to find the local data accurately), but web directories works on the concept of indexing anything..

I believe in what I see, and whenever I search for something on Google or any other search engine I found some great useful blogs or businesses website with great content inside them, I never see any directories in those results (at least in 99% of the cases).

Please correct me if I am wrong!,

Hi Guys,

I have few doubts running in my mind on directory submission, do you think it is still a valid practice in link building?. If your answer is "YES", then please correct me..

1. How submitting to directories is a natural link practice?

2. According to Google, links should not be purchased, it should to be created naturally, but if you see, a lot of high authority directories charging amount from people to index links, why Google not stopping those directories (I mean penalizing) and stopping the people who are trying to get indexed by paying.

3. According to me directories holds only bunch of links to some external domains (I hope I am not wrong), then how submitting to them can bring rankings to me?.

Sorry, if I sound stupid in any of my points, but expecting some good answers from you folks..

SEOMOZ is a popular community and frequently updated website too, so it will have the fast crawl rates, that is the reason it appears fast on the Google.

I totally agree with you Dana, whatever the domain might be, it should have original and updated content, that is whole single formula which could work now.. Thanks