163 replies to this topic

[caifeng]

Major Chinese directories:-
sina.com.cn
sohu.com
163.com

[BrianR]

Welcome to the forum, caifeng - hope you enjoy being with us.

BrianR

[sdavis]

Good information and a great thread. By the number of posts I have made, you can pretty much tell I am new to the game. However, I have spent the past 3 days linking all the free directories to my established site. Just trying to stay ahead of the pack since linking is becoming more and more popular.

Anyway, I am at the point where I will need to begin using the pay directories if I want to continue. So I have a quick question.

I am considering paying for directories like business.com, joeant.com, goguides.com. However, I have noticed that the PR is low for the actual pages that my link would show up on. So for example, on goguides.com the page rank is 0 on the actual page where my link would show up, however goguides has a higher pagerank on other pages.

Will these links carry enough weight to inpact my pagerank? Or will it be a waste of money? I do not anticipate getting too much tangible traffice from these lists, so I would be shooting for impacting my links and PR with these paid directories.

Thanks in advance for the advice, and once agian great thread!

Sdavis

[Jill]

Since you don't need to actually worrying about increasing your PageRank, it doesn't matter too much what the PR of the page your link is on, is.

All links are good links, especially relevant links from a trusted source. And especially ones where you might have decent keywords in your clickable link.

Unfortunately, most directory listings won't give you decent keywords in your link, so keep that in mind also.

[sdavis]

Thanks! Does anybody know of any directories that will give relevant keywords in the links?

Thanks,
SDavis

[BrianR]

I'm not sure there are any. However, you might want to look through the threads in the 'Link Building' area of the forum for other ideas, as directories are only part of the picture.

BrianR

[Presentationrentals]

I’m not sure if business.com would be worth the $100. I can’t find them in google and the public page rank is zero.

Even when i go to google and type www.business.com I get nothing

[sdavis]

That is pretty strange. Anybody know why it doesn't show up in Google? It seems like a good directory from what everybody is saying. I am not concerned about the page rank since it doesn't seem to be as important. However, if it doesn't even show up in google, then is it possible that it was blacklisted or something like that?

Thanks,
Sdavis

[Jill]

Presentationrentals, how many times do we gotta tell you that the PageRank means nothing?

I've heard of many people who swear by Business.com as a great source of traffic, which is the bottom line.

[richiepearce]

Ask Frank does seem to allow keywords in the links as long as they are not too long.

[Presentationrentals]

how many times do we gotta tell you that the PageRank means nothing?

Seven more times! (kidding Jill)

Can you try going to www.google.com and enter business.com

All I get is

Sorry, no information is available for the URL business.com

If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: business.com
Find web pages that contain the term "business.com"

now try www.business.com and I get the same thing

now try http:// www.business.com

(leave the space out, I'm trying to make sure I am rul3 11 compliant

Again, nothing.

Jill, could you please double check my findings and see if you get a different result?

If I’m wrong Ill re-label my thinking cap ‘dunce hat.'

[Jill]

I'm not seeing it that way either, but it just must be a weird glitch. They've got it with a fresh date if you do an inurl:business.com search for it.

Since nobody is probably searching for it by url at Google, I wouldn't worry about it.

[qwerty]

I'd say this search demonstrates that business.com has a bit of power. They're #1 in Google for "business"

[Randy]

Try searching for business.com it in Yahoo. Or MSN. Or AskJeeves. Or any other search engine that is not named Google.

Then remind yourself that Google doesn't control the world anymore.

FWIW, Business.com gets their traffic from a lot more places than just the search engines and for sure more than just Google. People who use Business.com don't typically find it by searching for a phrase on some search engine.

As is the case anytime you're asking for or purchasing a link think Potential Traffic first, not PR or link pop. Which has been the consistent advice around here for as long as I can remember.

[powerofeyes]

They are ranking No.1 for the keyword "business" which is a hugh keyword http://www.google.co...ess&btnG=Search

<qwerty beat me to it>

, So yes probably some sort of glitch,

i can see even their Pagerank is Zero, Which confirms they got caught in some minor hidden penalty and are back in index, It is just a glitch with the new google filters, New google filter seem to target links only pages, Since Business.com has lots of links pages might be some error happened with automated filter which removed business.com from index,

Anyway they are back in index that is what matters,