How many directories should be used for a particular website to submit. Is there any specified limit by the search engines, above which we should go.Please advice.
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How Many Directories ?
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prabhu
, Jan 30 2008 12:40 AM
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Posted 30 January 2008 - 12:54 AM
No, there's no recommended limit, but you'll probably find that the majority of directories, at least general directories, aren't of much value. Depending on the subject-matter of your site, you may find quite a few niche directories with pretty good authority. I'd limit myself to just a handful of general directories and spend my time and money on the more niche-oriented ones.
I was doing some research a couple of days ago and came up with about 40 directories in the niche of one of my clients. Very few of them were free, but I think most of them are going to be worth submitting to.
I was doing some research a couple of days ago and came up with about 40 directories in the niche of one of my clients. Very few of them were free, but I think most of them are going to be worth submitting to.
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Posted 06 February 2008 - 11:40 PM
It has no limit do as many as you can.
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Posted 07 February 2008 - 09:47 PM
QUOTE(qwerty @ Jan 29 2008, 11:54 PM) 
I was doing some research a couple of days ago and came up with about 40 directories in the niche of one of my clients. Very few of them were free, but I think most of them are going to be worth submitting to.
Was most of your research done by looking at the competition? Or do you have a place that is a good source for niche directories.
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Posted 08 February 2008 - 09:05 AM
I usually start of at the ISEDB, and then dig into the sites listed there. A lot of them are going to link out to similar sites, which will in turn link out to similar sites... Be prepared to have a lot of tabs open in your browser.
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Posted 01 March 2008 - 01:22 AM
QUOTE(prabhu @ Jan 29 2008, 11:40 PM)
How many directories should be used for a particular website to submit.
How much do you have?
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Posted 02 April 2008 - 12:53 PM
QUOTE(prabhu @ Jan 30 2008, 12:40 AM)
How many directories should be used for a particular website to submit. Is there any specified limit by the search engines, above which we should go.Please advice.
Quality (not quantity) of directories is of prior importance. My colleague set up an experiment - he submitted his site (PR4) to about 1500 webdirectories. Basically they were free, general directories with low PR (0-3). We were trying to guess whether this will increase PR of our site or not. We got no results. Another site we were submitting to niche directories only - it gave the results (PR 2 at one stroke).
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Posted 02 April 2008 - 03:49 PM
AST, if you were judging your experiment by whether your toolbar PageRank changed, then the experiment was flawed from the get-go.
Toolbar PR is only updated a few times a year. So when yours finally changed, it wouldn't have had anything to do with what link you just happened to get. It would have been the accumulated PR that you hadn't seen (in the toolbar) since the last update.
Toolbar PR is only updated a few times a year. So when yours finally changed, it wouldn't have had anything to do with what link you just happened to get. It would have been the accumulated PR that you hadn't seen (in the toolbar) since the last update.
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Posted 03 April 2008 - 10:08 AM
QUOTE(Jill @ Apr 2 2008, 03:49 PM)
AST, if you were judging your experiment by whether your toolbar PageRank changed, then the experiment was flawed from the get-go.
Toolbar PR is only updated a few times a year. So when yours finally changed, it wouldn't have had anything to do with what link you just happened to get. It would have been the accumulated PR that you hadn't seen (in the toolbar) since the last update.
Toolbar PR is only updated a few times a year. So when yours finally changed, it wouldn't have had anything to do with what link you just happened to get. It would have been the accumulated PR that you hadn't seen (in the toolbar) since the last update.
Maybe You are right. But the matter is that both of the sites had never been promoted/optimized before we decided to submit them to directories. One of the sites got PR4 due to random, free-will links from other sites. After a while, my colleague decided to increase its PR and frequency. I have already told what had happened after.
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