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I'm interested but do directory submissions actually make a difference in page rank? Most people make it sound like this can hurt your site if Google catches on.

[quote=NewEntree]I'm interested but do directory submissions actually make a difference in page rank? Most people make it sound like this can hurt your site if Google catches on. [/quote]

They're legitimate tactic as long as you don't abuse it, that is have most of your incoming links come from low-quality directories. For new sites I would stay away from directory submission services, it could trigger a penalty if you suddenly get tons of new links from directories

Atlanta, I'm actually looking into directory submissions and yes, my website is new. I guess my question would be "what is the cutoff, per se, for links from directory submissions." It would be more to my liking if it was less of an absolute number and more of a ratio.

For example, 2 directory links to 1 good link.

BillW, directory links have become increasingly obsolete due to the low quality of the pages on which the links typically reside and the high amount of outgoing links. There are only a handful of directories worth having on your link profile (i.e. DMOZ, Yahoo, JoeAnt). By the way, this is merely my opinion based on experience and somewhat of a general consensus within the SEO community.

IMHO, most directory links will not help page rank, but then page rank is not that important.

Low quality directory links can help you if the directory lets you use anchor text in the link. But for this to work you have to mix up the anchor text and the accompanying ad, which I doubt the submission services can do for such a low cost. You also have to check to see if the page your link will reside on is cached, which means it is crawled.

There are no penalties for off site links so do not be afraid whether your site is new or old. If penalties existed for bad links to your site then it would be easy to rise to the top by getting bad links to your competitors and taking them out.

I would love to know that for myself, but like for most things in SEO there's no exact number that you should not cross.

@Maui - based on my experience they do help you, directory submissions alone have helped me rank 10-20 places for a keyphrase I was targeting. They were useful for a second site I helped opimizing for Google too.

When you see countless examples of competitors ranking on top spots but using tactis like heavy link exchanges that the SEO community deems as dead, you pretty much start to question the validity of their claims. I'm not saying they are wrong in every aspect, just that sometimes they are in a hurry to label something as useless

And you hit it on the head. It seems like link exchanging (or link farming) has become the standard in real estate. Now the strategy is to create 4 parallel blogs and link all 4 to each other. SEO experts swear against this, but it appears to be working.

It would be nice to see more real estate professionals working on their own blogs and building their own small business versus supporting conglomerates (which I won't mention).

Atlanta guy, as directories have worked for you, what was the ratio (directory links vs. other links) that worked? Has this strategy worked in successfully SEO'ing a real estate site?

Two years ago I helped launching a local real estate classes website. The website had a couple of very valuable incoming links from authoritative websites in real estate (PR 6) and a few more from local search directories (Google Local, Yahoo! Local, etc.). It had a PR of 1. We didn't worry about SEO at that time, only started about a year later by submitting the site to lots of directories (all free), and as I recall it was accepted to at least 30-40. Its PR increased immediately to 3 and we saw an improvement in rankins too.

You might argue that in this case it didn't hurt getting tons of directory links because the site had some (natural) links coming from highly authoritive websites. This might be true, but the links helped nonetheless and I didn't felt it was a waste of time.

A second example, the site that currently sits in my signature. I started optimizing it for search with directory submissions. It got approved in about 20 in the first month or so. It didn't had at that time many other incoming links. PR didn't change, but it jumped from 55th spot for a keyprhase to 32nd. It didn't hurt in the long ron either, as after 5 months it ranks on the 12th spot for that key phrase, so a 43 places improvement.

Remember, these experts make their money doing what we are trying to learn from them for free. Of course they are not going to give us all their secrets and they are going to bad mouth techniques that work. It's called job security.

Can you show some examples of how much improvement there was for the site that you have done the directory submission service for?