Comments on: SEO Project #1 – SEO – Paid Directory Submissions Work – Update #19

By: William

William — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:55:28 +0000

here is a blog article that purports to quote from matt cutts’ blog on the topic. this is from 2007, so a bit old. but i wanted a context this thread of discussions. the short answer is that paid directories are OK, like Yahoo and other ones that satisfy certain “guidelines”. but paid text links without editorial review are not. i believe this is the *principle*, but its *application* will not be perfect because there is no perfect technology to detect automatically and perfectly whether a paid directory is spammy or human edited short of artificial intelligence and espionage.

http://www.linkrain.com/articles/matt-cutts-says-paid-web-directory-links-are-ok/

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:55:24 +0000

I’m sure there aren’t many people using these directories. Direct traffic isn’t why I listed in the directory. I did it for a relevant link.

By: frontsoft

frontsoft — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:41:16 +0000

I don’t think anyone is using these free directories to find sites.

By: Elena

Elena — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:20:13 +0000

Hi Brent
I am coming with an update.
Not even a month ago I used joeant and clush for improving my website rank and visibility.
I paid less for joeant but am doing great. My site is shows in Google site link popularity. Clush is still not there. I used joeant for my other website http://www.sprudio.com and today I purchased for http://www.sprudio.net.
This was a great achievement. Thank you so much.

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:42:46 +0000

Hi Elena,

I just wrote what will be the first of a series of posts about your site. Thanks for the opportunity.

By: Elena

Elena — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:22:12 +0000

I take any help I can get. I want your help and I am open to advice. Please write a post about my website. I wrote a short one about yours and linked to your website from my blog long before you answered this one. I didn’t even knew how nice you are.
Ok contact me anytime and I am waiting for some advice. What i did wrong and what can I do better. Also the website that gets the most traffic and sales is the sister website: http://www.sprudio.net I will like to find the mistakes I made in that one too:-))
I am glad I found your blog.

By: Elena

Elena — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:20:54 +0000

I took your words and submitted my web page to JoeAnt.com. and Clush.com . I do not have other advertising on this website and I am testing your advice. If I will see improvement and traffic I will come back to update my information.
Thank you for posting your experience. It is very hard to find real good website that improve traffic and rank. I am already a rank 2 but I want quality traffic in Google. Hopes that i didn’t spent $60 for nothing.

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:44:58 +0000

Of course it is allowed. The real question is does it count.

The jury is really split on this one. Aaron Wall over at SEO Book recommends quality directory links.

Dan Thies another SEO professional I follow doesn’t. At least according to a statement he made back in 2004. Of course, SEO changes so frequently that Dan may have a different stance on this issue now. But if you check out the article below, you’ll see Dan made some interesting observations.

http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2004/01/22/is-a-yahoo-listing-worth

By: Windows Hosting

Windows Hosting — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:19:22 +0000

Is getting listed in directories allowed by google

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:15:57 +0000

@SEO Tips – I don’t think there is any way to pinpoint exactly how much any one thing benefits you SEO wise. There are just too many variables. Even if you change nothing else on your site, you can never be sure what the other sites around you may have changed that may be causing you to rank better or worse.