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Furthermore, if you have a subpage that ranks for Widget, this page could have a PageRank of 0 although the frontpage has PageRank 2. Make sure that inbound links for Widget goes directly to the appropriate subpage for Widget.
Hope that helps
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It is very unwise to assess directories on PR alone, and even less wise EVER to post reciprocal links to directories.
Stick to Quality directories, and you will get a 'kick start' - which you seem to have got. Then move on ...
Remember Quadrille's Oft-Quoted Sixth Law:
Never submit to directories; submit to Quality Directories - and know the difference
... and a few more.
But if you look at a Quality directory, having seen a few score cr*p ones, you'll know when you see it!
- evidence of human editing
- few (preferably no) sites in inappropiate categories
- no obvious spam sites
- no request for reciprocal links (not even a hint!)
- Little link rot
- Sites well categorised, so you don't find 250 pages of sites under one huge, broad category such as "travel".
- Unique design, because this is a sign that someone cares about the directory
- Many directories have a page of "latest links", which can give you an indication of how recently it was edited and whether it's still being actively maintained.
In my perspective, link building is a tough game now days, you have to be very smart while doing it, search engine can easily counter the artificially inflated links.
Anyways, the bottom line is that aggressive PR building practices are actually harming the websites these days,
I suggest you that go for relevant one way link building with different titles and description and yes don’t forget to embed the potential keywords in title and descriptions.
Always keep in mind that link must look natural.. i know it is easy to say but difficult to do cause I have been doing since 98 and seen lot of changes.
[edited by: Learning_Never_Ends at 11:54 am (utc) on April 25, 2008]
In the end, google gives no respect to the directories specially aiming paid links and or the links created artificially. Please read the google guidelines and also visit google webmaster area where you can see paid link reporting, link spamming reporting, etc.
thanks,
bilal
You often heard that webmasters offers seo friendly web directories. Have you ever experienced what that means? they meant that these directories and their categories will be followed by a link with follow tag instead of nofollow. But google can eaisly read such inflated links and can eaisly extracted from. So I again submitted that If you want to get pure SE listing, then you have to struggle in making unique content.
RSS feeds, ATOMs, and Social bookmarking is a choice of smart people:)and I personally recommended the same.by the experts. I used such techniques on my clients websites and got favorable results.
Thanks,
Bilal
If you have a decent site, there is nowhere better to get a kick start.
RSS feeds, ATOMs, and Social bookmarking all have a role - but mostly will have very, very small seo value. For a genuinely good site, you'll not lose anything by submitting to a quality directory. And you may gain a lot.
SEO is a long-term activity; farting around with "web 2.0" (yecch!) has very, very little long term value.
I have no disagreement with the previous two posters as a generalisation - but Quality directories still have a serious SEO role. The trick is to know the difference between a Quality directory and a cr*p one - that's a serious distinction.
Well said and very accurate Quadrille. There are still directories out there worth being in, but less than I can count on my fingers and toes :)
My advice is to think 'Trust', and then determine how a directory would become trusted in Google (domain age, inbound links, types and quality of links, etc)
Those directories are always worth being listed in.
