Who can guess why directories don't work?

**BrianMac** · 03-03-2009, 02:32 AM

Most all Directory services is an automated way of submitting to thousands of directories to link build. You will most likely get ZERO traffic from them. However, inlinks is the goal. If you are looking to get quality inlinks from a like Niche...

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**slavipz** · 03-06-2009, 04:31 AM

Originally Posted by Jenie0109

Most directories are considered link farms by Search engines therefore ignored and link are not counted. Only a few directories are seen as quality ones. Question is, how do we know if the directory we are submitting to is of quality or just a plain link farm.

There are some directories which are extremely helpful for your SERPS, especially if you are looking for fast indexing. The same way is about the Blogs. You can do a search with the term DOFOLLOW BLOGS in google and you will find many blogs that allow that. Then you need to start commenting, that get's you backlinks and if the blog is in the same niche... great.

**whitesidest** · 04-08-2009, 10:00 AM

I have been seeing a lot of link farms these days, and lots of real estate people buying space there. Just a tip, Google knows that these are disorganized link farms, so you won't get much page rank out of them.

**Andrews** · 06-03-2009, 12:54 AM

Hi friends i Think directories are work for us to increasing traffic on our site
but keep in mind only we listed our site in good pr web directories and good alexa ranking also.

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**jstevenson** · 06-04-2009, 08:27 AM

Most directories are of low quality and this is the main problem. Good directories do work, and I know this from personbal experience.

**bizcard** · 06-04-2009, 03:09 PM

The best approach to directory submission is through reciprocal links, if you choose free submission then it would take about 2 months to get approve, sometimes you won't even get approve.