Do you that there’s a big problem when it comes to building links with web directories? You might submit your blog to all 1000 web directories but not all of them are going to give you a backlink!
You might get around 200 backlinks from web directories because:
Reason #1: Web directories did NOT guarantee you that you’ll get a backlink. When you submit your blog, they say that they will only consider creating a link and it’s not a promise. We can complaint much about that because these web directories are built to make money and they are not public services.
Reason #2: Google are not counting that link. This is slightly complicated, so give me sometime to explain it…
When the web directory decided to link to your blog, they will first create a simple page with some description of your blog. Next, they put a link in that page that links to your blog. They did link to your blog, but Google don’t know anything about it. Maybe their page is too sneaky that Google can’t find them. Or maybe their web directories don’t have a high PR that gets Google visit their website often and crawl deeper.
The Solution To These Problems Are:
1. Don’t rely on web directories too much.
2. Focus some of your time on article directories. Articles that are submitted to article directories will be indexed much faster because they are content and the directory owners want to some traffic with your articles.
3. Social bookmark the page that contains your link. This is a method that forces Google to index that page. It is not recommended because Social Bookmarking Sites doesn’t like it.
Use more link building resources and don’t depend entirely on web directories.
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I always found social bookmarking a great way to build links as long as you do it correctly (don’t get banned). Having a link from Digg (a high PR site) really seems to help my own site and it pretty easy to do.
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There are few potential problems when you rely on social bookmarking:
Problem #1: Backlinks look very artificial because it seems like all of them are from social bookmarking and no other sites. Google will immediately suspect that you are trying to manipulate their search results.
Problem #2: From what I know, there are only a few hundred of social bookmarking sites. Which means that you can get few hundreds of backlinks at maximum. That is not enough rank for competitive keywords. Which means that you might not be getting traffic from high-traffic-keywords.
Blend you link building resources with others such as web directories, article directories and dofollow blog will help you to get higher ranking faster and easier!
ok,this mean , write more article to get more backlinks.. nice.. straight forward. I like it
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Yes, there are a lot of directories out there and they are gradually becoming less worth submitting to for the reasons you outline.
However they haven’t run out of juice yet, and they are definitely still worth submitting to occasionally.
Here’s a good place to find new ones:
http://www.vmoptions.com/directory-list.php
@newbieblogger,
It’s not just about submit more articles. It’s about understanding the theory of the problem of web directories when it comes to link building. This is a similar problem with article marketing and other link building methods too!
Ya. Some of them are worth submitting especially those that are higher than pagerank 3.
The reason why Google ignores backlinks from 1000 of web directories can be:
1. Google considers that the web directory is used for spamming activities and so ignores the whole site.
2. After the “nofollow” myth, most directories have implemented the “nofollow” attribute and therefore the backlink you have does not count for rankings.
One good site for getting free high quality backlinks is qassia. Check it out and you’ll be amazed. If you want to know more about the “nofollow” atribute, I have written an article about this that can explain why backlinks do not always count.
Great post. Very informative
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Thanks for dropping by. I really appreciate that. You gave 2 good reasons too. However, the web directories that I mean here are dofollow directories which is in my list of 1000 web directories. Most (90%)of them are dofollow.
Thanks for explaining some nofollow details. In fact, I already have few post explaining nofollow and dofollow stuff.
Another thing is “nofollow” links are counted as well by Google. These are the experiments that are done by me and some experts. It helps but not as much as dofollow links. Nowadays, it is important to have both nofollow and dofollow links to your blog because it looks natural to Google. Having only dofollow links will get your blog penalized very fast.