Should I dicard them in my SEO estrategy?
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Hi there! Some of you guys told me that I shouldn't concede too much priority to the directories in my linkbuilding stratregy. But should I incorpore it (In case it has a little impact in SERPs) or directly discard it as it has NO influence at all, what would it be more important quantity or quality? Could it have more impact a directory with PR 7 as 100 directories of PR 3 or below?
Thanks
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Thanks Jeremy for your quick reply.
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thanks Don for your valuable reply
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Hello Juan,
Jeremy pretty much nailed the answer.
The background information is that for a long time web guys were creating directory sites by the droves and linking them to their sites (creating a link ring). If a directory became high page value then they could charge to include other sites. This was a tactic used to gain money / or artificially inflate the value or their own websites. Google is much smarter today and gives no value to these sub-par directories.
However, all directory sites aren't bad. There are good ones out there, that manually review every site for quality, or are contributors to industry specific information. For example, Manufacturing, Thomasnet.com is huge and many OEM's use it to find suppliers. Dmoz.org does still offer some value as every site listed has been manually reviewed. Joant.com is another one.
In short you shouldn't disregard directory listings. You should evaluate them before wasting your time submitting your site.
Here are some questions:
Does the site look spammy (prominent ads)? Does the site have a high domain authority? Are my competitors listed there? Would I ever use this site to find something? Does the site add value to the web (articles, how to's etc..).
Hope this helps,
Don
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Hi Juan,
Are you asking if you should discard Link Building from your SEO strategy? I say no.
Should you discard low pr links from non related sites? I say yes
Should you discard links from high pr related sites? I say no
Should you create informative, useful content on high pr sites with lots of search visablity? Definitely.
My views, very interested in everyone elses
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