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I`ve never believed in the idea of just submitting to every directory you can find. So many of them just cover "General" areas, and don`t stand out from any other directory. I`ve never seen them send much traffic, if any, to any sites I`ve worked on.

Niche directories can be viewed differently, as they are pretty much covering only the topics/subjects which are the same as your site, so you have a rather focused audience visiting the directory.

In essence, getting listed in one niche directory will probably be more beneficial for your site than getting listed in 100 general directories.

Good post, Dale.



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Hi Dale,

I agree that submitting to a bunch of directories won`t dramatically impact your rankings but I have used the tactic to get clients listed fast.  Sometimes we will build a site and they need atleast their website name in Google within a week for a promotion...directory submission can help.

Also, sometimes if you need to bump out some of your competitors directory submission to sub-domains, or social networking profiles, or other mini sites may also do the trick if keywords are not too competitive.

Think of it like this...handing out flyers on New York City about your new restaurant won`t do anything...but hand out those same flyers in a small town...that may be all you need for fast & cheap results.

Jeff



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The answer was perfectly delivered in this article 10 SEO Myths Debunked that SearchEngineWatch linked to.

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I also agree with all you but we can`t ignore directory submission completely. Somewhere directory submission is also very important. We need it.

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Directory submission helps SEO "indirectly". Depending on where and how it is submitted, can help back linking. Back linking is "good". The more back linking, the better and higher results.

But as you said, it is not the end all strategy.

As we know, SEO is about "many" tactics... directory submission is one of many tactics (but happens to be on a low priority scale). Especially, since the search engine algorithms now exclude much of the directories in getting the rankings higher. Obviously because of the marketers in the early days who abused this tactic.



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