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| Are directory Links still effective? |
| Posted: 01-05-2006 | Views: 13 |
| Author: Omar Vega |
A Lot of Search Engine Optimization
and Search Engine Marketing Professionals are voicing
their opinions and saying than directories are dead. But
remember, these are the people that also say that Page
Rank is dead, SEO is dead, and the latest this is dead
theory. So is directory link building no longer worthy?
well only the Search Engines can tell you for sure.
I believe the real issue with directory links is that
only some of them are good and worthy, while some others
are junk, being able to tell this difference is the key
between loosing your time and having a fruitful link building
campaign. How you can tell if a directory is good enough
or that you should pass it. Here are the 3 main criteria
of identifying a good directory from a bad one.
1) The director is listed in the Search Engines and most
pages are being crawled.
You can find the directory in the most popular search
engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. Also the category
pages of the directory are cached on the search engines,
if the directory offers detail pages, these should be
indeed too.
2) The links are plain text, no redirects or javascript.
Check the source code of the pages of the directory. Look
to see if the links are plain a href's, without the rel="nofollow"
attribute, and no sneaky redirects are present. By validating
all these you guarantee that these links are seeing and
counted by Search Engines.
3) Doesn't link to bad neighborhoods.
The directory doesn't link to questionable websites, specially
topics like gambling, casino adult, and illegal content
websites. Be very wary about directory that offers sitewide
likes to these type of sites.
Hopefully these guidelines will help you do more quality
link building campaigns getting links from quality web
directories.
The author of this articles is the webmaster of Offer
and Deals web directory. A clean quality web directory
with istings that provide 5 url/anchor combinations.
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free for republishing
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you can find information about prepaid credit cards and
a list of vendors that sell these credit crads over the
internet.
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