I am taking lot of pains in submitting my site to relevant pages of various directories. Not sure though it really helps in terms of:-
1. Page rank
2. Traffic.
Can some on here advice.

What kind of website? if it's a blog then use submit you content to social bookmark sites like delicious,stumbleupon,etc.

The purpose of submitting your site to this directory or social bookmark is to create a "back link" to your website. It means search engine bots will find the link to your website faster when they crawl all these popular website. Apart from submitting to these directories, you can also use iGoogle and MyYahoo to put a back lnk to your website. Also make sure to use Google Webmaster Tool and Google Analytic to further improve your traffic.

p/s: be careful though submitting your website to black listed website will also affect your ranking. Another thing, for Google, there is something called "Google Sandbox". You can read about it here.

It does help, a bit or may be.

The truth is, search engine optimization doesn't place much emphasize on directory submission anymore. Try social bookmarking instead

Thanks for advice. I have been thinking of it. Can you advice on some suitable locations to learn about social bookmarking, ie what it is and how best be done.
Can it be used for all category of sites?
Regards

social bookmarking = technorati, reddit, delicious etc, there are a whole bunch of it out there, and i think facebook is one of them as well though i nvr use it before

yes, social bookmark can help you to get traffic.

additional option - digg, propeller, lipstick, ximmy...

Hi, Actually I do not know how it is done, what is to be done. like we go to directory, fill a form for a request for addition, so what we do here.

Look at the page rank of the directory itself... if it's high means they may have many visitors... so it may refer some traffic to your site.

As for your own Page Rank....... I don't think it will help much as Google may not put much emphasis on links in directories.

Furthermore, the directories themselves may not even really "vote" for your site.... the link to your site are "NON-VOTING" links (because, i think most of the directory scripts put the rel="nofollow" attribute to the links.... which Google will NOT put into consideration in ranking your site)......... to make sure, you'll have to check the individual directories yourself.

Look at the page rank of the directory itself... if it's high means they may have many visitors... so it may refer some traffic to your site.

Thanks for your useful input.
Does page rank mean traffic?

As for your own Page Rank....... I don't think it will help much as Google may not put much emphasis on links in directories.

Do we have any google saying on it (if you could refer to url)?

Furthermore, the directories themselves may not even really "vote" for your site.... the link to your site are "NON-VOTING" links (because, i think most of the directory scripts put the rel="nofollow" attribute to the links.... which Google will NOT put into consideration in ranking your site).........

Can you please name a directory using this method?


to make sure, you'll have to check the individual directories yourself.

Can you advice on how to check it.




Thanks once again for your input

Page Rank is not same as traffic ranking ........ but if a site is highly ranked means it has lotsa inbound links which we can conclude will bring more traffic as well.

For a diectory example, see the popular BlogCatalog ... go to any category and any listing ......... for example this >> http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/derrichcom.html ........ right click and view source......There's a link to this site http://www.derrich.com ......but the link has the rel="nofollow" attribute.

So, if you want to know, you'll have to go the directory of your choice, and view the source to see how links are constructed

I just only use stumble, already bring me alot of traffic, but i am using some sideway

Well YOU GET BACK LINKS FROM DIRECTORIES AND IT HELPS

READ MORE WHAT GOOGLE SAYS ABOUT BACK LINKS !

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