Directory Links - Are they useful?

killerkev06 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-10-2007, 05:33 AM

What I have collected so far on various forums is that only theme based links are considered by Google. What happens in case of directory links? My questions -

- How does Google identifies whether a directory link is theme based or not?
- Is it able to identify a particular category?
- If a link is submitted to relevant category despite the home page theme, does it gives weightage to such links?

I have found number of sites providing directory of links, even though the home page theme is very different. This is the reason of posting this query.

parusa619 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 07:04 PM

Answers:
- Only Google knows, but in my opinion, whenever Google crawls a site, once your link is detected, it would be counted as a backlink.
- Yes
- Yes, as long as the site is good

swapnil90 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-14-2007, 05:20 AM

They are useful if it has a good PR and enough traffic coming onto it...

kaisellgren · #4 (**permalink**) 03-30-2007, 03:37 PM

For some reason I feel it's better to get links from other's websites than placing your link into directories.

toinkzzz · #5 (**permalink**) 03-30-2007, 09:17 PM

yup... much appreciated if their in high PR directories... DMOZ is one of the directory site that is Hot!

temyong · #6 (**permalink**) 04-02-2007, 01:03 PM

As of now directories are still useful in terms of back links.

sufi · #7 (**permalink**) 04-11-2007, 09:15 AM

Directory links are definitely helpful. They pass the PR (if not using nofollow tags). If the inner categories and sub-categories also have PR then it is worth submitting to these directories. Niche directory links are also very powerful.

LennyP · #8 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 03:28 PM

Googles on site recommend submitting to quality directories. By nature they provide releative links through their category structure. Just avoid low quality directories. You can tell their quality by the types of sites that are alreay listed. Directories full of unrelated, low quality, ad heavy sites are what you want to avoid. Look for the ones with strong editorial quality.

moonswamp · #9 (**permalink**) 05-16-2007, 03:14 AM

submitting to directories is definitely useful~
every one said the high pr directories, but all the high PR is coming up from low PR, so don't spend time to choose high or low PR, sunbit them all, more backlinks = more pr and traffic!

megrisoft · #10 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 10:18 AM

Directory links are surly helpful as they not only pass PR but are also theme based and relevant.It is better if the links are in the most relevant category and varying anchor text are used.Directory links results in good backlinks and are less expensive as well.