Hi members
This is Nazia wants to know about the extent at which the manula directory submission is helpful to SEO

Waiting for your suggestions

Nazia

Directories are mostly useless as Google knows that they aren't 'real' links. Your best bet is to submit to directories that are for your targeted niche only (if you have a golf site, submit to a golf website directory). The Yahoo directory and DMOZ are always good to submit to though.

Thank you for your suggestion
It will be really helpful for me

Nazia

Directories can help target your keywords. You'll have to get better links to rank for them though.

Directory submissions are generally useless as far as ranking is concerned, but it's a good way to build up a sheer number of backlinks.

I am quite skeptical to your claims. Care to add some solid proof or a good article from a reputable site about such claims? I would like to read them

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Thanks to all for the reply to my post but i m also agree with MrCat that if you say directory submission is useless then how can you say this?

Logical knowledge of modern SEO just says that they are mostly useless. I would like to point out that most directories are not even fully indexed and so search engines might not even know about a link that is months old. Even if Google did index that page, the page still has very little power because no other sites are linking to it and even if they were it is even further unlikely that they have any relevance to your site, which is what matters. Yes, some the main page of many directories has PageRank and so it passes it down to your category, but your still missing the relevance (not only because the page has no real content, but no relevant links are pointing to that page). Submitting to tons of directories might slightly increase your site's PR, but PR is absolutely meaningless except if you want to sell links. Getting rankings on Google comes from relevant links, which assure Google that your site is what you say it is. Website directories are really a thing of the past, like meta tags.

We have to keep on submitting you site directory list because directory submission gives backlinks to the site...

Well as much as google knows that directory links are not real links they haven't made the value of directory links 'zero'. Earlier I used to get PR4 for my websites (with some good serp benefit too) just by submitting to directories on any popular list. Last year I could get only PR3 for one of my sites (just by directory submissions) and is ranking number 3 for a decently competitive phrase. I would try that again with one of my new websites and see how useful directories are this year.