Has submitting to directories helped your SERPS?

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if submitting to directories has helped your SERPS? I've read on the one hand that search engines afford little to no weight to directories and on the other that you should try to get a back link anywhere and everywhere you can. Has anyone experienced an increase in traffic on account of a directory submission campaign?

Thanks!

Let's just say it didn't hurt.

DigiXMAS is one of the easiest directory submitters to use. Think its about $10 per url for the full product. Life time use from what I have seen so far.
Plus they update the directories all the time. You dont get much if any traffic from the directory listings, but it all helps with your back links.

I am not sure how much they help in improving your rankings but they do help in building one way backlinks to your website and if you are lucky you could see some traffic coming as well.

SticKer

Originally Posted by Lee G

DigiXMAS is one of the easiest directory submitters to use. Think its about $10 per url for the full product. Life time use from what I have seen so far.
Plus they update the directories all the time. You dont get much if any traffic from the directory listings, but it all helps with your back links.

I thought google frowned on this sort of thing?

Well, directory submission is one of the link building activities which take time to show results. I don't think submitting to directories can help serps much. May be to some extent. But I do not find it much effective in terms of SERPS.

it's improved your back links as well as SERPS for your sites.
it's very useful weapon for Off Page SEO Tactics.

Submitting to directories has helped in increasing back links to my site.This in turn is also improving SERPS of the site.

I'm surprised to hear that directory submissions still bestow an SEO benefit via backlinks. I would have thought that Google would discount links from most directories heavily as compared to links from other types of sites since most directories are either link farms or pay for inclusion link farms, which Google presumably likes even less.

Yes if you are doing relevant directory submission in the site then it will generate back link so directly it will helpful in the search engine result page so your site will get good rank.

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All links help some links help a lot, others very little help. As there are more links the better. But how you get links is an art, if you have a good strategy to add links can bepenalized
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it wouldn't hurt a thing, it will also increase backlinks too

ofcourse yes the directories helps a lot

It depends on the directory where you submit the website. If it having a good PR, then it can help in improving the ranking of keywords, but if you are submitting in directories which are full of spam, it may hurt the rankings. Just do 10 submissions in quality directories every day. It will be helpful.

Any link is important for your site, but power of link depind of domain authority of the web directory