When Submitting Your Blog to a Directory - What do You Look For?

[Bloggeries]

When Submitting Your Blog to a Directory - What do You Look For?

I'm always curious what makes someone choose one directory over another and would love to hear your thoughts

[evelester]

i look for no follow tags in the directory, and page rank

[kiviniar]

I will not say exposure as i have experienced very less traffic via directories listings.

So if i am submitting, i would basically looks for how much SERP values it would add to my submitted site

I guess the next generation directories would be able to deliever exposure, but i guess i will be a while

[Goongee]

I look for indexed pages and a relevant category to the subject matter.

[Bloggeries]

Wow, NOFOLLOW on a directory. That is just shameful. Those doing that give the entire directory industry a black eye.

Personally I don't get that much traffic from directories either. I look for powerful sites that SE's will put weight on the link from it. Some directories give me more traffic than others but like Kivinar said I use them for SERP's so your choice of anchor text is paramount. Unfortunately I kinda rushed into it and have lots of anchors doing nothing for me... Time to email a few dir owners in the near future.

[evelester]

Originally Posted by Bloggeries

Wow, NOFOLLOW on a directory. That is just shameful. Those doing that give the entire directory industry a black eye.

yeah, I was so shocked when I saw that, I have found several that do that, and dont tell you, I use the firefox plugin that lets you highlite no follow links on any webpage

[Qurratulain]

Exposure of the Directory
Page Rank (categories)
Page Strength

[Bloggeries]

I have to start adding more plugins to my firefox! Thanks for notifying me about that ever so useful plugin

Originally Posted by evelester

yeah, I was so shocked when I saw that, I have found several that do that, and dont tell you, I use the firefox plugin that lets you highlite no follow links on any webpage

[Bloggeries]

Those are all things that I looked for as well. Although I don't trust the PS tool so much anymore unfortunately. I really loved it when it first came out and sorta worked.

Originally Posted by Qurratulain

Exposure of the Directory
Page Rank (categories)
Page Strength

[evelester]

if you need the link- it is search Status 1.21 once it is installed you will see a @ sign on the bottom toolbar, along with the sites PR, alexa, and compete scores. you just right click on the @ sign and choose to highlight no-follow links- on any page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/321