Are Web Directories Useful for Top Search Engine Rankings

There are many webmaster forums like digitalpoint.com, sitepoint.com webmaster-talk.com etc where daily hundreds of people announce their new web directories which are mostly based on phpld script which offers a free version too. Now lets get into detail if these kind of stuff is helpful to the users or not.
Gii Web DirectoryFirst of all what matter is a Quality Inbound Link from different websites which are related to your niche. Which means that a backlink from a related website even of less pagerank would be helpful to your blog when compared to a link from a very high page rank website of a irrelevant niche. In case of Web Directories the situation is quite different because these are the websites which organize all the websites on the web in different categories. Now getting listed on these relevant categories is useful because these are quality related backlinks to your websites.
In the recent years, most website directories are considered to be bad and if your website is listed on these your website can even get penalized which is the reason you should decide and research a lot before getting listed into them. There is no point submitting your website to thousands of web directories and getting listed in those , whose pages are not even indexed in the search engines, also these new directories would not have any quality backlinks which means that its a total waste of time getting listed into these.
Finding a Good Web Directory :I would personally suggest submitting your websites to directories which are established ie which were launched years back and which are still running on the same goal of organizing different websites. These can be helpful to your websites rankings and using the right Anchor Text on these web directories in order to rank in the top of the search engines. Considering Page Rank of the directory while submitting is not the right criteria because the Page Rank would go to 0 anytime and there is no guarantee about this, hence taking PR as a single criteria while submitting is wrong. You need to check out the buzz about the directly all over the web, the backlinks to these directories using Yahoo! & Google linkdomain queries, the Alexa or Compete Rank to know if these directories get some decent traffic.
In the year 2006 i started a web directory called as globle internet index which has around 6000 different categories and a lot of information we have posted on different blogs under this website in order to help the visitors find the right information. At gii.in there are different listing options ranging from free to paid because the website approval does take some time & efforts in order to review them and there is no point in running a free web directory and then closing it at the end of the year while domain expires. There are many other good web directories which have been up from few years like botw.org, dir.yahoo.com , dmoz etc which are really worth submitting to.
Gii Web Directory
This post is regarding the web directories which list different websites and dont confuse yourself with the Blog Directories which are specifically for Web Blogs, we will write more about Blog Directories soon. Stay Tuned!


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