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Directories are NOT Dead!

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Are you serous, directories are dead?

Directories are as a vital to the Internet as the Internet it's self.

How do you think Google and other SE find out about new websites. They use directories to help them crawl.

Not to mention the SEO benefits of a directory. How many of you out there pay a monthly fee to have your link displayed on another website?

Every successful webmaster currently does and or has done it I guarantee it.

Let's say you pay 15.00 to 25.00 per month for a PR5 backlink on a NON directory website.

Doesn't seem like such a bad deal until you add it up.

15.00 - 25.00 x 12 = 180.00 - 300.00 per year

Not take a directory review or donation submission for example. Some are yearly and some are permanent with prices ranging from 10.00 up to 75.00 for a editor review.

Seems like a much better deal to me to pay at the most 75.00 a year verse 180.00 - 300.00 for a PR5 link.

Check the links below, this is what happened after one PR update (all PR5 detail pages). Not to mention the fact that you have an additional link from the category you are listed in.

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-743.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-767.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-755.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-761.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-760.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-763.html

The above is just a quick sample.

Not everyone is able to create stong backlinks through traditional link baiting.

Directories are a great addition to any link building strategy.

When I see a webmaster willing to pay for a directory review, I see a webmaster who cares about building a successful website.

You say directories are dead I say they are just reaching maturity.

Although I do feel differently about deeplink directories which you can read on my blog.

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Directories Losing Pagerank

It looks like the dust is starting to settle from our most recent pagerank update.

As you can see we made out quite well earning many high ranked pages. Other directories didn't fare as well.

I have a theory about why some of these directories took such a hard hit.

As you know a directory is essentially a website that USUALLY does not have much content and has many outgoing links. (Notice we have many blogs and other info. to keep us unique)

Of course most directories owners will promote their directory and try to gain as many high pagerank backlinks as they can. Now that's great and that is what they should be doing but I feel that many directory owners are shooting themselves in the foot!

I am sure you all have seen "deeplink directories" or a directory that offers you an option to add your home page and anywhere from 3-5 other links from your website.

Now this looks like a great opportunity to the submitter but is it really?

What's happening is that for every one website that a webmaster submits he is really getting 4-6 backlinks.

So, that's 4-6 outgoing links or holes for the pagerank to leak out of the directory.

You many think that is a good thing for you but it's not really.

I am willing to bet if you took 10 directories that do not offer deep links and 10 that do the PR on the non deeplink directory details page is much higher than the one that accepts deep links.

Take an example from this directory. All the links below were submitted to a PR4 category and have PR5 detail pages.

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-743.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-767.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-755.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-761.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-760.html

http://www.danielmillions.com/detail/link-763.html

The above was just a small sample from the directory category but you should get the picture. We only allow one outgoing link and this greatly helps to retain the directories pagerank integrity.

Instead on having a backlink on a deeplink directory that has 4-6 outgoing links and a pagerank of 1-3 on the details page you have a single strong PR5 backlink.

The directory is not leaking out nearly as much pagerank as a deeplink directory does.

A directory that does not offer deeplinks is able build many times more backlinks than it has outgoing. Thus keeping the PR juice in the directory providing a high quality backlink.

You will find some deeplink directories that have a great pagerank, there are some. But how sustainable in the long term is this?

When you have literally thousands of outgoing links from deeplinks it's like shooting holes in a boat.

You can stay a float by bailing out the water or getting more incoming links but eventually you are going to sink.

It's a loosing battle if you were to ask me.

There are just to many out going links and you can't build the incoming links fast enough.

...but hey that's just my theory.

Directories Losing Pagerank

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