The Importance of Listing Your Website in Directories

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For any business, organization or an individual seeking to be relevant on the internet, they need to create a website. But having a website may not be sufficient. In that regard, to gain better Web presence and consequently attract more potential consumers to your website, it is high time to enhance your web site. There is a way to achieve this and this includes listing your website in directories like Ranked Top Sites.

Website directories like Ranked Top Sites is specially an arranged lists or databases containing information about websites grouped according to their subject matter, the field, or even the region they belong to.

Ranked Top Sites offer one-stop-shop locations to where users can search for and learn about new websites, commodities and services. When you submit your site to an appropriate website directory you will not only boost the number of visitors that you get to your site but also rank higher on a search engine.

 

[Nomad]

I really doubt submitting your links on web directory actually work for SEO. You do get some traffic though

 

[Cpvr]

I really doubt submitting your links on web directory actually work for SEO. You do get some traffic though

They still work. It’s still a beneficial tool of building backlinks.

Each directory passes pagerank and link juice to your site. The more directories that your site is listed on, the better off it’ll be.

Especially if the directory is relevant to your site.

 

[Nomad]

Aren't link directories treated as link farm by search engines. Most directories provide no-follow links, right?

 

[magnus2022]

Google consider most of these directories as link farm and have taken strong proactive measure against them. Presently, i don't know the Google stands on this web directories but you need to make proper investigationsl before adding your site there.

 

[Cpvr]

Aren't link directories treated as link farm by search engines. Most directories provide no-follow links, right?

It really depends on the quality of the directory. Search engines are smart enough now to distinguish between a legitimate, well-moderated niche directory and a spammy link farm.

Directories that are curated, relevant, and not overloaded with outbound links aren’t seen as link farms. The shady ones with thousands of random, low-quality links? Yeah, those get flagged.



Also, not all directories use no-follow. There are still do-follow directories out there—you just have to vet them properly. It’s all about being selective and strategic, not mass-submitting to anything and everything.

Keep in mind, the search engines treat “nofollow” as a hint and will still follow those particular links.

Evolving "nofollow" – new ways to identify the nature of links | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

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When nofollow was introduced, Google would not count any link marked this way as a signal to use within our search algorithms. This has now changed. All the link attributes—sponsored, ugc, andnofollow—are treated as hints about which links to consider or exclude within Search. We'll use these hints—along with other signals—as a way to better understand how to appropriately analyze and use links within our systems.

Why not completely ignore such links, as had been the case with nofollow? Links contain valuable information that can help us improve search, such as how the words within links describe content they point at. Looking at all the links we encounter can also help us better understand unnatural linking patterns. By shifting to a hint model, we no longer lose this important information, while still allowing site owners to indicate that some links shouldn't be given the weight of a first-party endorsement.