As any good webmaster knows, the key to a successful site is lots of traffic, decent traffic that might find what is on your site interesting. To those ends yesterday I dedicated some time to updating my blog directory listings.
Blog Directories are just one way of increasing links and traffic flow to a blog. There are many thousands of them out there and probably not worth your time and effort to submit your site to hundreds of them.
I believe in organic SEO and therefore I am pathologically against paying for site listings and links. Apart from anything else, it puts you on a very dodgey position with the big search engines, that shun paid for linking services.
It got me wondering what the point of these blog directories is. Does anyone atcually use them to find blogs? My guess is not. The directories that came top of Google SERPS were generally poorly laid out and hard to use. I go the distinct impression that the only visitors are bloggers who are looking for a listing and an inbound link.
So is that all these blog directories are? Glorified link farms? Well, I guess so. It’s a shame really but then if a blog is worth its salt then it will be listed in Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. so who needs a blog directory anyway?
It would probably be better if the big search engines stopped putting any store in links from directories as they are not truly earned links and show nothing of value in the blog.
NB I should just add that Technorati does look as if it has value to internet users…but it was the only one!
What do you think?
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