Diretory Submission vs Social Bookmarking

[jatinder]

Which is the best technique to rank the website in Google among directory and social bookmarking?

 

[SEOPub]

Social bookmarking is useless for SEO.

Directories can be good if you are picking the right ones, generally the paid ones are best.

 

[rwsorensen]

rwsorensen

How to choose right ones? could you share your experience in choosing these?

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

They need to be moderated.

If they say anything about PageRank, high quality links, boosting rankings, or any other SEO buzz words, stay away.

Botw.org, STPT.com, and businss.yahoo.com are pretty good examples of directories you want to be in.

 

[amitncode]

amitncode

Apart from the paid ones, I know instant approval directories are the ones which you should avoid. But the ones which are moderated and asking for moderation time are good or bad?

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

If they are heavily moderated, they might be okay. If they accept crummy affiliate websites in their directory, I would stay away. If the majority of the listings look like legitimate business sites, it might be worthwhile. You have to dig in and look around a little bit.

 

[jatinder]

Good Answer. Thanks sir

 

[escapeadvertising]

Thanks SEOpub,
Is their any other way which we get good back link to promote the site on search engine?

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

Sure. Buy links. Beg for links. Trade for links. Build your own sites to create links off of.

 

[Hometutor]

Hometutor

This is kind of how my mind has always worked. If I need it, others do to so how can I profit from it by helping others. Hope I'm making sense it's getting late here.

Rick

 

[escapeadvertising]

Buy link? i read in the article that buying a link from other website count as spam and building a own site is not going ranked down because of same referring IP?

Thanks

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

Well, whoever wrote that article you read is clearly an idiot. Half the internet runs on bought links, and the IP address does not play a role in strength of a link.

Now if you are building a big private network, you want to put the sites on different IP addresses, but that has NOTHING to do with impacting the strength of the links. That is to make it less obvious to search engines that the entire network of sites is owned by the same entity.

 

[Judas2018]

It's gotten harder and harder these days to find good, quality web directories to get your site listed to. Mostly because a lot of them have overseers who are hardly there to man these pages. Even if you get listed, you'd have to pay for a spot or wait a long time before your site is at the front of the list. It depends sometimes on what system these directory overseers run.

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

Having to pay for a spot is not a bad thing.

 

[Judas2018]

Judas2018

If the directory in question is solid, and provides a quality link that search engines will pick up regularly? Sure. But there are also sub-par or average directories that way overcharge you to place a link on their site. Might want to avoid those. If your wallet is going to take a modest hit for buying link placement, best get it done at one of the top flight directories. Money well spent versus money wasted.

 

[AffGonzo]

social bookmarking is good for indexing a page.
If its good content, then social signals are always nice.

But as most said. No link juice gets passed with no-follow bookmarks.
Directory links are not the most prized links these days though.

Still grab some, just aim to build a wider range of links.
Forums, and guest posts tend to work well for me.

 

[edwardkenway]

These two things are very useful for your website, but in the way of priority bookmarking is very effective. Directory submission also very good for page ranking up. If you take a number for bookmarking it'll get 85 out of 100 and for directory submission it'll get 80. these two are very important but in the site priority bookmarking will go first.

 

[Naksh]

Since i see that @SEOPub is recommending paid directory submissions then i would like to know if they still work as i have heard that directories are almost dead while social bookmarking works if done on high PR sites like reddit, stumble upon, tumblr and like.

 

[foxconnservices]

Directory Submission is very good strategy for off-page seo but maximum Directory Submission Sites are paid for review. On the other hand Social bookmarking, Now day it is very effective strategy to get high rank on search engines and get more traffic for a website.

 

[linconcley]

Directory is backdated methods in seo, but it worked fine. Maybe paid version of directory submission can work to make backlinks. As an off page method it was so nice, but everyday methods are getting changes. And bookmarking in social media is working yet, it is also a platform for making good backlink of a website.

 

[SEOPub]

SO, you are centered towards paid submissions? Are you adopting the same paid strategy to gain links?

When appropriate, yes.