What is the best dofollow directory for seo

I have been trying to submit to really high authority sites, directory sites. I do not want to make any mistakes. I have a great domain rating for a small business. 47. Any help would be appreciated.

The best ones don’t allow people to submit their own site because search engines ignore any link that has been submitted by the site owner.

2 Likes

Not so long ago there was a member that had submitted to a few directories hoping to get backlinks from the effort.

To his dismay, the directories came up in the SERPs better than his site.

Some of the ones that linked back to the site were “nofollow”.
And the others linked to other pages within the directory site not his.
And the other pages also included competitor sites.

So if the goal is possible traffic, well, maybe.
If the goal is backlinks, it’s time to catch up with the present and forget about outdated SEO shenanigans.

Put your time and efforts into having a site others will want to link to on their own initiative.

7 Likes

Why don’t you search on Google with the similar keyword? You will find a list of do follow directory for SEO.

I’m sure you will. Whether they will be “the best”, as the OP asks, is another matter.

As felgall has already pointed out:

And reputable directories will mark user-submitted links nofollow, in accordance with Google’s guidelines, so they will have no effect on SEO.

Which doesn’t mean that they can’t bring real visitors to your site - it just means that the search engines ignore them.

Sometimes I think people concentrate so hard on trying to get the highest search engine rankings that they completely forget that the end objective is to get real people to visit.

5 Likes

Most of the high PR directories gives nofollow to the external links.

You can submit in Dmoz.com, it a popular human edited directory website.

Also I suggest you to search local listing website like Truelocal, Yellow Pages, These website improve your local presence .

PageRank (PR) is calculated per page, not per site, so directories advertised as “high PR” may have a high PR home page, but internal pages (where your link would appear) are likely to be much lower.

Of course, as Google has long since stopped issuing public updates for PR, nobody other than Google knows for sure what a page’s PR actually is. Any information available is going to be very out-of-date.

4 Likes

It not like that, some times page rank of inner page may be higher than home page. Its completely depend from where your page is getting the backlink.

Currently the page rank is official closed, else you can check the directory page rank of inner page and home page.

That’s true; and for a directory site, I would expect the home page to have more incoming links than internal directory pages, and therefore a higher PR. My point is that PR varies from page to page; you can’t refer to a high PR site.

Sorry - I don’t understand your point here. There are no official public updates to PR being issued, so there is no accurate way to check the PR of any page on any site. More recent sites may be highly-regarded by Google, but have no PR information available. It’s no longer a metric which should be used to judge the quality of a site.

1 Like

Directory submission is a procedure of adding webpage or website URL to a web catalog. directory submission are most reasonable type of dofollow third party referencing. High page rank dofollow directory site can expand the perceivability of a site in internet searcher results pages (SERP).

Dofollow link - the dofollow links are connections that consider focuses, pushing ‘link juice’ and boosting the pr of the connected to sites, helping them go higher in the internet searcher results pages.

but only if the site doesn’t provide a way for people to add links to their own site.

You may get an immediate benefit but once the search engines discover that you added the link yourself they will disregard the link. Sites are supposed to mark these links as nofollow to make it easier for the search engines to identify them but that doesn’t mean that the search engines are not getting clever enough now to identify self linking even when no marked as nofollow (and if not now then probably by next month)…

1 Like

How can you know if the page your link appears on has high Page Rank?
Google no longer shows public updates on PR.
Does the person selling you the link tell you it’s high?
Can you believe them?
How would they know?
Only Google knows, and they are not saying.

4 Likes

There are only some of the directories to follow like DMOZ and others like this which are trustable and consider authoritative directories but don’t focus too much on directories for SEO. There are other much worth-able techniques to follow like guest posting, forums etc.

Those “techniques” have exactly the same problems as directory posting.

Search engines give very little credence to links which you place yourself; reputable sites will mark user-submitted links nofollow (in accordance with Google’s guidelines), and if you use any of these things to excess, you risk being penalised for participating in link schemes.

The main purpose of your link submission is that your website stays/comes on 1st page of GOogle for that i will advice you search some google tools like checkpagerank.net they can at lease tell you the authority of the website but you have to find out which website could have the best authority.
A tip for you search back links of your competitor where he posted his link try to post on them as if these link are helping your competitor then sure it will help your website.

Please remember that this topic is specifically about directory submission, and keep your replies on-topic.

We have many, many threads discussing backlinking in general and other SEO techniques; there is no need to turn this into another general discussion.

Whoever begins their own site and tries to get it recorded higher in web index results by making backlinks, soon goes over web registries. In principle they are a really perfect thing: a considerable measure of them have a high Page Rank (PR) and getting your site recorded there can be very significant for your Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Moreover, there are several them out there, which gives you a lot of choices to look over. Isn’t that so?

Given that you don’t give a single example, I would think not.

Presumably you took the time to read the topic before replying. Did you not understand

or

Why would you still be referring to high PR directories, when it has already been explained that PR is calculated per page, not per site, and that Google no longer makes PR information public. Is there something you don’t understand which needs further clarification?

All of these posts have explained why directory posting is not a good idea.

If you have a question about what has already been said, or you don’t understand it, please feel free to ask.

If you disagree with what has been said, and have a recent authoritative source to back up your argument, then by all means post it.

But please don’t simply repeat what has already been said and refuted, as that just takes the topic round in repetitive circles and is of no benefit to anybody.

3 Likes