Why do people still use directory submission in seo?

people still use directory submission ? it’s really useful in seo?

Yes, it is really useful in seo when you choose high authoritative websites like DMOZ or Technorati.
Every seo technique has importance in the world but most of people choose low quality websites and do directory submission without any sense. It’s wrong.
Don’t attempt more than two directory submissions in a day and after submission, try to ping all submission links.

Links which you post yourself, such as directory links, are regarded as pretty well worthless by search engines. Done to excess, they can be regarded as part of a link scheme (designed to manipulate search results) and lead to your site being penalised.

Reputable directory sites will mark links as nofollow, which will render them useless for SEO. However, you may get some traffic from these, especially if it is a specialised directory relevant to your niche.

Widespread posting of directory links is just a waste of your time.

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They’re only ever useful for getting visitors to your site, it’s really marketing not SEO. And also most directory sites will give you very few visitors because those sort of sites don’t often get many visitors themselves.

One rule of thumb is to test submitting to a few for traffic purposes, if the amount of visitors you get is worth the effort you’re lucky, otherwise you’re probably wasting your time.

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i don’t find it useful. Mostly it goes in reviewing. So very less links gets approved and review time takes long time

Hello Neha,
Directory submission is really useful in SEO.
we know that they are having delay in approval but its work to push up your business. Just do one more thing while submitting directories that be aware of their DA & PA.

In what way? @bluedreamer and I have explained why we believe directory submission for SEO purposes to be largely a waste of time, and I’ve linked to a Google resource on the subject. Rather than simply ignoring what’s already been said and posting your own contradictory view without explanation, it would be much more helpful in progressing the discussion if you would give your reasoning and, preferably, an authoritative source to back it up.

Again, an explanation of your views would be useful.

DA and PA are metrics used by Moz to estimate how well a domain or page will perform in SERPs. They are not a firm indication of anything, especially not the likelihood of the directory page with your entry being returned in search results for any given search term.

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one link submit on more then two directory submission site? or not?

If you have one link then you should not submit same link in more than one directory website. Although, you can submit different link in different directory websites more than two times in a day.

Is useless to search engines but useful for organic traffic. Sites (search engine) which delist crawling of inlinks to crawling bots are those ones which are authoritative, thus making your listing worthless. On the other hand, if is a local based listing for a specific niche, then you are good to go cos it will readily serve as a reference point for local searches.

Therefore, is good and is not good too.

Hi Neha,
Directory submission is really useful in SEO?
-seo technique has importance in the world but Directory submission do
carefully (submitting Tittle, website URL, description etc.)
-Just do one more thing while submitting directories that be aware of their DA

I think directories are largely redundant on the web these days. The web, with the availability of search engines, effectively is a giant directory of websites.
Why would someone go to a directory site to look for a site when they could just Google search what they want?
So I would be very surprised if they brought any real traffic.
I believe they are only used by those in the misguided belief that it helps SEO, a myth already exposed above.

They don’t on any large scale, but odd directories that I submitted sites to 15 years ago still bring in the odd visitor.

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