[Video] Submitting to Web Directories to Build Your Link Profile

It would be great if you would use a different publisher then G Video since they don't allow people in some countries to view their videos. Youtube does and has great speeds. Second time I've commented about this..

Didn't really understand why you decided to make a video on this one. Is it some seo test? The video is a little bit out of focus...
Anyway, I had skipped the video and turned to read the post + past posts which were referred in it and I found it highly valuable. I knew most of the things, but others were new. Thanks!
As far as I see it, directories submission for new sites is better be done using only the good ones (A new site with not too may links if at all, which lists in goguide, for example, will get noticed @ google and it's great).

Excellent video Aaron. Many things for me to look in to. I do have one follow up question for you regarding directories.

lets say that you had a directory for a while (years) that is part of your domain. At some point it was not maintained properly, or perhaps it would fit in to a scenario of was acceptable then, but now it is not. Then Google devaulues the directory as a whole. Would cleaning up that directory show a search engine that you are making attempts to have a more vertical relevant directory? Is there anything you can suggest that could bring the link trust, authority, and weight back to what it once was?

I have a directory that was intended to be nich specific, but got out of hand due to neglect from powers beyond me (meaning someone else was maintaining it). and I have made great attempts to clean the directory up. Removed spam, irrelevant links, dead links etc and the directory is obviously devalued. The domain itself is not, the domain is actually crawled frequently, ranks well, and so on, but the directories have suffered for a while. Is there anything else one can do to bring a directory back from the dead?

One thing you forgot, there are lots of directories for RSS feeds and blogs. If you run one of these be sure to submit your rss feed and blog url around. This will be especially valuable if the SEO competition in you industry is on the low end. For example if you blog about XYZ machinery parts and not very many other people do, just the links from the directories in combination with just a few other tacticss (onsite optimization, a few natural links, a few reciprocals) may be enough to rank, especially if your producing a lot of content compared to your competition (like if you post twice a week and they don't even have a blog)

I have a list of 80+ directories with PRs of 3 - to 8. All are non-reciprocal and no payment is required.

Pretty interesting article. I do agree with the post above me that the video is in need of a better resulution, I thought I was viewing an old late 90's video that was scalled 8 times it's original size.

Great article and video Aaron. - very informative!

It does bring up a huge question for me right now though ... and I'm sure others must have found themselves in this position also. - Perhaps another future Aaron Wall article topic? : )

Correcting Directory Listing content - both paid & free listings

A client of mine purchased a one year "Marketing Package" from a company that submitted incorrect information about their site to mainly free directories (also dir.yahoo.com). They will not provide me with a list of the submitted directories so I can repair these listings. The directories I have found all require the original password by the original submitter to edit the listing. Urgh! What do you recommend doing for this type of situation?

1) Finding the Directories: What would be the best way to search for the most complete list of these directories?
2) Repairing Content: How would you recommend attempting to repair them? Email each directory individually? If they are free listings (i.e. joeant.com) will they even respond? Or do you think it is best to leave them alone and move on to new listings with other directory sources?

To give you an example, in this particular situation the clients are Realtors, 1/3 of the city areas listed are incorrect (same incorrect information used for each submission) and now the agents have switched companies so the company name is now also incorrect. Would love to hear any input on this type of situation. Thanks!

You can search their backlinks from Yahoo! Site Explorer, Microsoft Live Search, and Google Webmaster Central, and try to contact whatever directories you can.

I probably wouldn't worry about the smaller directories though, just a few of the major ones that would potentially drive real traffic and provide good co-citation data for the new area served.

As far as contacting them I think you can use the listing update request in DMOZ, and then Yahoo! Directory probably has some support area as well.

This also makes another point for when you service your clients...to give them access to the data for Yahoo! Directory and the other major directories in case they want to change things after you are done servicing their account.

Although the resolution leaves a lot to be desired the video is still interesting and useful.

Would like to see some updates to this page. Its 2009, but I think this page could still be relevant with a quick update.

It is still quite relevant. But we have a more relevant list of web directories inside our training program member's area. We don't share that list publicly though for competitive reasons...we like to keep it private as a benefit for our customers :)

I thought the "Blogger Web Comments for Firefox" sounded cool so I went to get it and here's what Google says, "Blogger Web Comments is no longer available for download." No explanation as to why or if it's still functional. Any thoughts?

Perhaps they figured they would rather collect and display that type of information via Google SearchWiki and/or Google SideWiki.

Links don't work but video is useful. Thanks for Sharing Aaron.

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