Hi all, we all knows that directory submission is a key point of search engine optimization. But have you ever notice that mostly inner pages of any directories has not been index by google or any other search engine. So the question is why we do directory submission?

But other point, I have personally noticed that when we checked a sites link through google command, google shows some directories inner page but when we do copy that paged and cached in google, google doesn't show cached?

Why?

See below:

http://www.google.com/search?q=hemo...n&start=10&sa=N

http://www.google.com/search?source...Parent ID%3D50

So my question is "why we do directory submission, although we know that a directory consists thousands link and most of inner pages are not crawled by search engine"

Does search engine provide another algo for directories links?

Awaiting for your reply.

Originally Posted by sck4784

Hi all, we all knows that directory submission is a key point of search engine optimization.

Who is this "we?" Sounds like they're steering you wrong.

Originally Posted by sck4784

But have you ever notice that mostly inner pages of any directories has not been index by google or any other search engine. So the question is why we do directory submission?

You just learned one reason submitting to directories is a waste of your time. There are plenty others, like whatever pages the search engines do see in directories, those links don't count for squat. They're probably at least a little bit less important than a link in a forum sig; at least for those you have to type something intelligent and on point.

And then there's the fact that people don't use directories, we use search engines. When was the last time you said "Up -> Sky -> Thing in Sky -> Bird"? Never, you say "Wow, that's a crazy bird" and then you type "birds and xxx park" into Google.

Finally, while you're spending hours submitting to every directory under the sun ( including the ones that will fold next month ) your competition is out doing things that will actually improve their search rank.

You just learned one reason submitting to directories is a waste of your time.

How you sure about this?

Directories might not give more helps but getting oneway link from a free directories is useful, might not on the other part but on traffics specially for those big DIR.

But it's an incredibly devalued one-way link. ( And a lot of directories want recips anyway. ) Even if the home page of the directory has a PR, chances are whatever page your listing winds up on is PR 0. And it's a directory, meaning it takes about 20 seconds of work to get listed. I know this, you know this, Google knows this.

Ergo, a directory link isn't a real link. The whole theory behind links is that they're votes for good content, I might put one on my site to another page my readers will enjoy and appreciate. That's why they have value. But directory links aren't votes at all, they're just listings. You don't "get in" because you have quality content, you get in because you spent half a minute applying. The link says nothing about your site's quality or popularity, so the search engines are now treating it as such.

Besides, nobody uses directories to find sites, they use search engines. I haven't ever heard anybody say that any directory provides noticeable amounts of traffic.

Back in the late '90s the search engines weren't as sophisticated, and there wasn't as much competition on the web, but those days are over.

directory submission still play some role in site ranking & SEO.
take for sample, wiki paid for lots of feature listing. not only domain, but to their subpage as well.

point is, quality of directory is concern at here.