Are bidding directories of any good?
If you are an experience webmaster or professional link builder, you probably know what a bidding web directory is. But for newbie’s understanding, I would like to give some introduction first.
Bidding directory is a special kind of paid directory where websites are sorted and listed by the bidding amount they pay. Usually such directories rank well in search engines and own a page rank of 3 to 7 for the homepage. Highest bidders are positioned at the main page of the bidding directory which results in high ranking and visibility for them.
In simple words, bidding web directories sell page rank to the highest bidder. Read more
Traits of quality web directories
There are literally thousands of web directories available on internet. But not all these web directories are capable of yielding the ranking results you might be looking for.
Differentiating between low and high quality web directories is quite simple and requires only a careful analysis of the targeted web directory. I’ve written few factors that high quality web directories usually share. Analysis of a web directory while considering these factors can safe your time and money. Read more
Link building and web directories
Even if you don’t know what the web directory is, you must have heard or witness the webmaster’s craze for listing their website/blogs into directories. Just like the phone directory or yellow pages, web directory is a directory on the World Wide Web, which provides information about other useful websites.
A web directory or link directory lists websites by category and subcategory. Yahoo directory, Dmoz or even Google directory are some good examples of reputed and quality web directories.