WHY YOU SHOULD NOT SUBMIT YOUR WEBSITE IN DIRECTORIES NOW?

Submitting a website in directories wasconsidered as an important online marketing strategy in recent past. It is not enough to just design a fantastic website to present it online successfully. You will require any medium to improve the visibility of website in search engines.

Web directory is one of ways used to enhance traffic on a website and in effort to increase page rank (PR). There are several reasons behind why you should not submit your website in the directories now.

1. Bombardment of Spam and Low QualityLinks

Most of directories offer you absolutely free submission of your website. But the worst thing is that there is no guarantee to getting a yes or no about your website. It takes longer time for answer by directories.

It is not necessary that all directory submissions bring on maximum traffic to the particular website. Often there is bombardment of spam links on the free directories that can ruin your website visibility. It is better to not submit your website to such directories. It is nothing but wastage of time without any benefits.

2. Duplicate Meta Description and Tittle :

Duplicate content that can lead you to bigger problems. If you think you can generate many different titles and Meta descriptions of your website then probably you are mistaken. The more you create different titles and Meta description the more they will be diluting already low back links from the directory (assuming that your website submission process succeeded).

3. Bad Neighbors

You cannot control your neighbors. Well it’s true even in internet marketing when you had plans to submit your website in web directory. In many categories, some low quality websites managed to get approval and such websites hurt your website ranking as well. As Google seriously take into consideration when calculating ranking or page rank.

4. Lot of outbound links

Outbound links are good only when they are pointing to any authority website but in case of web directories lot of outbound links to good and low quality websites are of no good. The backlinks value get diluted and sometime this value goes into negative and then instead of any benefit, it start hurting your visibility if you have any or another case, it helps you to delay your website ranking. Don’t risk.