Should You Submit Your Website To Paid Directories? What Google Say!

There seems to be some question about whether Google class directories as paid links (some directories aren’t free) and as such treat them unfavourably. Yesterday I wrote a post detailing how to find decent directories to submit your website to using Web CEO. The directories you’ll find in the software are decent directories based on the criteria that Google recommend; you should always use your discretion when you are considering places to leave your link.

Let Matt Cutts explain this further by watching the video below.

So as you can see, some links are going to be much more effective than others.

Here are some directories that you should be on.

DMOZ.org (free)

BOTW (paid)

Yahoo Directory (paid)

To your success,

Karl Foxley

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