February 9, 2006
Submission services for free one way directory links
Sometimes when something sounds too good to be true, it is true. I’ve been doing some testing with services that claim to submit your website to hundreds of directories that are free and don’t require a link back. The claim is that for one small payment, anywhere from $10 to $50, they will submit your site to between 100 to 300(or more) directories. Obviously it sounds like a good deal, perhaps too good. But so far I’m impressed with the results I’m seeing.
I hired four different services for a minimum of 100 submissions and maximum of 300 submission 10 days ago. So far all four have produced similar results.
-10-12% sent a notice of the request being rejected for various reasons.
-33-37% have not listed my test site yet (some have long wait times).
-51-57% have posted a link to my test site.
Of the sites that accepted my link easily 65% are basically worthless links as the directory has no PR and often the pages aren’t even indexed or the directory has literally thousands of links and my link ended up buried. So that leaves less than 20% of the original directories giving me a decent link.
That might not sound too successful, but consider a few things:
Price: It’s just plain cheap. One service directory submission service submitted to 300 directories for $30. Even at 15% return that’s around 66 cents a link. And some of the links are on PR2 or even PR3 pages with as few as 5 other outbound links.
Time: It took me maybe 10 minutes to sign up, input my test site’s data and pay.
Future development: It’s only been 10 days. Some of the sites that have not accepted me yet will end up posting my link. Also, some of the directories that are not indexed yet will continue to grow. In a year I could see half of these directories listing my link on indexed pages. So for the 300 for $30 deal that’s 20 cents a link for links on themed indexed pages.
The down side is that I expect very few visitors from these links, you can’t always get a properly themed category, and most of the sites will be dealing almost zero trust rank. But overall when it comes to directory submission to free directories, it’s a deal I’ll take with a smile.
Filed by Bryan at 5:22 am under SEO
