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Do you know the advantages of directory submissions please explain, I am interested in knowing! I would really appreciate some professional advice here.

Thanks a millions in advance..

Best Regards

I find that directory submissions can be a help amongst other back linking techniques, but they are not really so helpful once you get onto or close to the first page of google.

A key issue with directory submissions is indexing, a don't have actually percentages, but it is not awesome. And even for those links that do get indexed, not all of them will stay indexed. Using a tool like backlinksindexer that Jonathan recommends here is a big help for this, but you still have the manual process of extracting the URL's from each site and then pasting them in - a tedious time suck. HOwever, paying someone $10 or something to do a dierctory submission is a small price to pay and does have some benefit.

As far as my own time goes, I prefer to spin articles and submit them to 1waylinks. IT saves time because I don't have to write lots of unique article, and even better than that the indexing rate is excellent. I checked a submission of 60 articles the other day and all of them were indexed except one, and I am sure that one is just a matter of time. You can't get any better than that for article marketing. Many mass article submission software I have used are not even close to that level of indexing.

Darren

Submitting the site to directories is only half of the work. Then you need to take time and efforts to get the pages where the site is listed on indexed. I agree with Darren that manually extracting the URL of from each directory and adding it to the Backlinks Indexer is a tedious work. But there is tool called Fast Directory Submitter from http://www.fastdirectorysubmitter.com which can do all of this automatically. After the site is submitted, it searches for the site listing in directories and extracts the URLs. Then you can add the URLs to the Backlinks Indexer using just one mouse click. I've been using Fast Directory Submitter myself and I'm happy with it. It saves much time really.

Directories are useful for the quality and long term links and traffic for the site and in indexing.