Many webmasters might disagree with me on this article but I am talking not only for one site but for more than five sites that we optimized since December, including Myseoblog.net. This is an experiment about Directory Submission and after six months the result is disappointing.

Myseoblog.net alone has been manually submitted to 1,600 active directories from December until last week with an average of 10 to 20 directories per day. Out of 1,600 submissions, around 1,410 have been accepted and the rest are considered pending or rejected. Having a percentage of 88.25% is relatively a very promising result for accepted submission. But the thing is, as of yesterday there are only 23 directory listings appear in Google for Myseoblog.net.

If you are an administrator of another site with the same result, would you feel contented? I don’t think it is acceptable. I tried checking around 50 directories who accepted Myseoblog.net today, the site is listed but it is very deep for Google to dig and to make it appear on search results pages – even using the domain as keyword in search field.

I don’t have a second thought quitting all of my directory submission activities and spending my time to other ways like creating good articles, posting in forums, and exchanging discussions with friends in Blogging Communities. It is a waste of time submitting your site to a directory that has a PR3 or below. And even the directory has a PR of 6, still it does not matter because your link will be listed 3 to 4 clicks away from main page.

Content is still the King. If you want to see your site in search engines, especially in Google and MSN Search Live, create a good content with high keyword density and the search engine will voluntarily index your page.


Most of Myseoblog.net’s backlinks are through free blog reviews, forum signatures, and blog comments. These backlinks help the site to make it more visible in search engines.

As a conclusion, many webmasters overrate Directory Submission without analyzing the negative result. Furthermore, many Link Directories are fly-by-night and come-and-go websites created by those webmasters who are just testing their design and programming skills. Vilesilencer.com is adding and removing a lot of active and inactive directories almost every week. This is a sign that Directories are not stable.

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