The was a time going back to some of the earliest days of marketing online when submitting  your site  to website  directories was the number one   method   of generating   those all important   incoming links. And as  you must    be aware of  getting   these links is  an essential task   if you want  to have a  profitable    internet   business. This is because most websites will get the majority  of their traffic  from  search engines like google  , and the single most important factor in assertaining  a  good placement  for your site in the  serps (search results pages   for the  particular search terms   that you are targetting  is the number of incoming links which are pointing   at   your site.

But in the time since then  google and the others  have all gotten  much better  at analysing the links which they Edit find   and  judging how good they are  . This quality is judged based on  many    things    such as   the quality of the site which is linking to you , the number of links  on the page where yours is,situated , whether it is reciprocal or one way , and many  other things , not all of which are fully known and understood. So Many  marketers are now asking    if   it is worth  doing this at all  . If you have a store, for example, is it worth submitting a link to a niche shopping directory? Or if you have a UK shopping site, is it worthwhile getting listed on a UK shopping directory?

The answer is  that it sometimes is and sometimes isn’t  . If there is a category that contains the keywords  you are  working on  , it can be a big help . That  is where  niche directories such as  the shopping directory example I quoted are helpful.  A one way link from a directory which has high google PR  and lots  of incoming links is also very valuable  for seo. Submitting to a deep links directory can sometimes  help a great deal    too   simply  because it is often  exceedingly   difficult  to get  Edhyperlinks   to  inner   pages of your site, and so if you have a  lower   number anyway then small things can make a difference , and it is always best to do something about  finding   deep links rather than  just focussing solely on the homepage .

 but keeping all that in mind  , I don’t think that anyone can ever  deny that the  old ways   of  mindlessly   submitting links to just any old directory and  thinking that it will   have much value  have certainly come to an end .