Submitting new site to hundreds of directories: Good or Bad?
April 2nd, 2007 by PankajI am providing quality directory submission service on various webmasters forums and have some good feedback. My clients always ask me various questions regarding directory submissions. One of those questions is:
“I have new site and want to submit it to 500 directories. Will my site penalized by search engines for having 100s of back links in short period?”
I never said I am SEO expert but for client satisfaction I searched on various webmasters forum and search engines. Here is what answer I got:
All directories don’t activate your links on same time. A directory takes 2 days to 6 weeks, even 6 months to approve and activate a link. So, all back links from directories may takes up to 6 months to be active.
Let if 20% of your links approved in first week and cached by search engines then you will get 100 back links from 500 submissions. If the site is old and already has some back links then it’s not any issue but may be problem for new sites.
So, I will say that you should not use more then 200 submissions for your new site. First go for 200 submission plan, and then wait few days till back link updates. Then you can choose 500 or more submissions plans.
It is personal thoughts maybe I’m wrong. Expert’s thoughts are welcomed on this topic.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:36 am
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May 25th, 2007 at 7:20 am
I think it is completely alright to submit a new site to 500 web directories. There are several directory submission services out there that will submit your site to 1,000 web directories even! I think, that even if your site is accepted to let’s say 100 of those 500 directories in the first week, they won’t get indexed all on the same day on Google. It will take time for the pages to get indexed, so no need to worry about it too much.