Directories in Link Exchange – Is it still worth a game?
Links so simple a word yet so complicates are its effect. Some people go crazy for them as it affects Search Engine! Well How?

1. Lot of inbound links will help them gain position in the Search Engines. 2. Quality Inbound Links will increase the PR of the site.

Though, I should mention that Toolbar PageRank (TLBR PR) is not the original PR it is just an indicative of the real PR that is part of the Google algorithm.

Many people think that submitting your site to directories will help you in many a way.

1. To get listed in directory for quality traffic 2. To get free one way links 3. To get a part of the PR.

Oops, did I say free one-way links. Not really, you will come across many directories where they will list your site only for a reciprocal link. Huh! A reciprocal link from a directory is it really required. In my opinion there should be few factors to determine the quality of a directory. Though I will probably list the qualities in my next post. Coming back to the point is it really beneficial to get reciprocal link from a directory. The answer would be a Big NO.

Check out Dmoz will they ever ask for a link back. No, they will never. Because they are concerned about their reputation, their content as in the quality of sites listed. This is probably the reason why an editor-based directory is always preferred ahead of any one.

I have always found out that a low PR Directory with quality sites listed is always better than a directory with no rules or regulation where anyone can submit. To be precisely you can narrow down into some handful of quality directory.

Directory should always aim at providing quality result through proper relevant site listed in them. This means that a site listed should have proper good content should be submitted to relevant category and have lots of information to provide to the visitors.

Fee Based Directory
Well, again it is upon you to decide whether they are worth it. Calculate the return on investment and then go ahead. Yahoo – $299, if you think Yahoo Directory will provide you with quality visitors and the number will be quite interesting then not a problem. Otherwise, establish your site and after a period of time decide whether it is worth going for it.

There have been a growing number of Article Directory sites on the web for a good few years now. Article writing provides what the search engines want, and that is well written and informative content in the form of articles on an unlimited range of topics. What is new is a new form of Web 2 article directory site just launched which allows it’s free registrants to submit articles with their Google Adsense account details. And obtain up to 50% of the income from the Adsense ads displayed on their article pages, while also allowing the usual links in the author-bio section of each article, and of course the articles submitted are free to use by web masters on their sites.

The owners of Article Directory sites do very well for income from advertising on their sites and the best of them, like Go Articles and ezinearticles.com, experience massive traffic from which the article writers benefit as the visitors follow their links through to the article writer’s web sites as well.

Now most would like also to write viral articles which spread rapidly and are articles which are ‘word of mouth worthy’, and will grow your site more so than any other kind of content. However, this is quite demanding on editorial skills and not all of us immediately find ourselves able to keep coming up with the necessary suitable new ideas and text to create these.

Furthermore, when it comes to viral articles – writing them or paying to have them written is only half the battle. Publishing articles in other people’s ezines (or on their websites) and on their article sites is the key to the secret of creating a viral lead-generating and backlink machine. However, it is very time consuming registering and logging on to so many sites.

In short, you need articles to drive traffic to your Adsense sites, and you need to put them on multiple directory sites, for plenty of backlinks. However, just submitting the articles to article sites with your name and link to your site, with all the adsense revenue going to the article site seems excessively good to the article site owner, and is soon to become a thing of the past.

In the past most of us were just happy to see the articles being published but now many wish to get more out of their efforts. This is where the TAS New System pays off. Firstly, by linking directories in the network article summaries are posted across the network ensuring that each article and writer is given uniquely high prominence. Secondly the system also posts Adsense adverts into the text of each article for the (50% revenue) benefit of the tauthorr’s own Adsense account! AND, this is all free!