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[kalam_01]

Hey I was just wondering what the point is of submitting your site to directories if you can just have a link to your site as your signature in forums/ blog comments etc. It seems like its way easier and faster to get links to your site this way than submitting to directories and hoping they will accept you sometime in the next 6 months. Is there an advantage to submitting your site to directories over finding a blog with a high pagerank and just posting tons of comments with your signature as a link back to your site?

[iteamweb]

just these are the different methods of getting one way links

[Otani]

Just remember that some places may use the rel="nofollow" attribute to prevent some spiders from following the link to your site.  Also, I've only ever used Google's Web Master Tools, but I like the fact it displays which searches bring up your site and at what position.

[Jammie1988]

I prefer both. Both work quite well for me.

[uh_Iforgot]

Both will bring spiders and people to your site. However a good directory may also leak PR across to your site. If you want to advertise your site then do both.

[rollfresh]

the method that works faster for you should be the one you exploit

[HellSpAwN]

yeah both are very well..........

[ChristinLang]

Directory listing is an important part of the SEO.A tip
regarding the directory listing is whether a directory is found in search results. If it is, especially on Google, take it as a good sign. It's usually worth the money to buy a link from that directory.

* Don't submit to too many directories too fast. Space it out over several months.
   
* Avoid free directories.

[SoCalSubbuteo]

A tip regarding the directory listing is whether a directory is found in search results. If it is, especially on Google, take it as a good sign.

I have found plenty of directories where their home page is in Google & they have blocked Googlebot from crawling the rest of their directory. 

I always check to see if Google has a cache of the page in the directory I want to submit my link to.  If it does not then I don't bother as the directory owner has probably blocked the search engines' spiders & the link will not get found.

If you have the Google Toolbar it is very easy to see if a page is cached.  Click on the drop down next to the 'Page Rank' & select 'Cached snapshot of page'.

If you do not have the Google Toolbar in your browser I recommend you download it.

If you know HTML check the code of the page you want your site on to make sure that there is not:

• A robots noindex tag in the header
• The links are not rel="nofollow"
• The link is Javascript or some other script

* Don't submit to too many directories too fast. Space it out over several months.

Wise words.  Don't submit to more than about 10 - 20 per week.  If Google finds a sudden rush of links to your site then that is a pattern they have found that spammers use & you might find your pages being lumped in with them.
   

It's usually worth the money to buy a link from that directory.

* Avoid free directories.

Personally I disagree with those statements.  In my experience I have found that many pay directories are just as full of spam & as worthless as some free ones.

And I have found plenty of free directories that contain good content as the owner takes the time to check that submitted sites are not spammy or other bad types of sites.

[jokarl]

The most important is that you have several methods and not rely on one method. Mixed backlinks and writing good content to get natural backlinks is by far the best backlinks imo.