Well, it's been a while since I began the directory submission experiment. I sorted through a couple hundred potential blog and RSS directories, picked the best ones and submitted this blog to them. I wish I could say it was a smashing success, but that would make me a worthless liar.
Out of all of the directories that I screened and then took the time to submit to, only 2 have provided any traffic. And the traffic they did provide was a trickle.
www.blogcatalog.com was the clear winner, providing me with 14 new visits.
www.blogged.com came in 2nd with 4.
The rest? A big fat zero, or maybe an employee verifying that my blog isn't spam.
Now, I don't have any way of verifying that I'm not getting SEO help just by having the links out there, but many of them are nofollow links, so I doubt it. I also have a sneaking suspicion that the search engines catalog these sites and devalue their links. (Although I did try to stick with human-edited sites to minimize this.)
Is it worth the time to submit? I don't think so. If I do it again, I'll do the two I mentioned above and forget about the rest. Commenting on blogs and leaving a link is an order of magnitude more effective - I have hundreds of visits from other blogs. Alltop is working out well, but I wonder if that will continue as it gets more crowded.
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