Comments on: Should You Use a Directory Submission Service?

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:54:47 +0000

Dannie – This is directory submission, not article submission. Directory submission for a BANS site is fine. For article submission sites, your articles would need to include a link to the BANS site in the article content in a useful and appropriate fashion. If you can’t pull that off, then don’t bother because you’ll just be wasting your own precious time. Hope that helps.

By: Dannie

Dannie — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:32:11 +0000

Michael, what do you think about using article submission for non-content sites like a build a niche store?

By: Shachar

Shachar — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:53:33 +0000

Hi, what about a free directory submission service? like the http://www.2dir.net service, anyone knows it?

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:34:57 +0000

Thanks Michael, this is good advice. I thought that directories aren’t that important, but from your friends results, it seems they might be. I’ll check out the Submit Edge service – I need all the help I can get..

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:10:12 +0000

@Micheal: No sweat, I just wanted to make sure you weren’t getting things mixed up. If you get good results from using the service, feel free to come back here and tell everyone or link back to here if you blog about it yourself.

By: Micheal

Micheal — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:01:21 +0000

Michael, Thanks for the response and I apologize if I bumped the thread. That wasn’t my intention. I should have given it more thought before jumping in.

I have checked out Submit Edge and it appears to be great value in comparison to what I have seen to date. I am going to make a submission today. Thanks for providing the tip.

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:45:53 +0000

@Micheal: My opinion on article directories is that they are a legal gateway through which quasi-legal ad-spam sites and splogs acquire content. Look at any great blogger out there, and you will not find one single person who submits to article directories. My post was on submitting to link directories, which actually does help you get some traffic.

By: Micheal

Micheal — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:34:50 +0000

Do you think it is preferable to post articles on a blog or post article snippets on the blog and then submit articles to an article directory?

I see many people using their blogs for posting full articles and wondered which was more appropriate from a traffic generation and PR perspective.
Thanks.

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By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:21:15 +0000

Thanks, Simonne! Feel free to return here afterwards and leave a comment about your experience with them or a trackback to a post about it if you decide to blog about it yourself. Thanks for commenting!