Is it worth to continue submitting your blog to indexes?

Should you continue submitting your blog to indexes?

Is it worth to continue submitting your blog to indexes or directories? Once a blog achieves a certain PR (for example PR3 like this blog), that a question worth asking.

On the one hand, you want inbound links in order to increase your blogs ranking in the "eyes" of google. On the other hand, most of these blog directories or blog indexes, request that you link back to them in exchange for submitting. This can be tricky, especially if your posts appear on the homepage like on this blogspot blog.

You may end up linking to them from a PR3 webpage while they link back to your blog from a PR0 webpage. So, probably the best next steps to to try to improve your google PR without buying links, are:

1. Find blog directories that will link to you from PR3 or more webpages. That way you won't end up exchanging links with a low PR indexes.

2. Get inbound links without having to link back. This can be done by posting comments on high PR pages.

3. Be active in forums.

4. Post blogs on RSS feeds.

seniority.co.uk (not recommended)

Hello! I'm back and hopefully will stay around for a while. A long period since my last post, and I thought I'd share a fact I just found out.

I co-own a gaming website since 2004. Back then, we added a "link exchange" page for the purpose of increasing our page rank by linking to related websites /indexes and receiving in return a link back.

5 years later (it was about time) I decided to start checking who is still linking back to us. Below is my first finding:
A UK based directory named seniority.co.uk removed our link. I tried to find out a way to contact the site owner and guess what, nothing under "contact us" actually leads to a way to contact them. By the way, their google page rank is 5... who know how many other sites were cheated by them.

Recommendation: Not recommended

My new blog

This post was removed as I didn't get the chance to update that blog. there should be new stuff coming up sometime soon...

topblogarea.com

QUOTE: This is the little tracker code you need, you need to place it on your blog or else our tracking system wont be able to count your visitors and rank your blog. The tracker will look like this



UPDATE: About a year later I checked this site again and I did see my blog listed there. However, there wasn't a real link to my blog, there was a redirected link. This means that when you mouse over the link it does not point directly to my blog, it first goes to an internal link on their database and after it redirects to my blog, so it is not a quality link for SEO... because of this I removed their link from my blog.

Recommendation: You decide...

Sites linking to your blog

There are many ways to check who is linking to your blog. Wholinks2me.com is one of them. To see who is who is linking to this blog click here:
Who links to my blog?

PR checking tools

1.) There are a few sites and tools whereby you can check your PR. For example DomainPageRank.com.

superblogdirectory.com (not recommended)

QUOTE: Your site has been added to our submission queue. If you wish to gain more exposure for your blog, consider using one of our upgrade packages listed below
They charge $10 for the above.
They added my blog to their directory but a few months later I got an email saying that my blog was rejected... I wonder why... I emailed their admin to ask why they decided to remove the link to my blog from their directory, let's see what he says.
superblogdirectory.com (I removed their link as well, watch out)

Recommendation: Changed to NOT recommended

2-review.com (Not recommended)

They request to add their link first:

QUOTE: Link Submitted. Thank You!

This is the message they've been showing for the last few weeks:
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Recommendation: Not recommended

Findingblog.com

QUOTE: Thank you! We will send you an email once your submission has been validated. In return for our free listing service, we ask you to put a reciprocal link on your blog.
I removed their link after several emails to webmaster at findingblog.com remained unanswered


I changed my recommendation from bad to god for findingblog.com, after reading the comment that Heris left on this post. Thanks Heris! For more details read comments of this post. This is a good chance to thank all the bloggers who post comments and manifest their interest and appreciation!

Recommendation: Good

Bloghacking.com (Not recommended)

QUOTE: Thank you! Your link was submitted for consideration
You'll be asked to add a reciprocal link in your blog.
After they got a few inboud links and got page rank, they changed the consept of their website...
They seem to have changed the consept of their site, you won't be able to find a submition link...(see comments of this blog)

Recommendation: Not recommended

Rocketinfo.com (Irrelevant)

Looks like their submition form is not working QUOTE: The url does not refer to a valid RSS or ATOM feed.
I sent them an email, waiting for an answer...
They have changed the whole consept of their website, they are no longer a directory and their PR is 9

Recommendation: Irrelevant

blogtree.com

QUOTE: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Will check again later on

Recommendation: On hold

Blogz.com (Not recommended)

QUOTE: Congratulations! The url has been submitted for validation. It will be reviewed soon, and added to our database.
blogz.com
After they got a few inbbound links and got page rank, they removed the option fo submiting a blog...

Recommendation: Not recommended

Blogstreet.com

QUOTE: Thank you for submitting the blog.
You will be notified through email when the blog is added to our system.
They only add blogs that are related to India

Recommendation: You decide

Directory.ifergan.org

Update: I recently checked this directory (actually more than 3 years after my initial submittal)and found out that my link (and many others) where removed... therefore I am changing my recommendation to NOT recommended

A reciprocal link is a must. Popular Internet Links directory focused mainly on computers and programming but also covers blogs, humor, entertainment, news, medical, games, real estate and property.

Recommendation: Not Recommended

Bloggapedia.com

QUOTE: Link submitted and awaiting approval.

A reciprocal link is not a must. My link was added.
Click on read more at the end of this post to see their link.

Recommendation: Recommended

Lsblogs.com (Not Recommended)

QUOTE: Thanks for registering, and dont worry, your site will be checked soon :) A reciprocal link is appreciated, but not compulsary (if you can't add a link, write about us in your blog)
I couldn't find their "contact us" section or an email to write them, so I emailed their support@lsblogs.com (buyer of lsblog.com domain according to alexa). No one answered my emails.


Recommendation: BAD

Blogdigger.com

QUOTE: Thanks! We've added http://blog-dir.blogspot.com/atom.xml to our database and will begin crawling shortly.
The feed was finally added.

Recommendation: Recommended

Blogintro.com

QUOTE: Congratulations you have submitted your Blog. You will be added to the list of Introductions and Introduced soon.

Ï sent Blogintro an email to ask if there are any problems, that's the answer I got from them:
"I have checked my records and found that you submitted on 9/2/2006 at 11:15:42 EST. There are roughly 100 blogs ahead of you waiting to be introduced. Around 40 of those will most likely not be introduced. I would expect your blog to be introduced in 4 week if it is still being regularly updated."

Well... today is September 15th, countdown begins :)
They finally added us, 4 weeks later, as they said.

Recommendation: Recommended

Blogfinds.com (Not recommended)

My blog was automatically added, as if it was a comment. But was later removed...

Recommendation: Not recommended