What are the Main Benefits of Directory Submission ?

[jessis]

some of them are saying that directory submission is waste.i dont know much about this.

[Rohiteshwar]

Directory submission main benefit is that by using it you can increase your website position on the Google and also increase your own website page rank....

[Ark_Bill]

Directory submission helps to get direct traffic and to get quality inbound links to your website. More number of links to your website, more number of visitors to your website, which increases the page rankings on search engines.

[brainjohn]

Directory submission gives you indexing by search engines and also good back links with little traffic from that directory websites as well. So for getting back links directory submission is a must thing to do for your website.

[mridula]

directory submission is one of the backlink technique

[eurekapsycrille]

The only thing that you can get from directory submission nowadays is a bunch of low quality links. And you are totally linking to a bunch of low quality sites if you still do this thing right now.

[lisamoss]

Hi!
Directory submission is one of the important seo techniques. If your link is approved and included in the directory, search engine consider it as a validation and hence provide more value to your site. Another benefit is that your link is indexed by the search engine quickly. It also allows the anchor text of your choice.

[henryestvir]

It's a start but not worth your time. Ten years ago it was golden.

[adamblack]

most of directories has do-follow links which are considered as backlink by google these are important to get high ranking on google like <snip>
where as no- follow link are just link which redirect or open other web page, never consider as backlink nor help in getting rank in search engine.

[pay2gain]

Directory submission will help you in getting the backlinks. But the approval takes time. There are fast approval directories, you can submit the listing in those directories.