Directory submission services is a waste of time and money

I want to gain backlinks, and gain them quick… First thought of a beginning webmaster who just learned about websites. Thinking what is the success behind all the other bigger sites, and the first thing that pops up is their keyword rankings in search engines. That is due to backlinks… Not noticing the fact that the other site is well established and has been online for quiet some time. They have tons of backlinks yes, but it took them time to gain all those. Well not many people understand that. Since they want to gain backlinks, they will go ahead and do everything and anything possible that will cost them lowest amount of money and effort.

Question rises, what is the quickest way to get a backlink? Directory submission, but man that takes too long. Lets hire one of the services offering MANUAL directory submission for just $5. Biggest mistake of your life as you can loose all the credibility of that site by doing that. While I am not saying all of these services are a rip off, but a good proportion by which I mean almost all of them are a rip off. Manual Submission?? If it is a manual submission, how can one even show a report as what I see that most of the reports were generated by a software, and it shows Success: Yes, Date Submitted, and Time Stamped. Do you still think that was a manual submission? How many of you will go ahead and do 100 directory submission for $5 and put down exact time and second and put down which one was successful and which one was not. I know I won’t, and not many people would either because $5 USD doesnot worth enough. Not in U.S, not in any other country for that sake because the electric bill you would spend on using the computer far outweighs that $5, rest aside the internet costs, so this will eliminate those who will say Countries in Asia would do it.

It is simple that these people are using softwares, and claiming it to be manual. Yeah, the only manual part of the software is that you have to enter captcha on some directories, the form is auto-filled and its being run by a software. Some reports even have the link to the software and their copyrights at the bottom. How stupid is the user to believe these services?

Now next thing is how trustable is this service? Maybe the person just did the service once, and never did it again, and is keep generating the same report over and over? Half of these auto submissions are spammed. Do you know why? Because they submit your sites to paid directories and leave without paying giving the editor no choice but to remove the listing. You might gain 100 views from $5 .. that is expensive but neither of the editors were targetted users. I know that when I was running my directory, I didn’t look at any site that didn’t pay, so there you go you lost one user who was like me so now it is 99 users for $5. I am sure I am not alone in doing so.

Ensuring the quality of directories. How many free directories are really quality directories? Not many because they will just approve anyone, and most don’t even survive more than a year because they are sold, and than sold again, and than left alone, and than shut off.

In the final line, what I am saying that these directory submission services are a waste of time and money. Note: I have nothing against directories, and you should submit links to them, but submit to quality directories. Really hard to think that the guy will submit to 100 quality directories for $5 because I can’t even think of 100 quality free directories, and I have been keeping up with directories for about 2 years or so. Avoid these services, otherwise your site will be blacklisted among the directory owners, and many others because theser submission services will leave without paying them and they don’t know who is doing this. For all the editor know it is your site, and you are submitting it and leaving without paying. Don’t give your new or established site this reputation.