Free Directories - Yes or No?

[applesofgold]

Clearly, we see that high authority directories like Dmoz.Org are effective, even if this big monster is practically dead because of how unresponsive it is.

What about other free directories? Is it worth obtaining as many listings as possible in the free directories? what about the paid ones? Is this still good SEO strategy if the directories have at least a PR3-4 or many cases higher?

I'm asking this for an established site, so I understand that it won't help for deep-linking and anchor text, but will it help anyway to get links from these?

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[bradkrussell]

Free directories still have their place IMO.

If I were you, I'd have a look at aboutus.org and read a bit more on this page - http://www.aboutus.org/DoFollow. Quality links from a quality domain.

[stanken]

free directories doesnt help much with ranking in my opinion.

But I still recommend  obtaining links from them mostly for link diversity and because the search engines kinda expects a good site to be listed in directories but Im  pretty sure they dont help much in the rankings alone

[Digirank]

I typically work according to a 1:2 ratio - for every 1 directory link I build (niche-specific), I build 2 links from other link sources. This seems to work well for us.

I think there are still some really good natural directories out there (that aren't just for SEO), so I'd be surprised if Google didn't take into account directories.

[applesofgold]

true. thank you for the response!

[applesofgold]

Just updated our "About Us" page. Thank you for sharing that. I believe that will help significantly!

If anyone is curious to see it, it is here: http://www.aboutus.org/ApplesOfGold.com