Is submitting to GoGuides.org worth it?

[pbhatt]

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[AdoptionHelp]

Value is relative so instead of telling you if you should buy it or not, let me help explain what you are buying. Each link you buy will pass some authority to your domain. This alone won't help you rank for anything, you still need to do on-page SEO; If your page were up against some hypothetical page with the exact same on-page SEO score, the authority of the pages will determine who ranks higher. So buying these links will add authority to your site, the higher the authority of the linking page/domain, the more "link juice" is passed to your site. Here are the mozbar scores for the guides you listed:

Yahoo's directory: 93 Domain Authority, homepage 72 Page Authority

BOTW: 73 DA, homepage 46 PA

GoGuides: 65 DA, homepage 34 PA

For me, its worth being in Yahoo's directory, but best of the web and goguides are not so clear cut.

[pbhatt]

Thanks Ryan! So in theory if the directory's DA and PA are higher than my website's DA and PA, getting a link from there should help raise mine?

[NerdsOnCall]

Keep in mind that newer sites are more fragile. I'm not sure how old your website is (the age of the domain) but I would suggest you let it age at least 6 months, and/or make sure that you have additional links pointing to the site that are not from directories. I wold try to score a couple of editorial links, and establish a social network presence.

It sounds like the directories in question are all reputable and acceptable directories, so you shouldn't have a problem, but if GoGuides starts submitting your website to shaddy sites, or spammy directories, it could hurt you.

If you decide to move forward with this service, just make sure you keep track of which directories GoGuides uses, and then you can always go back later and delete your profiles if necessary.

hope this helps

[AdoptionHelp]

No its value is not relative to your sites authority... but rather its just a good way of gauging its actual value. A page authority value of 34 means there are maybe a couple inbound links to the page. Its not very high, however a DA of 65 is pretty decent. I recommend installing the mozbar and then browsing around a bit until you get a feel for what these scores mean.

[KeriMorgret]

SEOmoz just recently updated their directory guide, and also made a blog post about the guide and directory submissions in general. You might want to check it out at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices.

[pbhatt]

Thank you much for that list!