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Hi from Down Under..

Thanks for your reply. I am actually more interested in the linkjuice passed (there will be some conversions though as the sites I am looking at are US based purchases from our UK site will be low) So, if a site A has a DA of 70 and site B has a DA of 35, is a link on A worth twice as much as one on site B, or as I understand worth much more than double?

Thanks

Hi from Down Under..

Thanks for your reply. I am actually more interested in the linkjuice passed (there will be some conversions though as the sites I am looking at are US based purchases from our UK site will be low) So, if a site A has a DA of 70 and site B has a DA of 35, is a link on A worth twice as much as one on site B, or as I understand worth much more than double?

Thanks

Hi All

I have been looking at advertising on some fashion blogs for our online store. Both sites have decent traffic though A is stronger than the B with more than double the traffic, Therefore given equal relevance to our business sunglasses (www.pretavoir.co.uk) it would be fair to predict that A would result in double the number of conversions.. However another interesting aspect to making a decision on which sites to advertise is their Domain Authority and how much link juice they can pass. Therefore my question is this; Putting aside any potential click through traffic, if site A Domain Authority is 70 (link to be on homepage) and site B Domain Authority is 35 is the value of site A double that of site B or is there a less linear relationship (just as with page rank). Site A are charging 500$ per year for an advertising link and Site B 100$ per year would it better business to take 5 x Site Bs or is the linkjuice passed by one DA 70 site worth more?

Your thoughts would be most appreciated..

Hi

It can be quite frustrating and very disappointing when you realise that your page 1 keyword position is due to you being logged in and when you log out it drops though a hole in the floor. It's clear you know how to log out...

Recently, we have subscribed to rank tracker from link-assistant tools. It does appear to be very accurate, and will give you a graph of your serps vs competitor...

I had agonised over this issue especially after reading Danny Dover's SEO Secrets book, wherein he suggested that a PR of zero on a site of any reasonable age indicated something was quite wrong, whereas a PR of 1 merely indicated a much less sinister lack of authority. We have managed to 'SEO' our site well since then and managed many page 1 positions and still have PR of 0. I tend to consider some or Danny's secrets to be tales?

Are you saying that even a micro site with relevant keyword url, relevant title tag will not be counted as a relevant back link by googlebot and in isolation without any links (or more than a few) will not help boost ranking of master domain for these keywords?

If the purpose of constructing a site or blog is for SEO ie a linking microsite, is it better to keep as a subdomain or to register on its own domain. The question is how much of the Domain Authority of that site will flow through the subdomain to linked site. I note that these subdomains have PA of 1, does this answer my own question?? Thanks

eg widgets.yolasite.com or widgets.wordpress.com

Excellent blog post on the subject - thank you.

If I write an article on Ezine Articles, it has a page authority of 1. I guess this is to be expected until that page is crawled, but is it actually worth writing these articles? Does the DA 'count' for anything here? Can I ever expect the PA to increase? (unless I build links to the article - in which case I may as well spend that time building links to my site)

So that means almost all directory sites are worthless for linkjuice.. and also spammy paid link with PA1...

I have been thinking of just this issue. I have recently added our url to directories as recommended by Rand using getlisted.org. However now on looking at where our link is placed I see the PA is 1, 0 links from 0 domains? and nor page rank information available on google tool bar. I have noticed that these directories pop up in search for some of the keywords placed within our description on these directories, therefore on local search they have been helpful. However given the PA, are they passing little or no linkjuice?

Cheers for reply Roger.

Roger

Thanks for that advice.

I just downloaded quite a good whitepaper from http://www.fastdirectorysubmitter.com/ which seems makes sense to me. Any of you have used this site or similar?

Thanks

Sean

Mike

Thanks for taking the time to give your advice. I think you make good points.

One last thought is; Is it worth paying 50-100 $ pa?

Thanks

Sean

Thanks Mike The seomoz contains 180 directories with some of them towards bottom of list described as weak? Why have they listed these weak links? Also, as I am in the UK a) Should it make much difference as to which directories I use? b) As I am hoping to optimise for google.co.uk in the main, is there a different approach I should take due to my location? Sean

Roger

Thanks for reply. That makes sense.

I will take a look at these links.

Sean

Roger

Thanks for you reply. The main reason I ask is that when I use Seomoz Open Site Explorer they list some of the most important links of my competitors as some directories. Our site is as you suggest almost devoid of links. I have submitted to dmoz and I assume that is just a waiting game. How do you get listed with Yahoo sites you mention?

Hi All

I am a newbie to SEO and have a quick Q.

Assuming that appropriate steps would be to;

a) Ensure all onsite matters are are correct, title tags, meta descriptions, redirects, canonical issues.

b) Submit to Directories

c) Build Links

I am approaching step b)

Which Directories are worth submitting to? For those which require payment, how can I decide which are value for money or should I just use SEOMOZ list of links and assume that theyre worth the $50 - $100 if my higher ranking competitors have links from these directories. Also, can this be looked opon as grey/black hat 'buying of links'?

Thank you

Sean

www.pretavoir.co.uk

That really is good advice. We do something similar with fortnightly meetings between customer advisors, web developers and SEO. Quite often CAs will have great ideas from the sharp end. www.pretavoir.co.uk