Directories - Known SEO Circles
Most directories are not of amazingly high quality, listing many lousy websites. Martinibuster, a link building guru, often emphasizes avoiding being heavily located in known SEO circles.
For example, common SEO strategies for a new site might be to list a site in a bunch of directories, write a press release or two, trade links with many low-quality sites, get a few links from signature files from SEO forums, and submit a few articles to various article banks.
If your link profile matches that of most SEO websites, then it may be harder to rank than if you can come up with creative ways to get links from places that few other SEOs are listed.
Large portions of the web are well trusted and virgin territory to most SEOs. If you can think of creative ways to relate your site to people with great trusted and rarely abused link equity results will show far quicker than if you follow the same path taken by many people who are obviously SEOing their sites.
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