How to Identify Quality Directory?

When it comes to quality of a directory people gets confused. Most of us are not aware of the term ‘Quality Directory’. That is the problem! As we said in our previous post it is very important from SEO perspective to submit your website to quality web directories. But how do you define a web directory as quality? This article will help you understand the quality of a directory before paying them or consider submitting in them.

Domain Authority:

When it comes to websites and domain people talk about authority. What is domain authority? Is there a benchmark to judge? Yes, there are some standard norms with which you can identify this. However authority is the established credibility of a domain with search engines. Why posts from few websites automatically get ranked without any SEO being done? It is because of the domain authority. One best way to verify this is the DA (Domain Authority) ranking provided by SEO Moz. Any website that is over 30 DA is considered to be authoritative enough to submit your links.

Page Rank:

While the importance of page rank itself is decreasing, questions may rise if you will have to consider this. Our answer to this is ‘Yes’. Page rank still plays a key role in determining the power of any website. Submitting to low profile or low page rank directory is not a good strategy.

Number of linking domains:

There are ways to manipulate Page Rank and hence a website owner must be aware of the fact that number of website linking to a domain matters than anything else. It is good to verify a domain’s back links before submitting it to them. Again one must be careful enough to see the number of referring domains and not number of referring links as the latter can be easily manipulated as well.

Quality of listed websites: You will also have to peek into the websites that are being listed in a directory. Are they credible enough? Or are they spam websites? Listing your websites among spam websites might spoil your credibility. Hence it is better to have a look at the sites that are being listed and verify their quality in terms of content and value to the user.