While surfing the mommysphere (mommy blogs), I came across a post that got me wondering. This article talked about adding your link(s) to web directories. It gave some good advice, and there was some stuff I didn’t know about that really helped me. But seeing as I run two myself, there was one thing that concerned me.
The author of this article stated that if a directory linked sites in this way…
http://www.yourlisting.com/click.php?linkname
instead of listing them this way…
http://www.yourdomain.com
that you should move on to the next. I can see the logic in this, I really can. It’s all about the link back, right? People are greedy for them, and they want good PR (even though google won’t give more then three from what I’ve seen). Personally, I don’t care which way they do it. I’ll confess, my listings link sites in the /click.php?linkname manner, but that’s how the script creator wrote it. That’s not my fault, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Anyway, back to the rant…
So if they’re saying this to people looking for places to list their sites, then what about the top 100′s that people add their sites to that link site(s) in this way…
http://www.yourtoplistsite.com/out.php?id=101
There’s no link juice coming out of that, and people seem to be fine with it. I think people are too worried about PR and link popularity instead of who is seeing their links to begin with. In my opinion, it doesn’t matter how a directory or listing displays your link(s). Add them anyway. At least then you won’t be missing out on all that potential traffic.
What’s your opinion? Do you care? Do you have a preference? Share with us :)
I think there is something about Google rankings not liking link backs so it might cause a persons site to drop into an abyss. Not sure but you might check it out.
I totally agree. Traffic is traffic. I am just glad someone came to the site. I’m not sure what the big deal is with how they get there. :)
I agree that people are too worried about PR, Alexa, and link popularity For me, it’s more about getting the right people to find my site. The type of of people who not only read the posts and write comments, but the people who actually contribute content and participate.
Ugh, I am so sick of hearing about pageranks, Alexa, and popularity. So stupid. STUPID! I hate this whole popularity thing and I just want it to stop.
Traffic is traffic, like Jennge said.
Direct links pass authority to your website which help you rank better in the search engines (also more traffic) and the “redirected” links will give you only traffic.
I don’t like redirected links at all because they don’t show up in my referrals (in the statistics).
If you’re only worried about link juice, then any link that doesn’t have your domain in the target URL will not pack much pop. That said, links are more about traffic, not rankings, so don’t miss out on a good traffic stream because you don’t like the way your link might be coded
You know, I only just saw this post.. crazy crazy.
I assume you’re referring to NinjaLinks when you say you’re using one of my scripts – in which case, it uses php header() to force a redirect which Google is fine with (and will rank). If you wanted to be absolutely sure, you could change this part in click.php:
header(“Location: “.$link['linkurl']);
to:
header(“Status: 301″);
header(“Location: “.$link['linkurl']);
to force a 301 redirect, which is even better.
Anybody who says that directories that using ‘http://www.yourlisting.com/click.php?linkname’ instead of a straight link without actually knowing anything about the directory, is talking out of their ass!
Adding Links to Directories…
While surfing the mommysphere (mommy blogs), I came across a post that got me wondering. This article talked about adding your link(s) to web directories. It gave some good advice, and there was some stuff I didn’t know about that really helped…
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I wish I understood what I just read!!! Sigh so much to learn!!!!
I don’t know I’m fine with how the script is written and displays stuff. :) If other’s complain, well, they can find a different directory to submit too.