axiom82 Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Obviously publishing links of the site you are trying to market on other sites that share relative keywords and topics is a good idea. But is it ever a bad idea? If I search a directory of forums on twing.com (which is actually a very good tool for web marketing) for posts or topics regarding my market and offer assistance which includes a link to my website...can this be considered spam by search engines or just old-fashioned link popularity generation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I doubt you'll get extra credit for outbound links coming from well known directories as they do not provide any real value. You might get indexed though. Generally you'll be ranked by relevance and popularity. The relevance is in respect to the user's search query whereas popularity is how many external web pages that link to you. The larger sites that do it the better. However, directories do not provide any real information regarding population so I would expect that such links would be disregarded by search engines providing that they're well known enough to be excluded from their algorithms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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