Topsites/Directories

[David]

I've been sitting on this question for a long time, and now would be a good time for some advice. Do topsites, links directories and any voting site help to boost your page rank? (obviously you are putting in the hard work of maintaining your site)

Thanks.

 

[USHost247]

It builds your backlinks to your site and eventually it will.

 

[TheWrestlingNerd]

Well, depending on the rank, it does help a lot for getting members, or for XWA anyway, who is N3 on a Toplist and seemed to have gotten us quite a lot of members because of that.

 

[MrJohn]

It really does. Pagerank and content mean everything these days. More backlinks to your forum=Higher Pagerank=More members.

 

[Midnight]

After time if you have participated in alot of directories. You will get more backlinks and eventually a better rank.

 

[mamedesign]

as i know it can be help. more backlink can get more traffict to your site.

 

[David]

I know about backlinks, I sometimes write articles on them 😛

However, you link may not always be indexed or even noticed by search engines (Google). Whats the probability that it will be noticed?

 

[Fergal]

If the directory is indexed in Google and it does not use do-follow tags, the link will be noticed. All else being the same, the greater the PR of the page where your link is, the more PR that will be passed onto your site.