Submitting to directories can't hurt your rankings. Otherwise your competitor will submit your site to 1000 crappy directories and beat you in search engines results. There is no such thing as bad link, bad link=no link. But if you submit to quality dirs, it will raise your rank after some time. Of course, you do not know which directory is good or bad, so submit to as many dirs, as you can and this will give you good results. Free Links is what [link removed] is all about.

the best way to submit your web site automaticly is with Seach Engine Blaster - best on the web. http://www.searchengineblaster.com

One of the most important ways to increase traffic is to optimize your web site and Search Engine Blaster will help you.
Very important that you create links back to you web site to improve SE rankings.

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I don't even have a page rank mine is '0' I'll have to read up on some tutorials on how to make google like me more! And i think directory listing is a great way of getting yourself known and getting a few inbound links but i cant say ive received much traffic from directories on a whole, DMOZ is the best I've seen

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Since I started my blog six months ago, the pagerank for my blog has climbed to 2.

I have joined some of the blog-related directories as well as some of the social sites. I have a few inbound links to others that have found some of my posts useful, simply by participating in the social sites.

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Sorry but I disagree. Over 80% of all SE traffic comes from Yahoo, Google, MSN, and Ask (and the meta engines that feed off these engines). These days automated submissions are ignored and it's just better to submit yourself. Automated submissions are old school and no longer effective.

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Rob, keep doing what you're doing... adding content, working on links, networking, etc, and with time, your page rank will go up. There may be other ways to speed up the process, but I really wouldn't worry too much about your PR.

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Page rank isn't dynamic. Google only updates it a few times a year. They recently updated it and there were some winners and losers. I started Profitable Websites in August, basically shut it down in Sept., and I have a PR of 2. I add a post 2-3 times a month at most since I put it in limbo. I'm getting back to it which is why it's still in my sig on this forum and others.

I'm guessing the reason is because it's a blog, I've Social Bookmarked a lot of posts and submitted it to RSS and SE directories, getting me about 100-150 backlinks the last time I checked.

The cool thing about PR is that you can pass the power to you internal pages, or any pages of a site, when you link of the hight PR page. Page rank is really only useful if you rely on Google for traffic because you get listed higher on the search results page, or if your trying to sell links.

It does get interesting when you start commenting on blogs in your niche with high PR or linking to them from your blog (you get a trackback link).

The thing to remember is that PR is directly related to backlinks so we can forget about page rank and work for backlinks...PR then becomes a side effect.

As far as traffic goes...I get mine from bookmarking, search engines, Article Marketing, RSS feeds, and sites that use my marketed articles...in that order. I've never seen a referral from a directory...but I enjoy it indirectly from the backlinks that push me up on the SE results page.

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Great information guys! I wont worry about it too much if the update period is quite a long time, il guess il just keep increasing my inbound links etc, I did try social bookmarking for a bit but i cant say ive really grasped the whole concept yet and how it can be made effective. But its definitely something im looking into at the moment.

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