Directory Listings - Another One Bites The Dust

Another cheap, pointless, yet effective SEO technique may be biting the dust. Directories are loosing their impact in SEO, or so says an 'algo chaser' over at SearchEngineWatch forums, as reported by SEO Roundtable.

Nobody thinks directories serve any purpose other than providing links that the search engines can count anyway - have you every seen any of these bazillion directories in your referrer logs? So their death, if accurate, should be welcomed.

We'll miss the 'good old days' when SEO was just one long series of tricks and little-known-facts, but we're eager to move onto something far more productive: helping clients build web pages and sites that really are the most relevant in the world of their targeted keywords.

Update: More at SEO-Book

Posted by Craig Danuloff at July 5, 2005 10:35 AM