It sounds so tempting doesn’t it? Just turn over your off-site SEO to an automated service and submit to hundreds of directories in minutes, even seconds.<\/p>\n
What you’re really doing is begging Google to penalize your site & keep it from ever ranking. It’s like putting a brick wall in front of your store entrance. Here’s why.<\/p>\n
Google has been looking more and more at your links lately. In fact, the latest ranking algorithm update added even more restrictions to this part of SEO.<\/p>\n
They want natural links, not factory produced ones. What does that mean?<\/p>\n
It means they need to see link text that varies, not the same keyphrase or 2 over and over. Unfortunately, if you use a Mass Link Submission service, that’s exactly what you get.<\/p>\n
Even though that’s exactly what Google doesn’t want. It’s like doing negative SEO on yourself. Why would you do that?<\/p>\n
Another problem – Mass Link Submissions don’t necessarily pick out quality directories, which is where you want to be. Even if there are some in there, you’ll find many that you don’t have a chance of getting into.<\/p>\n
They’ll submit you to directories for Women-Owned businesses, for businesses based in Israel or for specific industries, like Travel or Construction.<\/p>\n
If you fit these requirements, you just might get a link. If, like me, you’re not, you’re paying for rejection.<\/p>\n
Who cares if you’re submitted to 100s of Directories if 25% to 50% of them will never list you business. SEO has to be done smart.<\/p>\n
Especially as the search engines have become more and more discriminating, detecting the old SEO tricks that used to work and now only get you in trouble.<\/p>\n
Mass Link Submission is a dead end. Raise your SEO game now or watch your site sink. It’s that simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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