Does advertising on Directories really work ?  For me it does. I own Two free Directories and Eight paid Directories. So i decided to carry out a small test.

I spent One month just doing SEO work on my Directories. I am convinced this alone helped to increase my PR on Google. I did no submissions at all to other Directories. I must admit that i was lucky in choosing  the month before an update and i know they are more inclined to give new sites some PR. Submissions to my Directories did not increase at all.

I then spent the next month submitting my Directories to other peoples Free Directories. Traffic has increased a lot, especially my free directories. I don’t know if this has helped PR as yet but i am sure it will. There has not been an update as yet.

I am half way through submitting Directories to other peoples Paid Directories, and i have already noticed another  increase in my traffic, but this month the increase has been to my paid Directories. The only conclusion that i can draw so far is that submitting to Paid Directories does pay.

It can be quite costly to begin with but it is definitely worth it. I will certainly carry on paying for submissions.

I know Google punished a lot of directory owners for buying links by dropping their PR, but i think they did that to try and scare people from directories because Google get no revenue form it.  This is the only reason for doing what they did, no matter what they say. That little word springs to mind JEALOUSY.