Does Google penalize sites that have back

[geyser]

Directories are devalued nowadays because is has Low Traffic and even No traffic at all and its because of the fact that people who use directory is dismal, also No substance, directories are a sparse of actual content, even if there are some category pages, only a few listings included in them, While the main page and a few of the main category pages might be indexed in the search engines, many others are not. If interior category pages aren't indexed, they have no ability to pass any link juice to your site. also most directories nowadays has low Page Ranking..


Now, I am not saying that all directories are useless. What I am saying is that one should do due diligence to make sure they are getting some kind of value by listing their site in a directory, especially if they are paying for it. Here are some things to look for when deciding on whether to list your site in a specific directory or not.

[hooby164]

i dont use paid links from directories at all? how about u guys? does anyone
regularly spend money on his optimization process?

[richardvanorg]

No not at all. Google wont penalized your site unless you are linking on a bad sites and not related to your site at all.

[Dave011]

google only penalize does site that spam and those are not following their TOS.

[mastery]

Back links always worked for me, but I find it pretty time consuming.

I find creating a good silo structure for your website or creating a blog and posting to it daily at the same time works much faster.