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Are Pay Directories Worth While?

By Kari Calder

Real Estate Agent with Century 21 Fusion

November 29, 2007 08:49 AM

Again similiar to my last post... I have been on a search to find good locations to post my site for the links back to it. I constantly stumble across pay sites that say they will list your website on 20 PR 5 or higher websites, etc for $19.95 or whatever the deal is on that site. I am wondering if anyone has had any experience with some of these large directories and what their thoughts are on them? Is it worth the money to spend having your site listed on some of these? If so what are the best ones out there and the best deals available. Any information someone would be able to provide would be excellent. Thanks!

Kari Calder
Saskatoon Real Estate Agent
Century 21 Conexus Realty
www.karicalder.com

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Daniel J. Brudnok, REALTOR

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Fox & Roach, REALTORS - Exton - PA License #RS-225179-L / Delaware License #RS-0025038 - Downingtown, PA

SRES, e-PRO,ABR,GREEN,CSP

Kari,

I have seen too many of these as well...I have enjoyed my own work to day...I have been in Active Rain about 3 months and I have seen changes in my online hits....I needed to know more about this myself.

Jan 25, 2008 02:40 AM

Michael Fowler

Fowler Realty Quad Cities - Davenport, IA

Broker, Owner Fowler Realty

I am new to this as well but see how important it is to have your website linked to the right directories. As well as the right keywords and what are called Meta Tags. Most high producers are unwilling to talk about it. Good Luck

Feb 18, 2008 12:49 PM

Paul Viau

Nova Scotia Real Estate Blog - Halifax, NS

Nova Scotia Real Estate Blog + Photo Services

I have learned too much about long tail keywords and content to believe all that hoopla. However - I have tried an online version of the phone book / yellow pages in hopes of some traffic there. I'll report back on my results in May.

Feb 18, 2008 01:05 PM

Alan Barker

Boomerang Leads - Smithfield, UT

I think the paid direcotories used to be worth while because they used to get a lot of hits, and really would send traffic to your site. Now, Google is dinging many of them for having "pay for" links. They don't get that much traffic, and probably don't give you much good search engine juice either. It's probably not worth the ROI.

Feb 19, 2008 08:11 AM

Kari Calder

Century 21 Fusion - Saskatoon, SK

Thanks Paul, please keep me posted on what your results turn out like with the online phone/web directory as I am always looks for good ways to get additional traffic.

Kari

Feb 19, 2008 01:11 PM

Stephen Joos & Chris Brubaker- HouseFront

HouseFront - Denver, CO

If your hoping to get anything out of them besides SEO than I wouldn't do it (no one actually goes to those sites to find a real estate professional), and then the problem Alan brings up about the links not even counting towards your SEO...so it seems to me that they aren't a great idea.

J ust my two cents though.

-Chris

Feb 27, 2008 05:52 AM

Rob Muller

ReMax Town & Country - Canton, GA

Cherokee County Real Estate

I have been researching this pretty heavily the last few months on this and other SEO forums, and everything I have read says do not pay for links, they are garbage, and google tends to ignore links that they know come from pay sites

Mar 10, 2008 11:57 AM

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