Directories that Pass PR or Page Rank

Google Penalties for Selling Links. In late 2007 Google penalized directories that were selling links for the purpose of gaining PR (Page Rank) by dropping their PR and causing them to not even rank for their own domain name until they made some changes on their websites. Thus people that had submitted to those directories found their PR drop also, because the links from those sites had been devalued. Since then Google has removed the PR on most every link page on the Internet. It is rumored this is a result of Google trying to devalue PR as it is too easily manipulated.

Directories No Longer Pass PR on Link Pages. Since then there are very few directories with PR on their link pages unless they are using rel="nofollow" on the links (which Google recommends, but which also means that page will not pass PR). So finding directories with PR on their link pages is almost impossible now. However, Google often applies PR value to a page where the toobar shows no PR due to the PR on the home page filtering down, so don't neglect submitting to directories just because there is no PR on the page.

Some Links Devalued. Google has also penalized sites for getting involved in triangular linking schemes (I'll link to your site, from this site, if you link to my other site over here). Linking within large networks of websites that you own yourself has also been devalued because it's self promotion. Link trades, blog links and forum links don't provide as much benefit as they used to either for the same reason. However you can benefit from traffic on social networking sites.

What does that leave us? Google recommends that you provide pages of interest to your visitors that people will want to link to without being asked, like graphics tutorials or tips. It also helps if you frequently add new content to your web pages and an easy way to do that is to provide the option for people to leave comments. You can also set up a forum or blog where people will want to return and then bookmark the site.

Directory Submissions. Directories still produce some benefit so you might try the following directory list. I have personally checked all these directories and they all appear to be clean directories (SEO Friendly), i.e., that don't have nofollow on their links and they don't have the links in frames or other means to prevent your link from being seen by search engines.

I have not included directories that require a link trade as I do not consider that "Free", although that option is often available. Don't submit to directories that accept submissions from gammmmmmmbling, Poorrrrrrrrrnoo, Pharrrrrrmaseutical (misspelled on purpose) and other bad neighborhood sites as their link value has likely been demoted to nothing. I have not set up direct links to the following directories in case they get bought out or penalized in the future (which would reverberate to this page). The Page Rank mentioned on the sites below is for the home page only.

Free Submit Directories

Free Submit Christian Directories