Hello friends,
Can we still do Bookmarking and Directory, I am little confused about this.
In my opinion, both socail bookmarking and directory submissions are very important parts of SEO. But to get the use from these two parts you need to generate backlinks from high page rank and high domain authority websites.
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Directory submissions are no more important as search engines consider them as 'thin' sites with very less content. These websites are rarely crawled and indexed by search engines.
Social bookmarking on sites who has domain authority above 50 can be considered as beneficiary. Dont do social bookmarking on PLigg sites, they dont even crawl in search engine.
i advise you concentrate more on social bookmarking than directories. social bookmarking has a greater tendency of giving your good quality backlinks and boosting your website rankings as well as traffic visitors to your website. make sure you target high page rank ones and do it manually.