Why are web directories dead?

[swatijain2233]

Hello friends,

I would like to know that Why are web directories dead?

[Dam Ponting]

I am considering purchasing a space, (which isn't shoddy) and has the watchwords of; myniche + directory.com.au in it. On the area I intend to work out a catalog, most likely utilizing a word-squeeze topic and word-squeeze index module.

[fayeseom]

Submitting your links to directories is a thing of the past. You are basically adding zero value to what you are trying to achieve. Gone are the days when people could rank their website with the help of directory submissions. It's all about relevancy these days!

Any link building effort that is easily achievable is not deemed worthy in the eyes of Google. Your focus should instead be on how you can garner links without building them.

[sinelogixtech]

I think directories could be good if they are seen by final users. If they are being seen and used only by SEOs looking for links, then you don't really have much space to grow.

[RH-Calvin]

Directory submission is no more helpful as Google considers these websites are thin sites with very less content. Hence these websites are rarely crawled and indexed today.

[sinelogixtech]

Web directories died (or better said link value from them is much lower) because it was a SEO technique well abused more than 5 years ago when Google decided to devalue links coming from them.

That's happening sooner or later with any SEO technique that is abused.