Comments on: Social Media sites vs Web Directories

By: Website Traffic Guru

Website Traffic Guru

The reduced effectiveness of organic traffic coming via directories are more likely driven by the internet growth. Before, people have lesser options when searching for what they need. Now you don't even have to switch gears if you have the almighty Google right on your fingertips. Just like aging in humans, I guess time has always proven it can make you useful or not after some years or so...

By: ChrisCD

ChrisCD

That's a good point. You just don't see many companies willing to do CPM type advertising. Any suggestions?

cd :O)

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

You can monetize social media traffic as well (think CPM). Social media sites may not pass link juice, but if you hit a front page of digg expect tons of links from other places.

By: ChrisCD

ChrisCD

It isn't just traffic that counts, but conversions. I don't have the statistics in front of me, but there have been quite a few studies that show social traffic doesn't convert very well for adsense/affiliate marketing. So whether or not you pursue that type of traffic depends on the goals of your site.

Also, many social sites only provide nofollow links so they don't pass on their juice. Web Directories and Article sites in most cases pass page rank on, thus helping you rank higher. Some blogs pass rank on comments.

By: Farrhad

Farrhad

The directories only give back links, nothing more, now its confirmed.

By: Jordan Pearce

Jordan Pearce

Directories are good for backlinks and bringing you to front page if their PR is higher.

It depends on the search I suppose and I agree I get more SE traffic than I do from directories.

By: peter caputa

peter caputa

It seems like the only thing that directories do well nowadays (maybe) are help websites rank higher and or be the middle man between search engines and your website(2). Social media websites and search engines certainly help people find websites more than directories do nowadays.

By: daducha

daducha

Whichever of the two is more effective, both of them helps people to find what they need more easier and more accurately. Our world is changing so fast that sometimes we are just faced with new ways of doings.

By: Vladimir Prelovac

Vladimir Prelovac

I still have to see it significant organic traffic bosot, but the problem is how do you know what increased organic traffic? Granted my old site that I wrote about receives about 100 visitors daily from organic traffic, but how I know it is DMOZ and not the content?

By: Web Design in Canada

Web Design in Canada

I would have to disagree, they work wonders for generating organic based search engine traffic. Depending on how you lay your blog out if you do a good job at building those links you'll experience a lot of traffic, and not just one time traffic. Cheers.