BOTW Still Provide A Top Quality Inbound Link

Posted by Karl Foxley on Sep 19, 2009 in Blog, Blogging, General Blogging, Link Building, SEO | 0 comments

BOTW, or Best of the Web, is still one of the best directories on the Internet. If you think directory submissions is dead then think again!

The assumption that Google treats ‘paid for‘ directory submissions as a paid for link is very much mistaken and this was discussed by Matt Cutts in a recent video. I’ve shared the video before but just in case you missed it, here it is again.

Your take-away from this video is that not all directories are created equal, some are just there to make money from as many people as possible! You need to assess the quality of the directory before you ever pay for a link.

So, does Best of the Web provide a quality link? Absolutely!

BOTW has a Google Page Rank of 6, so the Goog see the directory as an authority site.

Are all links approved? No!

Bad quality websites are not approved.

So, if you are still looking for a top quality link, you can now rest easy that getting listed on BOTW is NOT the same as ‘buying links’ as Matt Cutts has made clear.

Go get your top quality link right here.

Get A Quality Link Today at BOTW

The most important thing you can do is make sure you select the most appropriate category for your website (remember, relevancy is key).

If your website crosses a range of categories then I recommend you choose the one that is most important to you.

To recap, a paid link in a poor quality directory that approves all links is probably going to do more harm than good, BOTW on the other hand is a great place to start with you link building strategy.

To your success,

Karl Foxley

P.s. If you are interested in local search, BOTW have now added a special feature for just for you. Just click on the link towards the bottom of the home page that says ‘local search’. Here is the link again.