German Directory
Jul 19th, 2007 by admin
When it comes up to directories there are many different opinions. Some guys say it’s not worth the effort, some placed their sites on hundreds of directories.
I believe that an entry in an nice directory is always worth the effort or a back link, but the Directory regardless whether its a German Directory or a Directory from the US must fulfill the basic requirements:
- the link must be on an indexed page
- the link should be permanent on the given page
And this is where the trouble begins!
Many German Web catalogs have hundreds of banned pages. I guess that the pages where banned from the index on behalf of double content. Especially German directories running with the German Directory software from edev.de have many banned pages. The reason is simple: this software reads out the meta tags automatically. Webmasters that make entries in Directory are typically doing it on many directories. In a conclusion there are a lot of directories with the same descriptions. And google doesn’t like double content at all.
So if you place your sites on a German Directory make sure that the page is indexed and that you place just unique descriptions.
Many webmasters from the States asked me which German directories I would recommend.
Here is a list of German Directories I would hardly recommend. Some of the German Directories on this page doesn’t require a back link but I heavily recommend you to place one. I you give them a back link your link will normally stay on the given page!
these German Directories doesn’t have a need of a back link:
Webkatalog Joobs (btw this guy developed his own directory software)
Webverzeichnis linknova.de
United-Directory.de Webkatalog und Webverzeichnis
Webkatalog Internetbaron
The following sites require a back link:
Webkatalog Webverzeichnis add-link.de
Webkatalog (you have to mail this guy, he does the entry for you to avoid spam)