Comments on: “Real” Real Estate Directories

By: Mert

Mert — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:50:09 +0000

36 Towns,

I have great respect for your enthusiasm and promotion of the site. I was not trying to demean the work you do. The article was not written initially to promote certain directories but to help directories achieve certain quality guidelines. Advice is free and you actually follow most of those guidelines better than most other directories in the real estate market. Everyone has a business model to make money, so does Google. That is all I am saying.

Petra,
In terms of lazyurl.com, I have not dealt with them before but looking at their website, all I can say is

#1) They are outsourcing their work to India (which any one can do)

#2) They still defend link exchange as a viable option that will not harm your site. That is wrong.

#3) They claim to create viral videos. If I were you I would ask for examples and benefits in terms of how many links those virals brought to them.

By: Petra Hinterschied

Petra Hinterschied — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:46:32 +0000

Have you heard of a company called lazyurl.com that does seo. Do you think their services are ethical and effective?

By: 36Towns

36Towns — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:06:52 +0000

Although we do allow custom link anchors for our featured advertisers, we do maintain high level of quality for all types of listings.

Lets take the listing that the author referred to as an example, and take a look at its inbound links in Google http://www.google.com/search?q=link:www.suburbanvillagerealty.com&hl=en&start=10&sa=N

As you can see, on the second page 36Towns is showing a backlink for that site. So to answer your question Petra, yes, Google does count niche directory listings as backlinks… or at least we know that for 36Towns it does…

By: Mert

Mert — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:36:32 +0000

I have updated the article to answer your question Petra.

By: Petra Hinterschied

Petra Hinterschied — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:58:25 +0000

So are you saying the 4 directories listed at the top of this page are valid and useful directories to link from. Does google see these back links?

By: huntsville pr

huntsville pr — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:26:30 +0000

Please check out my directory realout.com and tell me what you think

By: Mert

Mert — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:32:54 +0000

“Would the world even notice if all directories went away overnight?”

Probably the best line I heard in a while Mike.

By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:37:25 +0000

Most directories are nothing more than spam themselves are they not, which prey on the weak and uneducated, built with the intent of either making money for the creator or building link popularity for their own evil purposes;)

Would the world even notice if all directories went away overnight?

By: Team Aguilar

Team Aguilar — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:35:40 +0000

Some of your directories have too many links per page.

By: Clackamas Real Estate Guy

Clackamas Real Estate Guy — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:17:16 +0000

I’ll do directories but its seems like the only use from that is for a click. I’m not sure how much value search engines really give directories. But then again if its related to the category of your site it might be good.