How many directories exist who’s only value is a SEO friendly link to those that submit there sites. Even worse there are loads of directories that do not even do that! Lets forget about those directories that do not even produce a SEO friendly back link, there dead already and going the same way as the Dodo, but are just so stupid they have not realised it yet.

What future do nearly all the SEO friendly type of directories have?

Very limited. Those back links will in the future become completely degraded.

Why?

Well as we said before the only value is a SEO link for the website owner. I foresee the day that the major search engines decide that they do not wont there SERP´s been manipulated by these types of sites, and start to consider directories to be link farms. And link farms ended up like the Dodo.

If I was Matt Cutts (scary thought I know, but a mans got to do what a mans got to do!) I would simple stop all these sites from been able to pass PR. Simple. 

Why would I do this?

No new directories would be created with the sole purpose of offering a SEO link, because that has been corrected. And any new directory would have to offer some other value apart from been able to distort my ranking system.

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