John Scott Experiments Paid vs. Free Directory Listings

It has been an on-going issue for a long time now and finally someone has initiated. John Scott, a leading SEO expert has experimented the results of submitting to paid directories vs submitting to Free directoreis.

He used 2 different websites to see the immediate results. Here is how it was done.

Site A” was submitted to five pay for review directories and “Site B” submitted to 700 free directories. The results were stunning.

According to John, the Site A ended up with PR4 and sends 100+ Search Engine referrals per day while Site B ended up with PR1 and no search engine traffic. The site B seems to be penalized.