Question on Links from Directories…

[inhouseninja]

Hello,
When I do an OSE back link analyses of some sites that are listed in some directories we are considering, for almost all the directories and companies in them, the directories are listed in the OSE report, listed as followed, and usually have decent domain rank and page rank.

So this means that the link from the directory is obviously being picked up by OSE and it’s listed as a followable link. My question is just because the link is picked up by OSE does that mean that the search engines value it too?  Or could Google see the link ok but throw it out of the equation, presumably because it does not “like” the directory?

Hope this makes sense
Thanks!

[zoicaremus]

Here is the question you posted:

Just because the link is picked up by OSE does that mean that the search engines value it too?

The answer is very simple: no.

However, there is a relationship between the OSE data and Google data. This relationship is not causation. It's correlation. This doens't mean that if you have a link picked up by OSE it will necessarily be picked up by Google. It means that links that tend to be picked up by OSE also tend to be picked up by Google.

I hope this helps!

[brycebertola]

Link Directories don't have anything to do with your category (unless you are also a directory) and so they won't provide as much value as a link from a similar ranking site within your category.