Directory submissions killed my site

A few years ago I had a site that I had built that was about two years old. All of a sudden it started to get good traffic from google and I started making money from it.

I decided to hire a freelancer to do a bunch of directory submissions for me to hopefully get it to perform even better. It basically killed my site. I went from about 200 hits/day to 10-20 hits/day.

Now its about 5 or 6 years old. It's only a PR 1. I get about 10-20 hits per day.

If I totally messed up my site by having someone do a bunch of directory submissions, couldn't I theoretically do the same to a competitor to drop them in the rankings?

What would you suggest I do now to revive my traffic with this site?

Theoretically you could, but you would go to hell for that.

Man which directories did you submit your link to? Chinese?

┼blackrat┼;2000734 said:

Theoretically you could, but you would go to hell for that.

Man which directories did you submit your link to? Chinese?

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hehe... possibly. I don't see any backlink data for what I paid for so they've probably all since been banned. I didn't really get a report of where they were submitted. Live & learn.

xhenxhe said:

hehe... possibly. I don't see any backlink data for what I paid for so they've probably all since been banned. I didn't really get a report of where they were submitted. Live & learn.

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oh indeed. i'd think a report would be the minimum they could provide you for this kinda service..

but directory links ant all that powerful so i guess it was not that

What kind of competition happened with those keywords, I wonder? If you were only doing directory submissions after you were already ranked it could have been a lack of fresh content, and other people outmaneuvering you with SEO.

Someone needs a Spammy Directory Submission service that automatically blasts your competitors URL to the most spammiest, worst, lowest ranking directories on google

Nothing changed with the content. It a site that got updated every day. I guess it was not much of a value add site, so I assume once I did the directory submission blast it triggered my site for a review it got "sandboxed" (I know, there's an ongoing debate as to whether such thing exists)

how big was the submission blast? did you made any other linkbuilding before or did he blasted 10000 spammy directorys links on a site that only have a few links before? i think the amount on new spammy links relative to the amount of existing links can be the problem. on a good site with a good linkprofil and history, a few spammy directory submissions doesnt matter.

i would continue linkbuilding and try to get high quality links.