Is submitting directories wrong?

[xwhyz]

I have a blog. I want to submit it to the free and paid directories that is accepting blogs. I want to know whether google will penalize my blog if submit my blog to free and paid directories. I was concerned after the recent pagerank issue that google did!

[nareshshah2008]

i don't think google might have any dispute with directory submission, why do you believe so?

[snowbird]

Submitting to directories is fine, and will help you rank for your anchor text. It will also help your PR.

[bizwiz]

No it's not wrong. You will gain backlinks which is good.

[gingimaster]

it can't to any harm.
worst case is that google won't take into account some of the links, probably from the free directories.

[aripaandre]

I never heard that google take action on submission to the directories. In contrast, it will boost up the traffic for sure.

[oldtime]

You absolutely can submit your blog into directories, just not 5000 per day. That's the rule of Google!

[Positive]

As long as you do is slowly and only choose quality directories, I don't see any harm. Avoid to build all the submissions overnight.

[Hafsoh]

There is nothing wrong with directory submission, you can add your site to free directories to gain backlinks , while you can add your site to big paid directories to gain traffic and PR.

[comver]

I don't think that submitting in to the directories would bring harm to your site. Instead it would generate backlinks, which will improve your page rank