Will having my software in low quality directories hurt my ranking?

Richard M from Australia asks, “We sell a software product and there are 100s of software download directories on the web of varying quality. Could submitting our product to all of them hurt our rankings or domain trust/authority?”

Ok, so we are talking only about a software product not about a website. If it’s only a software product then I wouldn’t really worry about it some of those directories are not high quality and we might end up taking out or scoring differently those directories but it won’t hurt your website to link from those software directories. Now website wise I would definitely recommend not submitting your site to 100s of directories but you are talking about a software product. So that’s what you are confining yourself to then I think it doesn’t hurt to go ahead and have your product listed in all those software directories. If any of them are low quality we try not to score them highly, we try not to keep them that high in our ranking or how we crawl the web but it doesn’t hurt your software listed in that directory.

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