REASON #2 - FFA PAGES DO NOT INCREASE YOUR RANKING

For those of you who don't know, the more links you have pointing to your site, the better your site will rank in most search engines. People often submit their site to thousands of FFA sites in the hope that this will increase their "link popularity" and therefore boost their search engine ranking.

The truth is though, that virtually none of the FFA sites are registered with the major search engines, so the search engines won't know that you have all these "links". If the search engines can't see all these links pointing to your site, then it won't have any effect on your ranking. If the search engines did find them, it could even hurt your ranking, as many search engines penalise you if they think you are trying to artificially raise your "link popularity".

Our own research has shown that submitting to FFA pages does NOT increase your "link popularity" or search engine ranking in any way at all. In fact, it could harm your ranking in some search engines.