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

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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?"

Recorded on April 23, 2009.



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