Authority Directories

[donttrustthisposter]

Since alive directory just became an authority website I was wondering if there's a list of authoritative directories out there?

Obviously

p://www.google.com/search?q=google+directory
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dmoz

Would like to get a list going, or to be pointed to a list.

Also to become one you need search results to hit how many of your inner pages?

ie, I see if you Google a site and the first 2 results are of that same site and inner pages of that site you're en route. How many inner page results until they wrap you up into the authoritative?

Thanks.:D

[britishguy]

Does this site qualify

http://www.directorycritic.com/

[donttrustthisposter]

http://www.google.com/search?q=directory+critic

:D Yes, and a good one indeed. Thanks for that Britishguy

[Richie_Ni]

http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=botw&btnG=Search

[britishguy]

BOTW
http://botw.org/
One more for evaluation

[donttrustthisposter]

One more found :D

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=world+site+index

It looks like Aviva & Romow are en route but not quite there yet

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=aviva+directory
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=romow

as the search results show him as top 2 placements. Unless I'm misunderstanding Google method here.

[user_name]

There are lot of them like this

Forplex Directory
Latest directory
AllShort Web Directory
Haabaa web directory
DollarLinking
Umdum Web Directory
Octopedia
Seoma web directory
Mingleon web directory

Thanks


It looks like Aviva & Romow are en route but not quite there yet

as the search results show him as top 2 placements. Unless I'm misunderstanding Google method here.

[amitpatel_3001]

It looks like Aviva & Romow are en route but not quite there yet

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=aviva+directory
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=romow

as the search results show him as top 2 placements. Unless I'm misunderstanding Google method here.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Web1+Directory&btnG=Search&meta=
This one also has 2 pages then ;)

[aditya_sfs]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Web1+Directory&btnG=Search&meta=
This one also has 2 pages then ;)

If we consider top two links only then many such sites are there. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Global+Internet+Index&btnG=Search&meta=

[donttrustthisposter]

Well I'm not sure of how far it is from the top 2 placements to an authority site. Was the alive directory showing 2 placements or 5 or at what number does Google wrap em up into an authority?

Anyway to see old Google results for alive? or any of the other authority ones?

[dkessaris]

goguides
joeant
wow directory
skaffe
uncover the net
thisisouryear.com

[sizzler_chetan]

If it is 2 links in the top then this gets both the top results for my directory - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Noble+Web+Directory&btnG=Search&meta=
:) :)

[donttrustthisposter]

Well no the top 2 links I think shows a site en route, it certainly does not count as authoritative. Trying to figure out Google results prior to going authoriative and think it obvious that it would start at top 2 links. Anyone have knowledge on this?

[ccoonen]

info.vilesilencer.com is an authority...

[MeetHere]

If you consider 2 links then
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=BQTM&btnG=Search&meta= :)

[ccoonen]

Am I misunderstanding what actually classifies a "Google Authority" here? or is everyone just posting their own links here?

[an0n]

Am I misunderstanding what actually classifies a "Google Authority" here? or is everyone just posting their own links here?
That's what these threads always wind up being. a post fest for oneself.

here is how you can tell an authority.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-27,GGGL:en&q=alive+directory

Alive Web Directory - Internet Site Resources
Powerful human edited web directory of quality, family-friendly, and spam-free sites organized via a comprehensive category structure.

www.alivedirectory.com/ - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
Business - www.alivedirectory.com/Business/
Submit Link - www.alivedirectory.com/submit.php
Health - www.alivedirectory.com/Health/
Internet - www.alivedirectory.com/Internet/
More results from www.alivedirectory.com

see the extra 5 urls underneath accompanying the main. that's how you can tell

[adacprogramming]

Is this a definitive answer? Any site considered by Google will have these extra links. If it does not have the links Google does not consider it an authority site?

As I test sites that I would think would be authorities, this seems to hold true.

[CReed]

I wouldn't say that it's definitive, but I'm going to guess that in Google's eyes these sites have a large enough presence or importance that they decide to show the additional links as a benefit to their users.

I doubt that you'll find many sites with a mediocre presence listed in the search results with the additional links. Seems the number of sites that now have the additional links is increasing, and from a users perspective I like the additional links displayed.

[coolsitez]

Shame on me, I really can not say if this indicates alivedirectory is an authority site as a directory.

It could be one of the factors though.

Obviously, Google hasn't given aviva much authority?

About.com
ask.com
nfl.com

didn't have extra 5 urls when I googled them.

[CReed]

Shame on me, I really can not say if this indicates alivedirectory is an authority site as a directory.

It could be one of the factors though.

Obviously, Google hasn't given aviva much authority?

About.com
ask.com
nfl.com

didn't have extra 5 urls when I googled them.

NFL (http://www.google.com/search?&q=nfl)
Ask (http://www.google.com/search?&q=ask)
About (http://www.google.com/search?&q=about)

[zangief]

coolsitez you have the search the domain (without the tld) or related subject
check them like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=tr&q=about&lr=
http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=ask
http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=nfl

[adnan]

I think those are called site links.

I remember reading somehting bout them somewhere.

[coolsitez]

Google doesn't even have 5 urls ;)

But with google.com it shows them.

Google also shows those extra urls for certain sites whether you type the domain + tld or domain only.

Anyone knows why?