10 leading directories

HI,
I know you can publish you site to hundreds of directories, but let's say I want to register to only 20...

My point - from all the hundreds of directories, probably most are "not too good" , while there are few the are most beneficial.... the same 80/20 rule.

What would you think are the first 10 / 20 directories - for

1. General Software tools.
2. General indexes
3. SEO tools in specific ?

any thanks,

Uri

 

I don't know if this site will help you or not...http://www.thebestdirectories.com/Best-Directories/ also http://www.greatdirectories.org/

 

You should specify if you are looking for free directories or pay for review directories.

 

Usually those who are looking for paid directories know where to look for them, and also how to select them.
I rarely saw people asking in here about paid web directories.

 

directory submission is preaty much useless, havent got any good result sfrom it.

 

If you write your descriptions like your forum posts I'm not surprised.

 

For sites of any theme I'd personally go for Dmoz, Best of the Web, Yahoo Directory and Business.com if you can afford it.

 

Maybe best to goggle and check the PR of some good ones

 

yup,there are some goods ones there..pretty sure my directory is in all of them..

 

Thanks for your help!

Christian

 

thanks for the information...

 

What I do is try to find the directories that get traffic from the search engines. Start with ones with high traffic and high PR then go search google for some of their page titles or unique text from their pages and see if the page where you'll be listed is ranked. If they've got good traffic and their pages rank for page titles then you've got a good chance that it's a high quality directory that will pass on some serious link juice. In addition, you get a handful of hits to your site each month as a bonus.

You can use this directory search to help you find the quality directories.

 

I think paid directory will give your site backlinks in a short time make sure that you choose a right category .

 

Problem with most paid directories like btow.org and Yahoo! Directory, etc. is you just can't get them to give you a "keyword-rich" title. So the anchor text is not a real good keyword phraze...at least in the case of my site. Even though my official site title has great keywords in it, they usually just use my domain name for the site title...which has no good keywords. Frustrating.

 

Joeant can also be consider, it is not very difficult to list (free and paid both options are available)

 

Quick question about description text in paid dir.'s listings: do you know if the description gets spidered by bots like googlebot? Or do the search engine bot just spider a listing's title and follow the link? Also, how important is choosing a good keyword rich category, even if your title has no good keywords in it. Any SEO experts available to explain how this works with paid directories, please?

 

My purely PERSONAL top most 5 directories are -

Dmoz
Business.com
Dir.yahoo.com
Botw.org
Romow.com

They are the strongest and popular directories that I know of.

Next level - I might put -

Dirjournal.com
Avivadirectory.com
Authoritydirectory.com

Most might not agree with my list. But its purely my personal.

My selection criteria is - the amount of time bots take to index these directories. (Please refer to the image)

I have been following popular directories for close to 3 months now taking this factor into account.

Whenever, any time I search the indexing info of my top5 directories - I get that more than 3/4 pages are showing time-stamp of the pages. Whereas - the last 3 directories show them occasionally.

This theory of mine is purely from Google's point of view. So more quality links from high quality sites- more quicker bots find your pages and index them.

There might be other directories with similar characteristics - but I am not aware of them. If anybody knows - please let me know - I'll include them in my personal list.

 

Got this gift few minutes back -


My Reaction is -- OHHHHHHHHHH------LAAAAAAAAAA-LAAAAAAAAAA

I care little of what others think. I know what I do and what I talk.

Besides - If I knew them and they paid me - my sites would been listed on all of those directories at discounted prices. Unfortunately, my sites are listed on only Aviva (2 - I paid $75 for them) and Romow ( 1 site, $25 at that time, I know the owner of romow.com is Peter, but I only had one e-mail exchange so far with him and I reckon he is from my country - मेरा भारत Mahan )


Can anybody introduce me to the owners of those directories? I promise I will pay them 30% commission for what they would pay me to promote them.

 

I am really at pain to see there is no one to refute my logic.

I expected more fireworks after that RED REP.

Common man - lets start a constructive argument - which might benefit us all and give us a real direction about the quality of a directory --

rather than bragging ourselves.

All of us know these days that PR is nothing but an illusion ( I was once - one of the die-hard supporter of PR for a directory) - so whats the alternative way to exist for web directories which has been questioned time and again by "all & sundry" !
What I want is --

"An standardized and clear-cut direction of the whole directory industry" - and its only through discussions that we can give it the STATUS it deserves.
We might have different opinions - outlooks, visions -- but we can always exchange it here. We can really give it a real direction which IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) - is going no-where except people being duped by scammers with dropped domains.

Common guys! Pls

 

Has anyone here actually gotten their site listed on free directories without first giving the directory a link back? Care to share your secrects to success, pretty please? I have spent several 12-hour days submitting sites to free directories and found most just want a link back or money...even though they offer the option of "free link without a link back to them." Maybe that option flags a site for automatic deletion, huh. Sceptical about free directories!