was thinking about submitting a site to this directory but then checked google to see how many pages it had indeded Can't say it would be worth the cost if they only have five pages indexed...geez
Your information is incorrect. the site has 2,170 pages indexed by google. You were using the wrong command to check indexed pages.
you shouldn't believe it! its got like 2000 http://www.google.com/search?q=site...fox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&filter=0
You should search it in this way to get the actual no. of pages indexed : site:http://www.alivedirectory.com The way u had searched gave 979 results for http://forums.digitalpoint.com But actual pages indexed is 329,000
Also, searching with Yahoo! rather than Google gives much better results. Google purposefully shows misleading backlink information.
Exactly, and also g Lazy Bots are getting slower day after day, so you'd better use any online tool to check on the real backlinks count.