List of Directories That Get The Most Google Traffic

DirectoriesWithGoogleTraffic.xls

Which directories are getting the most traffic from Google?

Well, thanks to some poor sod over at AOL, now we know!

Recipe:
1) Add one list of free directories from info.vilesilencer.com
2) Add one list of paid directories from strongestlinks.com
3) Sprinkle in some leaked search data from AOL (powered by Google)
4) Mix together and you get a list of which directories are actually getting the most search traffic from Google.

I hope it helps answer some of the common questions that are asked around here.

 

Sorry, I just want to make sure I understand this before I comment. Is this correct: You took the two lists of directories that you mention, ran the names through the leaked AOL data, and the leaked AOL data showed that these directories on your spreadsheet had the amount of traffic listed in the first column?

 

This is really and interesting list, [gets a green dot ].
I have heard before that joeant.com get’s a loot of traffic anybody knows why?
I don’t see dmoz there.

 

becuase its been around for years... and has alot of word of mouth links and its not a spamfarm.. joeant has been a fav of mine for a while... ive even gone there to find websites... its up there with dmoz IMO.. good luck trying to get a shitty site in joeant editors are good

 

I think the traffic from directory really depends on the site itself and the position on the link diectory. A link directory can bring site A lots of traffic, does NOT mean it can bring similar traffic to site B.

 

That's a really nice perspective study. Thanks for the work! BTW, in my humble opinion, DMOZ has not become what we all thought it would.

 

onlinedude - yes the numbers are the number of actual clickthroughs to the site

temp_12000 - you are totally right, plus a smaller directory may get less actual traffic, but your listing is more likely to be found than on, say, Yahoo

 

It's not suprising DMOZ is not there. Remember these are AOL stats. About 90% of their users seem to think the search box is the same as the address field on their browsers.

 

Very nice information, thank you for sharing. One question, the data shown at aol traffic colomn is that the actual number of visitors to that directory in 3 months time?

Btw, how did you parse these information? It's over 2 gig of data..

 

UPDATE: I missed DMOZ because the listing don't have any top level domain (i.e. http://dmoz.org). It actually comes in second on the list.

WhatiFind - The number is actual clickthroughs from AOL. Regarding the data, 20M records is no problem for SQL Server, especially once you've got things properly indexed. Most queries take less than a second on my ordinary desktop machine

 

ahhaha aol newbies

 

people still use aol???

 

i hear its free now and they only charge for tech support

 

yeah, aol is still going strong.

Aol is the kind of isp/browser older non tech-savvy people like, everything is simple and in one place.

 

There's one small note of caution for these figures: how many people use a search engine to find a directory? Usually you want to go directly from a search engine or a directory, to the site that interests you.

Nevertheless, these are interesting figures. I didn't realise Yahoo directory got so much more traffic than Dmoz, and how concentrated that traffic is in the top 5 directories. Chiff, 5th on the list, is getting more than twice as much traffic as the next 5 on the list combined.

 

Thank you for sharing.

 

Nice list you have made, thank you for sharing.

 

Something is not right. Alive Directory gets more than 20 visitors from AOL search each day. Does anyone know how old this data is?

 

Looks like its March, April and May 2006. Here is a good site to play with the data and see how much traffic different domains are getting. The random user function is pretty cool, too.

Not sure why your directory isn't showing up mystikmedia. If I had the DB accessible here at home I'd take a look for ya, but I don't.

 

Thanks. I will take a look.