What Makes a Good Directory

Hi,

I am looking to submit my ecommerce store to some paid directories that have been suggested to me on this forum.

However, how can I tell for myself if a directory is worth listing my ecommerce site in the clothing/mens category?

What traits or indicators denote a good directory?

Thanks

Jimbob

 

I wrote this a little while back - The Distinctive Traits of a Quality Web Directory for occassions like this.

 

Excellent, thank you very much.

Jimbob

 

The primary thing you want to look for is if the topic you will be submitted to is cached by the search engines and its frequency. If it’s cached but not within the past couple of months or so then don’t waste your time. If it's not cached move on to another directory. Are the submissions of quality and edited? You want to be in a directory not a link farm. A glance at the topics will easily show you the answer.

 

Thanks for that.

How do I find out when a directory was cached?

Jimbob

 

The most important thing of a directory is its pr value, and also it shall be indexed by google.

 

Use the Google toolbar page rank button. Click on it and then click on last cached snapshot of page.

 

Or you can enter the command directly into the search box at Google:

cache:[url here]

cache:dir.yahoo.com

Or try using the info: operator and you can see other information for the site including the cache, pages indexed and a sampler of their inbound links:

info:dir.yahoo.com

Yahoo! Directory
The first large scale directory of the Internet. Lists sites categorised by topic and location.
dir.yahoo.com/

Google can show you the following information for this URL:

• Show Google's cache of dir.yahoo.com
• Find web pages that are similar to dir.yahoo.com
• Find web pages that link to dir.yahoo.com
• Find web pages from the site dir.yahoo.com
• Find web pages that contain the term "dir.yahoo.com"

 

Most of the people search stuff through search engines (Google etc.), so directory listing is valuable only if it is SEO friendly and helps in building the PR or appears up in search results.

 

There are two things that make a directory good: traffic and SEO. Some directories you do for traffic. Others you do for SEO.

 

and is adnsese is disabled or enabled.
If enabled this is means that the owner is making money from Adsense on the web internet online directory and the traffic is needed to improve the amount of incoming one-way-money.

 

I look for niche directories that are going to pass on traffic to my website. If the directory isn't going to send me traffic I'm not willing to pay for a listing.

 

Thanks for the nice article, enjoyed reading it.

 

nice article, enjoyed reading it