Title says it all. Don't worry about the search engine optimization. Wordpress is very good in it, all I want to know that if I make a custom directory with some custom features that are not on traditional phpld directories then can those features be handled by wordpress? Or phpld can also handle any kind of custom feature?
I would likely just stick with phpld. If you need help this fellow is skilled and very nice to deal with. http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/forum/member.php?u=259 Or his site and phpld mods is here http://www.monster-submit.com/phpld/ I bought that stuff a few weeks ago. Pretty sweet deal really. hope that helps, Nigel