Fattest List of Directories

I've seen a list of directories (links/blogs/articles) that amounted to 15000 unique domains.

Anyone seen bigger?

Or more interestingly, anyone seen a comparable list that's categorised by niche?

 

I've also seen lists with 10k to 15k in them. However, when you start actually running through the list you find a lot of dead links and junk sites that aren't directories or don't have a directory on them. So I'm not a believer in the big lists.

 

Yea, that is exactly what I was going to say. Just look at lists that have a few hundred, those are more easily updated.

 

I have a script that checks whether the site

1) resolves to an IP
2) whether the "home" page is good, and if a redirect, whether its in the same domain
3) whether there is a directory "fingerprint" on it.

From what I see, at step two, around 5% are duds. I think ~10-15% will fail in step 3.

I understand where you are both coming from, though I don't see the problem applying to the majority (unless the list is old).

Perhaps if we considered "1 IP per directory" then the list would be smaller?

 

Go for quality not quantity. For maintained lists:
http://info.vilesilencer.com/

 

I'm not sure what you mean by quality...

 

Vilesilencer lists are good quality because Dan and other submitters actively go through the lists and remove directories that don't make the cut. He's been filtering out more strictly those directories that don't show an acceptable degree of editorial control. There's minimal advantage to be had in getting into a directory that every spammer can get a listing in, after all.

The new site will feature a top 100 list, so if you only have time to submit to a few directories you can really prioritise your time.

 

This site only has around 700 directories, the biggest I think is web-directories.ws, which has thousands of directories.

 

thanks hheng, very useful. I came across that one before.

Here's another one
http://www.directorysnob.com/ - 22700 directories

Having ran a script against this list, the "working" ones (ones that return an IP at least) have a total count of ~21000

 

thanks for that gala will have a look need to put my directory about

 

At Linksadmin.net we have bots working with caches of each directory, looking for changes in available submission types, latest updates, IP, PR and many other things that we consider relevant. It isn't the biggest list (Less than 8000 directories), but probably is the most fresh in order to find active directories to submit.

If you can try it, any suggestion is more than welcome.

 

I came across that onece, but i couldn't bookmark that.

 

that's insane no. of directories. just curious how long would it take to submit to all of them...

 

thanks for that gala will have a look need to put my directory about yes I also....