How to check if a directory is important

For those who don't use these techniques already:
http://www.busybits.com/files/directorychecking.php

 

Pagestrength already answers you those questions without you having to look it up. All you gotta do is look at backlinks and youll know how often spiders crawl the site

 

You are wrong, the number of backlinks can be very high for some sites but they are not often crawled and don't even have high PR if those backlinks are spammy or unimportant.

 

I would stick the the page Strength on this one. The site gives no information unless I'm missing something

 

Sorry show me a site that has 100,000 backlinks according to yahoo and hasnt been cached by google in the past week.

All major directories last catch was on dec 12 or dec 10 it seems after a quick check.

 

It's not only about main pages of directories, it's about categories and subcategories...there is where you get the link after all, not on the main page

 

Your too picky mate

 

I would have to agree. That's like saying which directory is better because their sports section got cached today.

 

Yes, method 1 can be about luck sometimes, but I've been constantly checking on some directories considered of "top" and their cached pages were always very old(I dont want to name any)

And about method 2, backlinks from some directories show in the backlinks list even after the scrapped backlinks which are the lowest quality...if you know what I mean

 

Im curious about your sig, it came up with busybits your previous post and now not anymore

 

So, now all we gotta do is raise up our pagestrength.

 

Uhm if you see it just as that youll fall in the same hole other directories have fallen now... i see many going around spamming non english wikipedias to get wiki links... and other unethical stuff... just build up backlinks and take care of your directory.