How to find our good/quality web directory..??

The different types of matter on which we can judge a directory are as follows:

1.. PAGE RANK:- Page Rank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. This is the criteria allotted by Google. It depends on two factors namely "On Page" and "Off Page". Basically we can judge a directory on the basis of its PR. The PR should be a decent one. It does not mean that we are avoiding the zero PR directory sites. Today's zero PR may be tommorow's 5 PR/ 6 PR.

Basically a directory site should at least be cached by Google and have some decent PR.

2.. Spider Friendly Links:- Spider friendly links are the links which can be spidered by the search engine robots e.g. Google bot is the robot of Google. It means the directory site should provide static link i.e. it means the url of the directory from where we get the link should not contain any "?" or "&" mark. These are clearly an example of dynamic link as they generally pass some query to the database and gather the information from there and shows these in the result page. So we should avoid these types of directories which include such type of url.

The other criteria for spider friendly link is that the link should not redirect to our site, it should be a direct one. It means if we place the mouse over the link to our site, the url of our site should be clearly visible in the status bar. For this we can also check the source of that particular page, whether they are giving us a direct link or they are redirecting to our site.

3.. Easy Submission Procedure:- The submission procedure of that directory site should be as easy as possible. Some directories have a lengthy submission procedure which sometimes irritates us. Some of the directories require user login before we can submit any link. So the submission procedure might not be complex enough.

4.. Well Organized Categories:- The categories of that directory site should be well organized meaning it does not contain too many or too less number of categories. There should be a balance between the number of categories. The categories should also be proper, meaning the sub category food does not come under category directories.

5.. Should Contain Good Links:- Generally the links in any category should be good enough i.e. does not contain links to bad neighborhood sites. Bad neighborhood sites means the illegal sites, adult sites, pharmacy sites, gambling sites etc. If the site is containing some adult site or gambling site then it should contain in the proper category only.

6.. How Old That Directory IS:- We have to check the creation date of that directory also, as that directory might be a new one. We can check the age of the directory from www.whois.sc. As we all know OLD IS GOLD so we should try to give emphasize on the older sites. Well, it does not mean that we should avoid the newer ones, as later they will also become old.

7.. Alexa Rank:- Though not a big deal but alexa rank is the criteria of a directory which tells us how much visitors they are getting. We can check the alexa rank at www.searchbliss.com/alexa-rank-tool.htm

So, depending on all these factors we can easily judge whether it is worthy to submit in a directory or not.

Thanks
W.S

 

@ ? and & mark comment noticed how even at dp itself there is a "?". So does that make dp not seo friendly at all?


@ Alexa Rank thingy, just a correct it does not mean how many visitors you get it shows how many webmasters wanting to submit their websites come, visitors and websmasters are not different but there are those who get paid to do submissions and if they come daily for new submission thats not really traffic, its just old friend of urs so like u said alexa rank is not a big deal and it certainly does not show the number of vistors.

 

Not exactly. But you will get more value if you get link from without ( @ ? & = ).

Yep right you are... Then better to use > Google Analytics

Thanks and regards
W.S

 

Pagerank is not dependent on any factors other than links; there is no "On page" factors.

 

Well for those complaining, newbs like me in directories found these tips pretty useful! Thanks!

 

Best way to increase pr is to do maximum link exchnage with qaulity sites and list ur site in maximum directories hmm but any way good ideas from all DP members

 

But would u be happy to learn the wrong stuff rather and maybe later on teach the same to other? We complain cause we do not want noobs to learn the wrong stuff. For example i never heard of On page and Off Page factors for PR calculations like creed mentioned.

 

So, you really didn't read at all? Or this image was more suitable response to that?

I have seen you put it in several other threads. My first reaction was, admittedly, lol.

 

Alexa Ranking--????

Well --i consider it a worthless tool How can my 12 days old directory out-do my
5 month old directory?

Do you have answers?

 

I have collected from my article directory.. And for ur kind info A.V is a friend of mine.
Please check the article here..

http://0001articleworld.com/article_detail.php?id=77&aid=637

And this is my article directory:: 0001articleworld.com

 

Regarding 6. Is that the age of the domain or the age of the site since first indexed by the search engines?

As for some time i was thinking that the age of a site as many people regularly talk about was referring to when the domain was purchased, but then recently from what i read, it appears that its down to the age since first indexed.

 

deal with him

 

Site age and time first indexed shouldnt really be to far apart, say a month or two...Although another factor that does come into play is dropped domains, they may say it was registered in say 2000 although it was actually re-registered in 2006 after being inactive.. so does that make it 1 year old or 7 years old?

Hard to know what an SE might think, there's probably a few variables that can come into play too.

If unsure on the quality I think checking the backlink profile and 'rankability' of the site would be a reasonable measure.

 

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