Identifying good directories

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    IF PR does go out of the window, how are we going to identify if a directory is good from a search engine perspective?

    I know it's probably a 'what if' type of question, but directories in the past have marketed themselves on PR alone.

    Darren
     
    DarrenC, May 28, 2005 IP
  2. ROAR

    ROAR Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    Probally just take some sort of a wait and see approach. Since it will be hard to quantify quality of links....just make it a numbers game...
     
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    NeoGen Writer

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    Given this "whatif" question, the only aspect that would rule is traffic and type of traffic.
     
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  4. DarrenC

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    webhost, well how could a webmaster measure traffic. No offense but the directory owner could say hey guys I get 100,000 uniques a month, when really then get 10 lol

    Edit... could sites like Alexa FINALLY become useful?
     
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    To me its number of pages indexed, relevancy, structure of urls, SEO friendlyness of links.

    The future may be public stats as thats the only way to show uniques.
     
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    I agree, number of pages indexed and friendlyness of links is a couple of ways. I would also say to a certain extent the time of the last cache, some directories have no links to internal pages so they are only indexed on a monthly basis, pages with internal links should be indexed and cached more often. However, the cache of a website can be screwed sometimes so dont just rely on this.
     
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    The fact that there are hundreds of free directories that allow me to point links to my sites, with the anchor text I choose, is quite attractive enough, regardless of whether PR will still be an issue or not.
     
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    dfsweb Active Member

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    I would probably do the following:
    1. Do a site: query in Google to see that all pages are being cached
    2. Do a link: query in www.Alltheweb.com to see that the number of links are fairly high to ensure that it's a well-established site. Most new sites would have under 100 links in AlltheWeb and established ones would have more. If you are exchanging links with these sites, I guess you could compare their BLs with yours. Ex: If you have 500 BLs and the directory has 1,000 then you should exchange links with them.
    3. Ensure that the directory structure is SEO friendly.
    4. Ensure that the links are SEO friendly (No redirects)
    5. Ensure that the site doesn't use "rel=nofollow" tags (Highly unlikely though)
     
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    Same here, but I am gradually changing what i am doing now..
    I think i would benefit most if I choose a good directory to submit to.
     
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