According to this site's review: http://www.best-web-directories.com/paid-directories.htm A well designed site. Their have sponsored listings that appear above the regular paid listings. Sep 2005: This site was recently re-indexed by Google after being banned for a week or two. I can't seem to find any evidence that the site is ranking well. Mar 2006: Site still not ranking well in in Google search results They give it 2 stars out of 5.
I used to submit to Site Sift, but I do not like how they add your site in decending order so your site appears last. Plus they really cranked up the prices as well.
-descending order is the fairest.. it allows for people who submit first to stay near the top. (more so.. a thank you to long time customers) BTW.. there is always the Sponsored Listing option. -raising the price was the best thing we have done... it prevents people from submitting there spammy shitty sites to our directory. Our directory is not for everyone... if you want to be in a directory that is for everyone then I think you will find plenty of them out there that accept every site that is submitted... we are not like that! One thing you will also find in our directory is some of the top online brands around. A few we have added for free b/c we felt the quality was great but then you will find some of the top online sites that have paid for a review: http://www.eharmony.com/ http://www.carsdirect.com/ http://www.autobytel.com/ http://www.realestateabc.com/ http://www.seoinc.com/ http://www.libertymedical.com/ http://www.motortrend.com/ There are many more... I'm just too lazy to look. My point is... we are not for the little webmaster that wants there site in every directory know to man... and we DO NOT include all sites! Site Sift is not for everyone.
Hey if you have the money that can spend on submitting your site to Site Sift, I'd say go for it. The directory has such high rankings and traffic that you can only receive and see positive results.
not meant to be offensive... I just want everyone to understand that Site Sift is not for everyone. Most people that submit for the purpose of PR are really submitting for the wrong reasons.
Site-Sift is the one of the best values out there for directory submissions. I had a new site that was 2 months old, with no inbound links. I submitted to site-sift just before bigdaddy. That site went from a PR0 to a PR4 when bigdaddy kicked in. Site sift was the only dir I had submitted to.
Its my favorite directory, many categories with few links which is very beneficial imo. The price helps it keep it this way so im glad the price is this high.
If I want to submit to one of the smaller catagories (7 links now) is it still beneficial? The catagory is only a pr4 itself.
I bought another link today, the category was totally empty and PRless... but we know that the google toolbar sucks =P