Can you define what is good directory for you? same price with botw?same pr?same traffic rank? unique content?be as old as botw? if u define that then i believe many will respond with sugestions.
thats high standars then we have: DMOZ Yahoo www.iozoo.com www.hotvsnot.com www.dirjournal.com there are some others,other people will post
Don't waste money...there are many free directories with high PR's....look for them. Links from directories can't do anything to your search results.
The last statement directories can't do anything to your search results can you expand and tell us how you reach to this conclusion? maybe because you follow your advices? there are many free directories
2 years ago there was a link submission campain I did for a site I owned and there was a good result for my site as it got ahead in the search engines. I am not sure if now this works already, as many of these links dirs are nothing but link farms that search engines don't like anymore.
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