Been reading a lot about paid directories recently and saw this article on Aviva Strongest Directories but searching around found this as well alternative strongest directories Any opinions? The difference between the results is huge on some.
I would like to read the article, but the link seems to be broken, at least at this moment on my side...
The difference is because about half of the time, the page strength tool does not pull all of the data points (e.g. often alexa is missed), giving a result that is lower than the site's actual page strength. Whenever I do an update of the directory list, I make sure that all of the data points are pulled before making a change to the list.
Well thats a crock of s&*t its down again so I just copied the numbers part of the article to which i was referring to (serves them right for crap hosting). These are the numbers they came back with for some of the directories, I found it interesting cause of the huge difference between some of the numbers. Page Strength 9.5 dir.yahoo.com Page Strength 8.5 dmoz.org bubl.ac.uk Page Strength 8 botw.org Page Strength 7.5 www.business.com www.joeant.com www.avivadirectory.com Page Strength 7 www.2yi.net www.relmaxtop.com www.uncoverthenet.com Page Strength 6.5 www.stpt.com/directory/ www.alivedirectory.com (note only 2.5 without the www. which is a wider gap than any of the others). www.sevenseek.com www.elib.org www.ezilon.com www.haabaa.com www.skaffe.com www.gii.in Page Strength 6 directory.v7n.com www.chiff.com www.gimpsy.com directory.sootle.com www.apahcinc.org www.directorydump.com www.elegantdirectory.com Page Strength 5.5 www.wowdirectory.com www.e-topic.com Page Strength 4.5 www.blogtagstic.com www.mozdex.com/directory Page Strength 4 www.tygo.com/dir www.goongee.com www.kwikgoblin.com Page Strength 3 goguides.com (yeah 6.5 on the original which has got me a bit stumped!!!)
Well, you can believe that or you can check for yourself. For instance, goguides: http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength/www.goguides.org Right now, the tool is showing a page strength of 2. The tool is saying that isn't in the top 10 in Google for its title, but a search reveals it's number 1: http://www.google.com/search?q=GoGuides.Org Directory & Search The tool is saying that the site has no pagerank, but checking this shows a pagerank of 6: http://livepr.raketforskning.com/?u=http://www.goguides.org