Its true that Ther's a trend among Seo experts to lower the importance of inbound links and reciprocal placement in web directories. Ok, so content is the new king - there are more related content sites that have a web directory/sites index with "add url" / "add site" options , with specified categories. A link pointing to a site from an index like that, can be strong and in fact relevant and indexed. The thing is if you have submitted your link to a directory in a site that deals with travel and tourism, but due to the fact that your site deals with beer related issues you have placed it under food & beverage categories (as you should have). but most likely these categories on a travel & tourism site have a low rate of visitors and search engines pick up on that, and give rank accordingly. On the other hand there are designated web directories were all the categories Cary the same ranking weight - as long as you don't use the same link description in all the directories (Google panelized a number of high placed ranking sites drooping them down as far as six places - for that reason) it is still one of the most reliable methods of site promoting-if Google has panelized sites for doing it wrong-probably ranks for doing it right. I have added some good directories in the list below It will be great to get some comments on them and their efficiency. I have spent some time checking them out and they seam to be relevant http://www.4ukshopping.co.uk/ - Our shop is listed in 4 UK Shopping http://www.anaximanderdirectory.com/ - Anaximander Directory http://www.gifts45.com - gifts45 gifts&shopping directory http://www.dir4u.info/ - dir4U.info Web Directory http://www.directoryspider.net/ - Directory Spider http://www.000directory.com.ar/ - 000 Directory http://www.0mg.us/ - 0MG! 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In what way did you gauge them being good? what are your guidelines to help you make the decision for the above list? So that i can know too what is good.
I have placed a link in each and every one of them with reciprocals to sites that i promote and all of them got me listed for free and in a reletively short time when i'll get some more i'll post them In general i only post info after i validate it
Good idea that you have used them yourself first before posting them here, i haven't looked myself yet but are you saying you went for the reciprocal option on all of these? are none offering straight forward free listings? Being accepted in them doesn't alone make them good, if you can get a backlink without a recip its better in most cases.
I picked two of the sites in your list at random. While I'm glad that they appear to be honoring reciprocal link exchanges, there was nothing there that would have put it on my "good directory" list. They were both just another directory with no content other than the listings themselves. One had some sort of popup on every page that Firefox thankfully didn't load. May I suggest you dig through this section and look for the threads that discuss what makes a good directory as at least with the two I looked at I can't say that they were anything to talk about. By any chance do you own these sites?