The ONLY Way to Determine Whether a Web Directory is Quality

Pagination would be good. It's a little lighter than my normal yahoo count, but useful nonetheless

 

BTW: I found one more and this one is a bit lighter on browser:

http://www.rankalert.net/backlink-watch.php

 

Nice! can I retire yet? lol

 

http://backlinkwatch.com/ is an awesome tool !

 

Hmmm ... Google only shows a sample of links (not every link it knows about) and that sample is up to 3 months old. You really are not basing your decision on reliable information.

You might want to try the following ...

In Google search for info:directory.com

Look at web pages from the site ( same as using site: ). This will tell you how well the site is indexed and if there are supplemental pages. The more pages indexed and the fewer supplemental results the stronger the directory.

Then look at web pages that contain the term ( same as searching for the site in quotes ). This will tell you how many pages where the site is mentioned. It includes both links and non-link references. Even nofollow links have a value if someone clicks on them.

If you are really bent on page rank try the same searches at PageRank Search

As for Yahoo! the linkdomain:directory.com will get you into the Site Explorer and show you most of the pages that link to this site.

Now that you have all that info ... ask yourself three questions:
1. Is the site deeply indexed by Google
2. Is the site well linked for future PR and traffic.
3. Are the links better than mine.

If you answer YES to all these questions then get a link as quick as you can, even if you have to pay for it.

 

Just tried that, http://www.a2zspain.com/ was listed in LinkLister on 3 March it is now showing as a backlink in Google and Yahoo:

http://www.google.com/search?q=link:http://www.a2zspain.com/&ie=UTF-8

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.c...&bwm=i&bwms=p&bwmf=u&fr=sexp-rd&fr2=seo-rd-se

So as I suspected LinkLister is a quality directory

 

I didn't say they wouldn't count them - merely that they wouldn't report them all... that's a well known fact.

Checking Alive backlinks here Yahoo shows 794,087 - Google shows 12,600. Do you actually think Google doesn't know about the other 781,487 links? They only show a sampling. You can check any site you want and Yahoo will always show more backlinks than Google.

I don't have time to sift through and count how many of those are sitewide backlinks that they are showing - let me know what you find out. And then let me know how much weight they are giving them. And after that - let us all know when the next PR update will be.

 

I think that google shows backlinks that they think are more relative to the site's link that is listed, and Yahoo shows everything, including the statewide links.

Msn is always shows the lowest, the purpose of these from is not to merely determine if the site directory that you list on can provide you a backlink from google or all there yahoo, google, and msn.

 

I dunno 'bout the relevance issue either - looking at IBLs for my sites show a sampling of links from all over - not necessarily those closely related to my niche... in fact some of the most relevant are not shown.

 

I don't know about you guys, but I just lick my thumb, put it up into the air, and then go with the wind.

/me shrugs...

 

The fact is --it I think it does not matter how many backlinks you have --what matters is what PR strength you have on those backlinks --backing your site.

I saw a site with only few backlinks from around 26 domains that has PR8.
So most of the backlinks are useless in terms of PR --but quite good for SERPs.
Many big sites with over 10K Google backlinks have they sites linked to only few hundred domains/sites.

 

why not use seomoz.org to check pagestrength? most of things are there.

 

These days both Iwebtool and seomoz's script are horrendous they need to put a lot of hard work to get people serous. PS is always missing something

 

I have yet to get this tool to work correctly one single time from Asia, the results are always in-complete

 

Isnt the safest way to just submit to all the free ones and the cheap paid ones?

 

Depends o

n what you want--if you want Good PR --you must have good PR backlinks and except few free directories-- you will get only those only from paid directories.

 

inner page's PR can say something about the directory...if you got PR 5 subcatgory, then you met a strong directory

 

I'm working on it man... im working on it

 

Can you wait for me ?

 

I submitted to plenty of pr0 directories that ended up gaining PR later on. Theres plenty of free directories that already have good PR.

I would rather buy a link directly on a PR6 blog than buy a link in a PR6 directory.