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Welcome to the Web Directory Resource

 

This web directory resource lens is aimed at finding the best places to obtain quality lists of search engine friendly directories (mainly) and resources for software.

My aim is to help improve website and web directory development by pointing you in the right directions, e.g. for standards compliancy, design issues and even software.

I threw out my telephone directory this week and it was still shrink wrapped (hadn't been opened the whole year). I had only used online whitepages and search engines to find businesses or contacts. This proved to me that it is even more important these days to market your business and promote your website.

My name is Chris, from The 100 Lists Web Directory, and I hope you can gain something from this lens! Please contact me and let me know of good directory resources and/or if you have any questions.

I have also just launched SEO Voter and there is a directory category that will provide a great source of top directories voted by the users.

 

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Top Tips for Submitting to Web Directories 

Tips and Tricks



These are just some of the top tips that I have used. I will add to this list as often as possible because it is probably the most important list! I will also try and keep them in order of importance.
  1. Create a new .txt file somewhere on your pc and name it something like mysite.txt. Add all your site details (title, description, URL, email and keywords) to this file. This way, you don't have to continually retype all the details into each submission form, but instead you can copy the details from this file. I actually have a number of sites in my text file and it assists tremendously.
  2. Before submitting to a directory, check in what order the directory is listing the sites. If alphabetical, try and find a title that starts with a letter closer to the beginning of the alphabet. Remember numbers are lists before letters too! Don't forget, you need to be careful with this though, some directories may not approve a title that does not reflect the URL or site topic.
  3. I find it handy to have a Gmail account (or any of the free mail accounts) to catch all the responders and approval emails. This keeps all these types of emails out of my personal emails on my pc. I found that this has helped me too in that my Gmail account has a nice categorising system where I can use categories like "pending", "accepted", "accounts" and "other".
  4. Always check the Google PageRank (PR) of the home page of the directory you're submitting to. This will give you a fair idea of how popular the site is with Google. PR can be checked using the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer or check it on any site that has a PR checker.

    You can also use the free Firefox web browser and this includes the PR indicator.
  5. Directories that have rel="nofollow" in their links to sites listed are not passing on any search engine ranking values to those sites. Hopefully, these directories can still provide the usually traffic from human visitors. Check the page source to see if this restriction is in the links.
  6. Most directories that charge for submissions use PayPal. If you are looking at spending some of your hard-earned money on submissions to directories that are not free, I would recommend that you create yourself a PayPal account (or similar, if you haven't got one already) to save you time. You can dedicate funds to submissions by adding whatever amount you want to limit yourself to into your PayPal account. Then each submission to a directory that uses PayPal is much easier.

Web Directory Sources 

Great Source of Strong Web Directories

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  • Now this has to be the best spot to get a list of top search engine friendly web directories! Tell Dan I sent you...
    Link: info.vilesilencer.com
  • Aviva Directory has put together a great list of "Strongest Directories". These are ranked accourding to SEOmoz's page strength tool...
    Link: www.avivadirectory.com/strongest-directories/
  • Quanta has put together a couple of lists that only include "the cream of the crop" free directories...
    Link: www.quantawebdesign.com
  • Top Directories lists its member's sites by the number of inbound hits. Not the best way to rank directories, but there are quite a few directories to use...
    Link: www.topdirectories.info
  • SEO friendly, free, non-redirect, non-reciprocal, general and with indexed subpages.
    Link: www.addurl.nu
  • This website has been created to help webmasters and site promoters find the top internet directories to submit their sites to.
    Link: www.best-web-directories.com
  • SEO friendly paid directory list ordered by PageRank. Information provided includes Google backlinks, Alexa ranking and pricing information.
    Link: www.paiddirectorylist.com
  • Directory Critic is a link building resource and list search engine friendly web and article directories for webmasters to use a site promotion tools.
    Link: www.directorycritic.com
  • Linkforever has come up with a great list of what they think are the top 50 directories!
    Link: www.linkforever.net/top-directories.php
  • "Value Directories is the Biggest Directories list featuring both Free and Paid directories in our database.We also have listed Niche Based directories example sports directories, health directories and gambling directories." - Value Directories List
    Link: www.valuedirectories.info
  • One of the top directories! V7N Web Directory...
    Link: directory.v7n.com

Your Top Web Directories 

Please vote for and suggest your favourite and strongest web directories

If you add your directory to this list, please could you take the time to add this directory resource to your directory, many thanks!


http://www.mywikibiz.com

MyWikiBiz is a new directory where you can author more...4 points

1 Link Directory: SEO friendly website directory

A human-edited SEO friendly general website direct more...3 points

100 Lists Web Directory

The 100 Lists Web Directory is a website1 point

Web-Directories

Best directory of directories!1 point

Linkd.info

Fast web2 directory!1 point

Link Moz

Huge link database!1 point

Good PR web directory

Good PR directory lists quality web sites in vario more...1 point

http://www.internet-directory-web.com/

An authoritative source of websites, in an SEO fri more...0 points

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Web Directory Traffic 

List of traffic providers...

This list shows the top web directories that have been providing the most traffic. Note that some of this sites may be sites only helpful to other directories and the length of the list may vary. I will update this list as often as possible (probably monthly). Last updated: Sept 2007
  1. www.avivadirectory.com
  2. www.topdirectories.info
  3. www.seocompany.ca
  4. www.thetopsites.net
  5. www.a1directorysearch.com
  6. www.isedb.com
  7. www.1linkdirectory.com
  8. www.web-directories.ws
  9. www.joeant.com
  10. www.directorycritic.com
  11. www.directorylist.org
  12. www.iti.com.au
  13. www.707directory.com

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Which Directory Software? 

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SEO Voter's Feed 

Article, News and Directory Feed

A large part of directory submitting and making sure that your site/directory is popular and ranked well in search engines. This is all part of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). SEO Voter is a social bookmarking site that list popular directories, SEO news and articles current and up 'n coming...

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SEO Blog 

Search Engine Optimisation Blog

Search engine optimisation (SEO) blog providing tips and techniques to promote your website in search engines.

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Web Directory Software 

I won't be able to test all the software, but I will do my best and list the better softwares to use here. Again, please let me know of any resources that I may have missed!
  • PHP Link Directory seems to be a popular one and has a long list of features. They also have a free (limited) version.
    Platform: PHP, MySQL
    Link: www.phplinkdirectory.com
  • "Using eSyndiCat Directory Software your website can achieve top rank and take the leading positions in the most popular Search Engines!" - eSyndiCat
    Platform: PHP, MySQL
    Link: www.esyndicat.com
  • "phpMyDirectory.com is focused on developing the multi-purpose, powerful, full-featured and secure Business Directory script based on PHP scripting language and mySQL database as a backend." - phpMyDirectory
    Platform: PHP, MySQL
    Link: www.phpmydirectory.com
  • "WSN Links provides all the tools to run an SEO-optimized links directory and exchange links to build traffic, but its capabilities extend far beyond that." - WSN Links
    Platform: PHP, MySQL, SQLite
    Link: scripts.webmastersite.net/wsnlinks/
  • "Is the thought of building your category structure worrying you? Don't worry, we have a variety of pre-populated category structures for you to populate your directory in a wide range of niche categories..." - PhPLynx
    Platform: PHP, MySQL
    Link: www.phplynx.com
  • "OpenLD is a free extension-based directory script written in PHP." - OpenLD
    Platform: PHP, MySQL
    Link: www.openld.com

Reader Feedback 

tmackarney

Good job. I wanted to see more lenses by you but I guess you're still working on them.

Posted August 01, 2008

Aice

hi nice lens you got in here ^_^ I will surely link you in my lens and 5 stars for you

Posted February 16, 2008

AKdude

Excellent resource! I'm glad I found this lens. Thanx

Posted January 05, 2008

DebsW

I'm really impressed - thanks for taking the time to put this together!

Posted October 01, 2007

budokon

Hi Tom,

This is just what I've been looking for on SEO. Graet resources. Thanks a lot. 5 stars from me.

Posted September 13, 2007

bjdixon

Some great resources here. Thanks for the links - I'm sure they're gonna be useful.

Posted May 15, 2007

Saras_Texture_Crafts

really useful information - thank you for sharing.

Posted May 15, 2007

dynn

great list of directories.

Posted April 14, 2007

wineo

Check out the new top web directory list; it is all driven by your votes and contributions.

Posted February 09, 2007

DebsW

Nice lens, thanks for the handy tips and cool directories info.

Posted February 02, 2007

 
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