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Not even Its Majesty Google can really tell how much a listing at the ODP will influence the PageRank of a Web site. Complaining about ODP's shortcomings won't help much, to succeed it's better to learn the ropes. Learn how to write for a Web directory.
Volunteer-Edited Directories
that accept beginners
Listed are Web directories with an open structure where a beginner can learn the ropes.
- 3apes.com
- An open project to generate a freely licensed database of web links, founded by Jimmy Wales. No signup, bookmarklet to add sites, no guidelines, categories built on the fly.
- Zeal.com Has Landed 20060328 :(
- J. Fischer collects links where sad ex-zealots can find each other. Was: "Web directory buillt by Internet enthusiasts, includes ratings, reviews. Signup automatic, extensive guidelines."
- Skaffe
- International directory with family safe viewing filtered for spam and adult content.
- JoeAnt.com
- Searchable Web sites index built by people for free. Signup automatic for a section of the directory; short guidelines, internal forum.
- Site Library
- A high quality and user-friendly Web directory. Includes also a Link Collectors Community, and a Bookmarks Parking Directory. Short guidelines, public forum. Stats: categories: 1135, sites listed: 5073, pending: 2158.
- IllumiRate
- An international Internet directory staffed by volunteer editors from around the world.
- Open Grid
- A new way to index the Internet where the public decides what gets published. Public forum.
- MavicaNET
- Multilingual Search Catalog. Supports major European languages (30). Signup for a small category. Good manual, many extra functions like language, filters.
Stats: links: 360590, categories: 31651. - Human Edited Directory
- Based on a community review system.
News
from SiteLibrary Link Collectors Community
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Step by Step
Follow this list, don't cut corners or you'll regret it.
- Sign up with JoeAnt. That's automatic. Thereby you select one section of the directory, like "Computer" or "Society".
- Put something in your profile at your anthill, read a bit in the forum, introduce yourself.
- Read the JoeAnt Guidelines.
- Read the guidelines again.
- Signup for the forum at the Link Collectors Community at SiteLibrary.net
- Put something in your profile at SiteLibrary, introduce yourself (you better want to have a little textfile for that :) )...
books about indexing
Indexing: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide for Technical Writers (Engineering Reference)
Amazon Price: $41.86 (as of 07/13/2009) 
The Art of Indexing
Amazon Price: $47.45 (as of 07/13/2009)
High-Dimensional Indexing: Transformational Approaches to High-Dimensional Range and Similarity Searches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Amazon Price: $71.97 (as of 07/13/2009)
Alphabetic Indexing Rules: Application by Computer (with CD-ROM)
Amazon Price: $69.95 (as of 07/13/2009)
Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
Amazon Price: $72.76 (as of 07/13/2009)
Indexing Books, Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Amazon Price: $32.69 (as of 07/13/2009)
by Norbert
Norbert was born in the middle of the last century in Vienna, (Austria, Europe). He got hooked on programming computers even before entering the unive...
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