163 replies to this topic

[Scottie]

Welcome to the forum, parked!

[parked]

thanks

[nimlet]

I've submitted to www.redhotchilli.co.uk for UK sites BrianR and get a decent amount of traffic from them.

Last I heard they had a bit of a back log but they are polite and friendly when they contact you.

[Minerva]

Has anyone heard of a new business directory called Kellysearch.com? My husband received a couple of direct mail pieces from them introducing the service and letting him know that his company was listed in the directory. I guess they are seeding the directory with certain companies.

They are owned by Reed Business, the company that bought out Cahners Publishing, so this is no in-the-basement operation.

There's no cost to be listed. I registered with them so I could update his company description and get it listed in more appropriate categories.

-Andrea-

[OldWelshGuy]

Kellysearch has been around for ages, Reed publishing are HUGE they have more publishing resources than you can shake a stick at.

[mcanerin]

I just got an email from all.info

Anyone know anything about them? The site front page looks nice, but it's a little disorganised underneath, so I'm not sure.

Ian

[somerset]

We have had good success with a little known directory that has great rankings and lifetime submissions - divxtoday.com - branded as Super Sites. We've had quite a few direct click throughs to our site, as well as link values being passed.

[davido]

Greetings all,

You won't be able to directly submit to Looksmart directory. It is submitted through the zeal (www.zeal.com)directory instead.

Also, looksmart and dmoz does have a geographical directory. For Canadian dmoz, you should check this http://www.dmoz.com/...America/Canada/

It's the same with yahoo or looksmart.

Good luck

[Brian Turner]

I'm currently building up a list of the best free directories I've found so far. Each one also has crawlable links and thus potential SEO benefits:

http://www.seo-lab.c...directories.php

I tend to shy from paid directories, as their sense of self-importance usually seems bloated.

[Steve Sardell]

Thank you Brian,
There are a couple i had not encountered. Most decent of you to share your work.

[parked]

just think this link will be useful
www.isedb.com has quite alot of the major directories and smaller ones and niche directories also the newsletter is quite good been subscribed for 3 weeks now and get a list of the newest directories submitted

[Brian Turner]

Thank you Brian, 
There are a couple i had not encountered. Most decent of you to share your work.

LOL! No problem - I spent an entire day running through a much larger list of directories! Unfortunately, most of them either use redirected URLs (useless for SEO purposes) or were simply not indexed (at least one was even using a robots.txt to block access to all but the main page).

I will try and expand on the list as it develops.

Of course, as Brett Tabke at WebMasterWorld makes a point of, don't neglect the fact that non-SEO friendly directories can still have an impact in terms of human visitors.

[Keiran]

There have been one or two requests for info on UK directories over the past few months.

This resourse, Search Engine Colossus UK [http://www.searcheng...us.com/UK.html], has information on various UK directories (in addition to spider search engines) and is a good place to start.

Edited by Jill, 24 February 2004 - 05:52 PM.

[NewWeb]

Any directory site for me to submit my travel directory site? I'm looking for some.

[Randy]

Welcome NewWeb !

There are a bunch of travel directories listed over at ISEDB.com.

You'll find some niche specific travel directories under the Specialty Directories link on the first page. Plus many in the Major and General Directories will have Travel categories. And don't forget Local & Regional for the areas your site specializes in.