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[jimmy-yo]

Howdy folks,

What would you say the top 20 web directories in the world are?

here's a few for starters, please add some more;
Dmoz.org
Yahoo!
Business.com
goguides.org
joeant.com
gimpsy.com
amray.com
hotrate.com
onemission.com

If you think any of the above do not deserve to be in the top 20, give me a slap and set me straight

[nimlet]

I found one called redhotchilli.co.uk for uk sites. They were free to submit to and very quick and efficient. They had us on their directory within 2 weeks and kept sending me emails to let me know the progress. Bit different to DMOZ

[qwerty]

I'm not so sure about onemission. I only recently discovered it while running a link building campaign. I signed up as an editor, submitted the site, and it was in, without anything being required of me at all.

From my perspective, that's great, but it seems to me that anyone could just throw in anything they wanted. Oddly enough, the page I added my client's site to has a toolbar PR of 4, and there are only three sites listed there, including the one I added.

I don't know how long this directory has been around, but I wonder what others think of it, and whether anyone has seen a referral from it in their logs.

[Jill]

Welcome, Jimmy-yo!

So which one of those that I never heard of are your affiliated with?

Jill

[daniel]

So which one of those that I never heard of are your affiliated with?

[jimmy-yo]

So which one of those that I never heard of are your affiliated with?

Hi Jill,

I'm not affiliated with any of them, I just feel that these are the best directories around but i would like to to top them up so there are 20.

The Top 20 Directories in the World! - the mission is simple. to find out which are the best..., does anyone have any further recommendations?

[SearchRank]

Besides what you listed, here are some others:

Looksmart (don't know if they will be around much longer after their MSN deal expires)
Zeal.com
Xoron
Skaffe.com (split off from GoGuides.org)
Qango

Also HotRate is now IllumiRate.com and GoGuides.org is for sale and currently dis-functional.

Don't know if any of these would qualify for a top 20 as there are literally hundreds and hundreds of directories of different sorts.

Edited by searchrank, 04 December 2003 - 12:23 PM.

[skiguide]

My top ones for general, all purpose directories would be:

Yahoo
ODP
Zeal.com(+LS)
Business.com
IPL.org
vlib.org
ThomasRegister.com

About, of course, if you want to call it a directory, but it's really not.

then second-tier:
GoGuides
JoeAnt
Gimpsy
Skaffe
Jayde (i think it still qualifies as a directory.

[qwerty]

A small correction: quango is a music site. The directory searchrank was referring to is qango (without the u).

[AussieWebmaster]

Okay... I don't know about Gimpsy... submitted to them a couple of months ago and got this today:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Some time ago you suggested the site http://www.dailyfx.com for inclusion
in the Gimpsy directory. Your suggestion was given the ID number XXX.

We are sorry to inform you that your suggestion was not accepted.

Gimpsy staff have made the following comment:
This particular URL appears to be informational in nature only. The
courses and bulletin board are on other URLs. Gimpsy requires each
url to have activities in order to be added to our directory.

The decision should not be taken as a negative indication in respect
to the quality or usefulness of that site. Gimpsy's inclusion
criteria are mainly related to the amount and nature of the available
online activity. For details, see the online help section at
http://www.gimpsy.co...aq/faq_main.php

The site may be suggested again after 3 Jan 2004. Please do so only
if the site has changed to meet Gimpsy's inclusion criteria. Should the
site be rejected again, it would face a much longer wait before being
eligible for another review.

Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some mail readers.
Should this occur, copy and paste the two parts to your browser address field.

[AussieWebmaster]

Business.com is another one... they charge for listings bid based like adwords... and then they get their traffic to them by buying PPCs on cheap search engines for popular non specific terms in your area/industry... these are then funnelled to the directory lists...

I have been seeing a lot more of this sort of thing lately. Search engines advertising on other search engines etc.

[skiguide]

Business.com is another one... they charge for listings bid based like adwords...

yes, Business.com does do quite a bit of PPC & distribution of those, BUT

the Business.com DIRECTORY is still $99/year for a basic listing, which includes 5 deeplinks to your pages - an incredible value, IMO, for the targeted category and PR value (if you look at that sort of thing) because Business.com listings do get spidered and indexed by the SE's.

[printerbase]

I'm not so sure about onemission. I only recently discovered it while running a link building campaign. I signed up as an editor, submitted the site, and it was in, without anything being required of me at all.

qwerty,

See what you mean about onemission, went over, signed up, added a site and bingo it is listed!

Didn't even have to validate my email address.

Wide open to major abuse I think.

Peter

[AussieWebmaster]

Business.com is another one... they charge for listings bid based like adwords...

yes, Business.com does do quite a bit of PPC & distribution of those, BUT

the Business.com DIRECTORY is still $99/year for a basic listing, which includes 5 deeplinks to your pages - an incredible value, IMO, for the targeted category and PR value (if you look at that sort of thing) because Business.com listings do get spidered and indexed by the SE's.

Very true.... I get so caught up in the whole PPC thing that I miss the organic stuff at times... it does have that value and at $99 a good deal.

[wayne h]

qwerty,

See what you mean about onemission, went over, signed up, added a site and bingo it is listed!

Didn't even have to validate my email address.

Wide open to major abuse I think.

Peter

Onemission.com seems very easy to manipulate, for good or....well....not so good.

I became an editor, in about one minute. I created a brand new sports category on the spot. Feeling rather omnipotent at that particular moment, I added three sites. One was mine. The other two were for friends of mine.

My newly hatched category has a PageRank 4, divided among the three sites. If I were truly selfish, I could have kep the entire benefit for myself. Alas, I'm doomed to be helpful, rather than wealth-full.

I can see how ease of editorship application could lead to some terrible abuse of the system. All that would be needed is an unethical freshly baked editor to remove some competitors' sites.

On the other hand, the PR4 backlink hasn't shown up yet on Google. Maybe the Big G doesn't crawl Onemission very often.

Wayne Hurlbert