List of Free and Paid directories

Yesterday we talked about some of the basics of link building in the form of using directories. Today, as promised, are some of the better locales for making submissions and the approved Gypsy list ;0)

While there are thousands of directories out there, I decided to list the more important (powerful) ones that you can look at; we’ll start with the paid…. I will list some of the ‘FREE’ ones following this list. The reason we look at paid directories is that search engines tend to value them more (as they do with human edited). It is always advisable to have some of these in a balanced link profile.

Top Paid Directories

http://Dir.Yahoo.com ($299 per year)
http://Ezilon.com/ (free / $69)
http://DirJournal.com/ ($59.95 / $99.95)
http://JoeAnt.com/ ($39.99)
http://Directory.v7n.com ($49.95)

Second tier paid directories

http://Elib.org/ (60 Euro -150 Euro)
http://Gimpsy.com/ ($40)
http://Romow.com/ ($45 / $90)
http://Botw.org/ ($80 /yr or $240)
http://HomeSalez.com/Directory/ ($50 /yr)
http://Iwebtool.com/directory/ ($10 /yr)
http://AvivaDirectory.com/ ($50 - $75 /yr)
http://BlazeMp.com/dir/ (bid min $50)
http://Skaffe.com/ ($50)
http://CityStar.com/ ($30)
http://Dmegs.com/ (free - $10 /yr)
http://Enquira.com/ ($30)
http://Kahuki.com/ ($20- $49.95 /yr)
http://MaxLinks.org/ ($13 / $50)
http://ProlinkDirectory.com/ (free - $9 for 3 months)
http://LoboLinks.com/ $23 / $37 /yr)

Other paid directories

http://MyGreenCorner.com/ (free - $25 /yr)
http://Rakcha.com ($30)
http://WebWorldIndex.com/ ($25)
http://Zorg-Directory.com/ ($15 - $60)
http://AuthorityDirectory.com ($5 - $20 /yr)
http://Global-WebLinks.com/ (free - $40 /yr)
http://Idk.in/ ($15 - $50 /yr)
http://Index-It.net/ ($25)
http://AllInfoDir.com/ ($27 - $70)
http://AnthonyParsons.com/ ($10 - $30)
http://Emillie.net/ ($25 - $40 /yr)
http://Cascandra.com/ ($12 - $30 /yr)
http://OnlineWide.com/ ($35 / $70 /yr)
http://Ventedoy.com/ (bid; min $5)
http://Abilogic.com/ ($10 / $40 /yr)
http://Browse8.com/ ($35)
http://MassiveLinks.com/ ($25 / $60)

Vertical paid directories

http://123kidzarea.com/ (n/a) – Kids
http://FamilyFriendlySites.com/ ($9.95 / $49.95 per year) - family
http://Business.com/ ($300 /yr) – Biz
http://UkSmallBusinessDirectory.co.uk/ (50 -100 pounds) – UK Biz
http://BusinessSeek.biz/ ($10 / $20 /yr) - Biz
http://Ebusiness-Directory.com/ (unknown) - Biz

Free Directories

Ok, since these are the freebies…. I have listed them by PageRank as of the time of writing. Not that PR is the greatest judge of value, but it is a metric worth being a starting point for the moment. Here are some to get you started;

http://dmoz.org - PR9

http://www.lii.org/ - PR7

http://2rss.com - PR6
http://Bizweb.com - PR6
http://Greenstalk.com - PR6
http://www.ezilon.com/ - PR6
http://www.buzzle.com/ - PR6
http://www.accoona.com/ - PR6
http://www.surfsafely.com/ - PR6

http://BestCatalog.net - PR5
http://aigam.com - PR5
http://Chiff.com - PR5
http://IllumiRate.com - PR5
http://Re-Quest.net - PR5
http://Clickey.com - PR5
http://turnpike.net/directory.html - PR5
http://Re-quest.net - PR5
http://prolinkdirectory.com - PR5
http://cgbee.com - PR5
http://www.turnpike.net/directory.html - PR5
http://www.info-listings.com/ - PR5
http://www.geniusfind.com/ - PR5
http://www.information.com/ - PR5
http://www.information.com/ - PR5
http://www.spheri.com/d/ - PR5
http://searchsight.com/ - PR5

http://www.searchwiz.com/ - PR4
http://www.skoobe.biz/ - PR4
http://MavicaNet.com - PR4
http://Earthstation9.com - PR4
http://ExactSeek.com - PR4
http://Jayde.com - PR4
http://Gimpsy.com - PR4
http://Haaba.com - PR4
http://Web-Beacon.com - PR4
http://Emfind.com - PR4
http://Websavvy.cc - PR4
http://cantufind.com - PR4
http://Webs-Best-Directory.com - PR4
http://charolabap.com - PR4
http://www.netinsert.com/ - PR4

http://WebWorldIndex.com - PR3
http://Americasbest.com - PR3
http://SoMuch.com - PR3
http://iMarvel.com - PR3
http://CyberWebSearch.com - PR3
http://Yeandi.com - PR3
http://SmartLinks.org - PR3
http://www.mygreencorner.com/ -PR3
http://www.businessseek.biz/ - PR3
http://www.abilogic.com/ - PR3

Still want more directories? Then try these…

http://info.vilesilencer.com/main.php?rock=seo-friendly-a.php http://www.onewaytextlink.com/links.php?type=free
http://www.directorycritic.com

Verticals

It is always a good idea to search out specific vertical directories for your given niche/market. I will add some as I come across them, but you really should search out some yourself as part of the directory submission plan with your programs. I have listed a few with links to more lists;0)

Kids
http://kids.yahoo.com/submissions/suggest_site - PR7

Canada
http://SuperPages.ca - PR6
http://Canadopedia.com - PR6
http://ProudlyCanadian.net - PR5
http://www.canlinks.net/ - PR5

Health
http://Patient.co.uk - PR6
http://PsychNet-UK.com - PR6
Productshttp://BooksMusicVideo.com - PR6
http://www.epooch.com/ - PR3

And here are some industry specific niche directories lists ;

http://info.vilesilencer.com/main.php?rock=niche.php
http://www.directorycritic.com/niche-directories.html

Blog Directories

If you have a blog on your site, then submitting to various directories is also a great idea. Here is a fairly comprehensive list to get you going;

http://www.2rss.com/index.php
http://www.addyourblog.com/submit.php
http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/
http://www.blogbunch.com/suggest/
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html
http://www.blog-collector.comhttp://www.blog-directory.org/
http://www.bloggernow.com
http://www.blogexplosion.com/directory/
http://www.blogflux.com/add.php
http://www.bloggapedia.com/
http://www.bloglines.com
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://www.blog-search.com/blog-submission.html
http://www.blogscholar.com/
http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
http://www.contentsmatter.com/add.php
http://www.diarist.net/

http://www.feedage.com/submit.php
http://www.feedboy.com/addfeed.html?catid=
http://www.feedsfarm.com/a.html
http://www.gobignetwork.com/entrepreneur-blogs/
http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog
http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/Folksonomy.aspx
http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
http://www.pressradar.com/suggest
http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
http://www.search4rss.com
http://smallbusiness.com/wiki/Weblog_directory_company_blogs
http://strategicboard.com/?s=h:addblog
http://www.tailrank.com/import
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
http://www.today.com/submit-blog
http://www.wingee.com/
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/my/cgi_rss_submission

Paid Blog Directories

http://Bloggeries.com
http://BlogAnnounce.info
http://Blogtagstic.com http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php
http://www.avivadirectory.com/submit.php
http://www.blogbib.com/submit.php
http://blogs.botw.org/helpcenter/submitblog.aspx
http://www.romow.com/submit.php
http://www.iblogbusiness.com/add.html
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
http://www.postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php
http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/directory/add.html
http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/wilsdomain9b.php?op=newsubmit

And there you have it… plenty to keep you busy for quite a while; be sure to have a structured approach to you submission strategy and read yesterday’s post; Using directories of link building - Next week we’ll be looking at more foundational link building with Article Marketing tactics and resources.

Until next time… play safe!!

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Yahoo’s Desperation

The bomb dropped late wednesday night – Yahoo, in an attempt to show that there are other suitors besides Microsoft, announced that they were running a joint advertising experiment with Google.

In a nutshell, Google will be serving up 3% of the paid ads on the Yahoo search engine (in the United States only) for the next two weeks. Assuming the joint venture is successful, (which presumably means that the Google ads perform better than the Yahoo ads) Yahoo would join operations with the sliding AOL, which already uses Google technology for paid advertising (further complicating the picture, Google owns a 5% stake in AOL). Time Warner would take a 20% interest in the venture, paying in cash. Then, Yahoo would use that money to buy back its own shares in the $35 to $40 range to raise the stock price, a significant premium over the existing Microsoft offer which hovers just below $30 per share.

Sound convoluted? You bet. It’s almost as if Yahoo is trying to throw out as many big names as possible (Google, Time Warner, AOL) in order to send a message to shareholders (and Microsoft) that plenty of other studs want to take them to the prom.

There’s only one problem – it won’t happen. At least not in the way it is currently being presented.

If Google and Yahoo were to combine advertising platforms, which is the logical conclusion when Yahoo is measuring Google’s ad serving technology against their own, the advertising alliance would control over 80% of online advertising in the U.S. Analysts are already proclaiming that this would not pass regulatory scrutiny, which would leave Yahoo right back where it started. Microsoft has already pointed this out, but they are still seen as the evil interloper in all of this, so apparently they don’t count.

I can’t tell you what’s going to happen – but I can tell you that beneath all of Yahoo’s name-dropping and exciting potential alliances I detect the underlying stench of desperation.

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