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HIGH RANKING DIRECTORIES AND INDICES
Getting it kicked off, I hope it becomes a “Sticky” – Page Rank is important. Page Rank Transfer helps. Content amplifies results. ___________ DMOZ - http://dmoz.org/ YAHOO - http://dir.yahoo.com/ GoGuides.org - http://www.goguides.org/ JoeAnt – http://www.joeant.com Zeal (non-commercial) - http://www.zeal.com/ Gimpsy – http://www.gimpsy.org HotRate (must be an editor) – http://www.hotrate.com Xoron - http://www.xoron.com/ Lycos Directory - http://www.lycos.co.uk/dir/ business.com - http://www.business.com/ Canada Proudly Canadian - http://www.porthardybc.ca/ LocalSites.ca - http://www.localsites.ca/ CanadaOne.com - http://www.canadaone.com/ StartPage.ca - http://www.startpage.ca/ UK Limey Search - http://www.limeysearch.co.uk/ dotukdirectory.co.uk - http://www.dotukdirectory.co.uk/ Splut.com - http://www.splut.com/ Australia Ausie.com - http://www.aussie.com.au/ AAA Smart Search - http://www.aaa.com.au/ The Australian Internet Directory - http://www.directory.com.au/ If you are running a Forum: http://www.forum-search.com/ http://www.forumzilla.com/ http://www.boardreader.com/ __________ Make sure and visit this Site ISEB - http://www.isedb.com/html/Web_Directories/ I would like to encourage anyone that wants to add to the list to do so. Listings with FREE submissions are particularly encouraged! All listings MUST BE PR4 OR BETTER! Ken |
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These are all freebies. They have all accepted my site. They are in no sort of order.
http://www.jayde.com/ http://www.pedsters-planet.co.uk/ http://www.url.biz/ http://www.searchsite.com/ http://www.ectrade.com/ http://www.maxpromo.com/ http://www.searchwarp.com/ http://www.subjex.net/ http://www.websearch.com.au/ http://www.asiadragons.com/ I think I have some more at home. |
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A few more; Australia, Christian and India
Australia Possum Pages - http://www.possumpages.com.au ZEAL, Australia - http://au.zeal.com ______ Christian (Over 300 links on these 3 Sites alone), many PR 4-6s, 100s more accessible): http://www.crosssearch.com/Internet_...nd_Directories Active Christian Search Engine - A massive index of Christian sites on the Web. http://www.active-ss.com http://active-ss.com/searchengines Acts Christian Web Search - http://www.actschristian.com/a Where's "Disciple"? ______ India Aryawat - http://www.aryawat.com/indiabiz/ SubmitShop.com - http://www.submitshop.com/web_promot...ory/index.html IndiaBook.com - http://www.indiabook.com/yp/ IndiaMap.com - http://www.indiamap.com/addurl.htm This thread can help everyone --- so Post Them! Ken |
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There is this site that lists many directories -> http://www.spheri.ca/directories.html
I cannot vouch for each ones PR but as others have said before a IBL is a IBL.
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Here are a few of the Austrian ones. I will only include directories that do not specifically exclude foreign language sites. You will have to do the submission in German though! I will only include the freebies.
http://www.austria-seek.at/cgi-bin/search/add_url.cgi http://funktionen.abacho.at/seite_an...basic_eintrag/ http://www.mair.net/anmeldung.htm http://bellnet.de/suchen/anmelden-ko...ndardanmeldung http://www.flix.de/cgi-bin/flix/gene...to_Neueintrag? http://www.suchknecht.at/anmelden.html These are all free and require no registration. I have checked the pages and they work, so the only excuse is the language! If anyone gets stuck, then I will give them a hand. Simon |
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African directories. These are free, but may require to see a connection with Africa for the products you offer. Ananzi is South African and refused my site as not relevant.
http://www.afriqueindex.com/Categori...-africains.htm http://es.biz-directory.org/dir/1/11.php http://www.clickafrique.com/admin/addlinks.asp http://search2.ananzi.co.za/Add_site/ http://www.skaffe.com/viewCat/1522 http://www.woyaaonline.com/ Got to get some work done inbetween! |
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I agree, it was a great idea to start this. Here are some more. I have tried them all, but not submitted anything. The links work anyway.
http://www.aardvarkbusiness.net/cgi-bin/biz/add_url.cgi General, mostly Africa http://www.fishhoo.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi fishing http://www.waheguroo.com/ Sikh directory http://www.finderseeker.com/ Directory list by category and country http://www.sfahq.com/International/ Special forces directory when I first started my site I posted to a lot of directories simply by typing search engine;country and working my way through the atlas. |
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Thanks sfowler,
You may want to remove the first 2: http://www.aardvarkbusiness.net/cgi-bin/biz/add_url.cgi http://www.fishhoo.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi they are PR0s, the others look fine! Thanks again, Ken |
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I just updated and checked my list of Directories, no I won't post 535 links to this page, though I could. They are here:
http://www.andilinks.com/sea5.htm This page also links to another expanded list with descriptions. Andi
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Hey just so everyone knows we just completed a project, PAontheweb.com (http://www.PAontheweb.com) for a client who wants to list all the websites in Pennsylvania, USA. If you have a website in PA feel free to list it as well as use it! I would appreciate any feedback on what you think of the site, after all it did and still does take ALOT of time to upkeep.
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BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
http://search-info.com – General directory http://www.bizhwy.com/ - Business Directory http://www.industrylink.com/ - Good Site to list many Industries http://www.gpnews.com - Governmental suppliers Products and services http://www.b2business.net – B2B Business http://www.kagaku.com/directory - Directory of Scientific Manufacturers - Global http://www.business-to-business-resources.com/ Business to Business Resources http://www.bcentral.com http://sbd.bcentral.com/ http://www.buzgate.org/ www.where2go.com OIL AND GAS, MINING, GEOLOGY http://www.oglinks.com – Oil and Gas Links http://www.geocheminc.com – Products and services http://www.aapg.org American Association Professional Geologists http://www.oildirectory.com - Oil Industry Directory http://www.gasandoil.com – Gas and Oil Connections http://www.geoindex.com - http://www.enex.com http://www.oildex.com Http://www.oilsurvey.com http://www.pipedir.com http://www.oil.net http://www.offshore-environment.com http://www.industrylink.com/index.htm CHEMICAL http://www.smenet.org/links/index.cfm - mining, metalurgy, exploration http://www.chemnet.com http://www.flowmeterdirectory.com www.chemicalequipment.com FOOD AND FILTRATION http://www.foodmanufacturing.com http://www.filtsep.com |
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This site allows you to search good directories and it tells you how much it costs to place ads in them
http://www.isedb.com/html/Web_Directories/ |
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http://www.ake-nutrition.at/index.php
Austrian, nutrition http://www.medlink.at/neuerlink.html Austrian, general medical http://locual.com/ Spanish, general http://www.neurologienetz.de/ Neurology, German http://beetoo.de/add.php?catid=282 German, general http://www.wuup.de/cgi-bin/search/search.pl German language, but foolproof. Only allows 5 URLs within 5 minutes, so go for a smoke! Most of the German medical directories use ODP it seems. If you have a German language site it is not very difficult to get an ODP listing. My ex-wife works for a medical publisher, so I will ask her tomorrow. How about somebody starts researching the Spanish directories, all those South American countries.... I will have a go at the French ones. Simon |
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Here are some for those of you in advertising agencies -
http://www.1234-find-web-designers.o...g-choices.html http://www.marketingtool.com/ http://www.agencycompile.com http://www.americanadagencies.com/ http://www.volta.net/Detailed/3284.html http://www.volta.net/Marketing_and_A...ies/index.html http://www.bizjournalsdirectory.com/...ng&RegionCode= http://www.business.com/search/rslt_...ry=Ad+Agencies http://www.salesvantage.com/Ad_Agenc...agencies.shtml (VERY expensive) http://www.creativepro.com/directory....html?browse=H http://paintedcows.com http://www.siu.edu/~aaf/agency.html |
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There are also places that are pseudo-Directory like that are good to get listed in. In the Health sector, these come to mind:
http://www.alternativehealthtalk.com/ http://www.naturalhealthweb.com/ http://www.selfgrowth.com/ http://www.selfimprovementnewsletters.com/ |
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I don't know if this counts, but it is also important to get listed in the "phonebook" directories like http://www.superpages.com/
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Would Local, Regional directories be of any use?
This one seems to rank well and there may be local or regional directories more useful to service businesses than global directories would be. For example? http://www.siliconbay.org/networking_directory/ It’s probably material for another thread, but I thought I would ask. |
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Here's the ones I found while doing my first links campaign a few weeks ago, they're all free as far as I know, most are UK specific.
UK shopping Directories ----------------------- www.4ukshopping.co.uk/ www.uk-shop-directory.co.uk/ www.ukshops.co.uk/ lifestyle.co.uk shopsafe.co.uk www.uk-online-shops.co.uk www.shops1st.com www.1storeplus.co.uk www.ukshopsearch.com www.ukshopsboom.co.uk www.intanetbiz.com/ www.shoppingonline.uk.com/ www.airwish.com/ www.uk-internet-shops.co.uk/ www.web-shopper.net/ www.4ukshops.com/ www.uk-shop-index.co.uk/ www.shop-browsing.co.uk/ http://www.surftheisles.com uk-shopping-guide.com shop-uk-online.co.uk get-shopping.com/ 1stchoice-onlineshopping.co.uk askshop.co.uk thevirtualmall.co.uk uk-shopping.me.uk frontofshop.co.uk buy-online-uk.co.uk gb-shopping.co.uk buybypost.co.uk http://www.shoptour.co.uk/submit-all.html UK Website Directories ---------------------- http://www.uk.go4.it/links.asp www.click2uk.com/ uklinks.org ukfind.co.uk www.yell.co.uk directory.velnetsearch.co.uk www.patient.co.uk/topics.asp splut.com limesearch.co.uk searchuno.co.uk inneedof.co.uk great-british-pages.co.uk manchester.great-british-pages.co.uk |
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try http://www.hedir.com , its also free listing but they review it.
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Nobody mentioned http://www.directoryarchives.com
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturer type Directories
(some free, some not) http://www.bulk-online.com http://www.globalspec.com http://www.industrialquicksearch.com http://www.1stindustrialdirectory.com (A Thomas Register affiliate) http://www.thomasregister.com hhtp://www.thomasglobalregister.com http://www.powderandbulk.com http://www.kellysearch.com http://www.engnetglobal.com http://www.grainnet.com also http://www.directindustry.com http://www.easy2source.com http://www.infomine.com http://www.tradeget.com/ |
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list of 81 various French directories:
http://www.lesannuaires.com/annuaire...-de-sites.html |
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http://www.automatedbuildings.com/resources/links.htm
This one is building automation. Anything to do wit hcontrol or internet will be accepted. They also take articles for publication. |
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Cripes, there's a few here huh ! Good effort. Here's some music specialist ones
www.floorelevators.com/dancedjlinks http://www.musicmoz.org/ http://www.sonicswitchblade.com/ http://simplythebest.net/music/ http://www.musiclinkexchange.com/ http://www.hiphop-directory.com/ http://www.hiphopdirectory.com/index-main3.html http://www.djzx.com/ http://www.beatzbase.com/index.html http://www.barcoded.net/ http://gighit.com/artists.php http://links.prosoundweb.com/ |
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I always thought this was a great list:
http://www.foundfirst.com/show.php Some good rankings, some weak. Some pay, some free. Hope this helps. |
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Hi Greeneagle and Zooey,
First off Zooey you have a great site and a great idea, I wish you well with it. I also have an equestrian site. We operate riding holidays in Spain, and I will add a link to your site from my links page. Greeneagle you said; Quote:
As for inbound links, quantity is not always that important, however quality is. My homepage has a PR5 with 35 inbound links (PR4 and above), however 20 of these inbound links are from internal pages of my site which all have PR4, leaving 15 external inbound links. The homepage of my site does have 224 sites that contain the url of my homepage, i.e. inbound links of PR3 or less, so maybe low PR sites do make a difference. I do have a number of unreciprocated outbound links that I have added to the links page of my site. I have chosen these sites as they provide more information for prospective clients that may be thinking of buying my product. Maybe these outbound links add a little something to the PR of my site, who knows! My site is returned reasonably well on searches with google, yahoo, etc. but could be better. It is no.6 on 'horse riding vacations', etc. However improvement is needed and this thread is an invaluable resource. I will be spending a lot of time looking through these links that have been listed here and adding my site to those that I feel will be good for my site. Here are a few sites that have invited me to join their links pages. Some are directories, some are just expanded links pages. http://spain.carhireexpress.co.uk/ http://www.spain-car-hire-rental.com/ http://www.fincaforum.com/ http://www.spaindreams.com/ http://www.wildthings.com/ http://www.adrenalinepages.com/ http://www.infohub.com/ http://www.travelunravel.co.uk/ http://www.spotjockey.co.uk/ http://www.theholidaydirectory.co.uk/ http://www.zyra.org.uk/ http://www.123greetings.com/ http://www.holiday-weather.com/ Thanks for a great thread. Regards Steve
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Here are some more, actually I have found over 1000 decent sites with links directories (multiple categories), but we offer manual link building as a service so I'm reluctant to share the rest I'm afraid. $1 a link, you can email me if you'd like to know more.
Some may have already been mentioned or are powered by the bigger directories. Hope it helps! http://www.4free.co.uk/links/pages/ http://www.abacho.co.uk http://www.aesop.com/ http://www.all-hotels-in-monaco.com/...directory.html http://www.allwebdirectories.com http://www.ask-sherlock.co.uk/ http://www.bizlink.org/ http://www.bizweb.com/ http://www.britindex.co.uk/ http://www.christianwebcrawler.com/ http://www.cultureconnect.com/ http://www.fifepages.co.uk http://www.globalgateway.com http://www.gogolook.com http://www.hooverdog.com/ http://www.idnetuk.com/ http://www.infoprobe.net/ http://www.infouk.org/ http://www.jayde.com/ http://www.lincolnshirenow.com http://www.londinium.com http://www.london.internationalcircuit.com/ http://www.milktwosugars.co.uk http://www.moshix2.net/ http://www.noago.com/ http://www.pmonkey.com/ http://www.primefind.com/ http://www.redhotchilli.co.uk/ http://www.robolink.co.uk http://www.scotsmart.com http://www.selu.co.uk http://www.siterary.com http://www.splut.com http://www.spotjockey.co.uk http://www.stopdog.com/ http://www.subjex.net/ http://www.surfgopher.com/ http://www.swscotland.clara.net/ http://www.theeverywherepages.com/ http://www.thelocalweb.net http://www.top100travelsites.com http://www.toplocallistings.co.uk/ http://www.UKbest50.co.uk http://www.uk-click.co.uk http://www.uklinks.org http://www.usefulinfo.co.uk http://www.walhello.com/ http://www.websurfuk.co.uk http://www.worldcitypages.net/
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To SFowler and any others interested
here is a link that will give you page rank just by typing in the url of the site. http://www.top25web.com/pagerank.php Saves having to put the toolbar on your own browser. Regards Greg Thanks girls and guys great effort !![/b]
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What you do have to be careful about when you use these particular sites or any of them rather, is to use a throw-away email address. At least do not give them your main business email addresses ... you will most assuredly get Spammed from hell to high-water if you use it. It is not the Free submit site that is doing it though. Their privacy policy is pretty much on the up and up. It is that the places that they are auto-submitting your listing to often require the email address and then the ballgame is over. Some of these places use one of their throw-away email addresses for you, which you will notice if you watch the screens. But not all places will accept that address any more and yours will get substituted in it's place. I have found that it is really not worth it. Usually if it is too easy to do, then there is not much of worth there to begin with. No pain, no gain as they say. |
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You might want to add http://www.skaffe.com/, http://www.mavicanet.ru/ (or http://wwww.mavicanet.com/ ) and http://www.illumirate.com/ to the list.
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PR = Page Rank. see Google for a full explanation.
Often given much greater emphasis than it deserves. Recently I was dropped back from an PR6 to a PR5 but it had no effect on my position in the SERPS for my major keywords - still in the the top 2 or 3 also sales not affected in any way.
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http://www.developers4hire.com - Directory of web development, SEO and web hosting companies located worldwide.
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First of all, thanks you all. You all have resolved my dilemma. After furious submission and revisions of my website / SEO, I have yet to be able to receive a Page Rank at all. Links have been exchanged and confirmed and I have great keyword density. After months I still see myself with a rank of “0”. Yesterday I submitted to DMOZ.org since it is the mother search of Googles search engine reference. Now, all these Directories that you all listed are ….Intense. Thanks.
Just to let all of you know in regards of the submission to these directories. The more links that are present and the deeper these links are in the Directory service, the less PR points you will receive. I found this alogrithim that really makes sense. Hope it helps. PR(AKA) = (1-A) + A(B/C) PR(AKA) = (1-.85) +.85*(8/16) PR(AKA) = .15 + .85(.5) PR(AKA) = .15 + .425 PR(AKA) = .575 A = “.85” (Relevance PR points a links will get on your site) B = the sites page rank (in this case 8) C = links on that page (in this case 16) Lets say I was linked from a site with a PR of 8, a total of 16 outbound links, the PR boost would be .575 Hope this is accurate and makes sense Intense Tampa website design services :: Tampa E-commerce & SEO design services |
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The equation at that time was: Code:
PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn)) |
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Ken,
Thanks so much for this wonderful topic. I know that it will help my one-man-at-a-keyboard website. You folks are a wonderful resource. From all that I've learned from your forums, I've finally gotten my site to the top ten of Google and Yahoo (and # 1 on Teoma!), and it seem to be staying up there for a change! ( Do you think there's someone at Google who's going to go and make a big change in their algorithms because I wrote that?) Thanks all, - Paul
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Not big boys, but submissions are appreciated:
http://www.sheeze.net http://www.templates-themes-graphics.com http://www.lilhangout.net/links Hugs* |
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OK – HERE WE GO
Web Design Directories – One for the money and two to go!: http://www.1234-find-web-designers.org/ e-Commerce and web design directory PR6 – requires reciprocal link for free listing http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/get-listed.php Free listings PR6 UK http://www.designdir.net/submit.php - Free listing PR6 “Web Design Directory” http://www.webdesignpros.net/busines...ry.htm#listing Web Design Pro’s PR4 http://directory.google.com/Top/Comp...ent/Authoring/ - Certainly you have this PR7 already! http://www.rednova.com/signup/signup.php Rednova “Golden Web Awards” PR6 http://www.grantasticdesigns.com/webdesignlinks.html - PR5 - Must use e-mail contact at bottom of page http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Design_Art...Accessibility/ A PR6 – Been Here Yet? http://www.freegb.net/ PR6 http://www.einternetdirectory.co.uk/...e-and-Wear.php PR6 - Requires Reciprocal http://www.1-sun-web-site-promotion....k-exchange.php - Exchange Required http://www.mcgwebdevelopment.com/link_exchange.html Another PR5 http://www.webmasteryellowpages.com/addsite.htm - Another PR5 http://www.bluegeckonetwork.com/ecommerce/ - Another PR6 There must be thousands – Come now – I am not going to do all the work – Submit your Categories! Where's your's? PR4 and above Let's try and provide "Free" only for now! Get off your nest and give it up! Ken |
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Does anyone have some good travel related directories. I noticed a few in amongst those submitted but need some more for North America.
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Okay, I've sorted out the general directories. You'll find them on http://madur.somalitalk.com/custom2.html
It's a free site, so if everybody tries at once it may run out of bandwidth! I'll have a go at the others later. If anyone has comments to them then post them here and I will add them. Simon |
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These are all industry specific or sector orientated directories. If there were comments in the post, then I have included them.
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If anyone interested, I can provide you with links to Polish directories.
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