Hitalyzer


December 20th, 2006

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Directory: Hitalyzer

Submission Fee: Free

About:
Hitalyzer is a general directory powered by PHP Link Directory. Simple, easy on eye design, and user-friendly navigation made browsing and adding websites an ease. The directory also feature Premier Sponsored Links and Premier Sponsored Website for the site owner that wish to pay for more exposure. Also, good feature on sorting the websites by page rank. This would enable the other site owner to easily look for better site to perform link exchange.

Pros:
A solid general directory that without doubt, going to grow bigger slowly. And, it’s free!

Cons:
Perhaps too many categories to suit my liking.

Links To My Dot Com


December 5th, 2006

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Directory:
Links-To-My-Dot-Com Links Directory

Made by:
Christopher Cole

Submission fee:
Free

About:
A general directory that is designed with excellent color and beautiful layout.

All the categories are placed in separate boxes that makes easy to read and navigate.
Users can also suggest a category if they don’t find one that is suitable to the website.

The links submitted can be ranked and commented by users. Reciprocal and paid submissions are given special placing in the directory.

Beside each category, they have mentioned the number of views it got so far plus the number of links that are placed in that particular category.

Pros:
Easy submission and good placement in the long run.

Cons:
None

Find Your Forum


November 26th, 2006

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Directory:
Find Your Forum

Made by:
Emory Rowland

Submission Fee:
Free

About:
A huge directory of forums of every category that can be found in the internet.

Find Your Forum is an Internet forum directory that allows anyone to discover, rate, and offer opinions on discussion forums, message boards and online communities.

Visitors can also add their own forum or a message board to be included in this excellent directory.

User can add comments on any forum that will be seen by others.

One or two unique forms are found here such Heavy Equipment Forum and Moving and Relocating under home category.

Pros:
Great directory of forums where each link is displayed in a colored box with users rating.

Cons:
The use of small font size can be a strain to the eyes.

Global Directory


November 20th, 2006

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Directory:
Port Prophecy Global Directory

Made by:
Derek Taylor

Submission Fee:
Free

About:
Among the directory users, this has earned a lot of respect since 2004.
Every submission is manually reviewed and only top quality sites are approved.

Every listed site can be rated (0 to 10) by anyone. Another good feature is a site can be reported for category mismatch, inappropriate content etc.

Apart from usual categories, websites can be submitted by continent wise plus all the states wise in U.S.

Pros:
Since this directory is widely used, websites can expect a good page rank and traffic.

Cons:
Free submissions can take a very long time to get reviewed.

Crafty Directory


November 7th, 2006

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Directory:
Crafty Tips & Crafty Websites

Submission fee:
Free

About:
This is a niche directory for arts and crafts like Basket Making, Beadwork & Lapidary, Bonsai, Book Making & Binding, Candles, Ceramics, Fairs & Shows, Glass (Stained & Blown) , Gourd Art and the list goes on.

With stunning looks and beautiful display, this directory can be the best advertising option for this niche.

CraftyTips.com shares some free tips about doing business on the web for crafters working on their first websites or updating their existing ones.

Pros:
The directory is less crowded now with less than 100 listings so submitters can look forward to a fair amount of traffic.

Cons:
No page rank yet.

VileSilencer


October 18th, 2006

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Directory:
Info Vilesilencer

Made by: Dan

Submission fee: Free

About: No directory owner can afford to ignore the importance of this website. If your directory is approved you can be assured of near instant and permanent traffic.

Your directory will be listed in a special ‘spotlight directory’ if you have made at least 50 posts in their forum and inserted their SEO friendly button in your web directory and must have been listed on their directory.

Pros: Since there will be a weekly update of their approved directory list, you can expect a steady flow of visitors daily.

Cons: Your directory must have a free listing category with no strings attached to remain in their list.

Directory Critic


October 10th, 2006

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Directory
: Directory Critic

Made by: Damien Mase

Submission Fee: Free

About: Respected and popular among directory owners for its massive free, paid and reciprocal web directory lists. Their tracking system allows users to keep track of the directories that they have submitted their sites to, on their lists.
A visitor can easily see how many indexed pages and backlinks a directory has, in the three major search engines by clicking the “view details” link beside each directory

Pros: Fast approval. Instant traffic. If your design is good, it will be listed under critics choice.

Cons: Only search engine friendly directories will be approved.

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Directory: Dmoz.org

Made by: Group of volunteer editors

Submission Fee: Free

About: The largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory, maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The general directory everyone wants to gets piece of listing. A lot of search engine, most namely Google, use Dmoz as its reference directory. In which, gives Dmoz an enormous advantage over other directory. It is a common seo myth that dmoz-included website normally rank higher than other websites that do not listed dmoz.

Dmoz is also the ‘most talked about’ directory in any webmaster forum, largely due to its editorial process. A website has to be submitted in the ‘most-appropriate’ category along with many submission guidelines. In addition to that, a website can take from few weeks to few years (or, never) to be included. The inefficiency is largely due to its voluntary editors.

Pros: Successful listing will give enormous boost to search engine ranking.

Cons: Strict editorial. Not every average joe knows how to submit their site correctly. And it can take few weeks to few years to be listed.