Hello Aaron. Do you think any of these directories will accept affiliate sites? It's unfortunate that some directories (dmoz) have a blanket policy against anything affiliate related, regardless of content. Are these directories different?

Thanks.

Tom

Hi Tom
If the sites are blanket affiliate sites then most directores do not want them. Its not hard to create a small amount of original content and still have your site primarily driven by affiliate partnerships though.

Many of the smaller directories listed in the personal directories or smaller general directories categories at the Directory Archives are not extremely stringent with their listings.

Recently I listed a site which is moreless a lead generation site in all the above directories with the exception of LookSmart (because its pay per click), Zeal (because it is non commercial), and DMOZ (because they take a while and I doubt they would have listed the site and I believe it was already submitted.

My suggestion is to do most of the third tier ones and the pick and chose trying some of the larger directories.

>Is listing in a high PR directory really that important?

There are a ton of factors such as listings on the page, position of category in the directory, whether or not you can control the anchor text, etc

>What value do i get if your site is one in a thousand in a category listing - will my traffic increase?

The link popularity is split up amongst all internal and outbound links.

>Have you considered opening up this list to be a bit larger?

I make this list as a starting point...some of the best established and / or best value directories available.

Hi Aaron,
Is listing in a high PR directory really that important?What value do i get if your site is one in a thousand in a category listing - will my traffic increase? Google supposedly relies on dmoz for its listing - thats why dmoz is so important to all.But about other directories i am not so sure.

Have you considered opening up this list to be a bit larger? Or are you prefering to keep your key directory listings in the SEO Book itself? Simply curious.

Is it possible to get indexed in one day on google using Pr 6 site.

To jimmy: Hi, Jimmy, not only the sites with PR high are important to increase the value of your site. Also its important if the theme of the site is related to your site theme. Hope my english is understandable.

From seo perspective directory submissions are relevent only the top few directories.

I tried submitting to a large number (around 300) of directories without considering relevency and PageRank.

The results were not good.

I can say that there are about 60-80 top directories where one should submit a site. The rest are useless.

Hi Jason
For most webmasters with new sites trying to rank well in Google I would not recommend submitting to over 60 directories.

More realistically I would probably only submit to 5 or 10.
Cheers
Aaron

With all due respect Timon, I think there are probably more than 60-80 directories that are worth submitting to; it's all about having the right criteria to determine what the value of the directory link is. Source notwithstanding, I don't think there is any such thing as a "bad link".

Hi Aaron, I want to optimise 4 month old website. Is it possible for as new a domain to get top rankings. If yes, How

Hi Aaron,

We have paid the annual fee for Business.com and Yahoo.com in the past but skipped these last year. When I go to their directories we are still listed. Does this mean we are getting the same benefit or are we missing getting better PR or direct traffic by not paying the fees each year?

Thanks!

If the link is there the link is there. But sometimes they disappear...sometimes they catch it right away, and sometimes they don't delete it for a while.

When I click Lycos directory link,, it was redirected. Do they not have directory any more?