Directory of Directories of Directories

There are a lot of lists of directories compiled by different webmasters here and there, basically published in personal blogs or in webmaster forums. Although these lists are much less than a directory of directories, they are useful resources if you are looking for directories covering a certain niche. Many times these lists are a kind of by-product of a link building campaign, thus reflecting the experience of the link builder who published that list.

There are certain problems with these lists however: the worst is when someone submits to a lot of directories, and when it is done simply includes all of the directories where he just sent the link suggestions. It’s better when only those link directories get listed which accepted those link submissions. Last but not least the best of all, when a list is actively maintained, simply because the link builder in question uses that list as an everyday tool for link building campaigns.

So when you come across a simple directory list, first check the publication date. If it was published more than a year ago, then chances are high that the list will not be really useful, just because there will be many dead links and some other links where the description will not match the actual state (e.g. a link directory became a paid directory meanwhile).

A typical example of these simple directory lists can be found at http://www.evilscience.org/list-of-free-directories-from-serbia-croatia-and-bosnia/ Although this list was compiled more than a year ago most likely it is still the most comprehensive list of ex-Yugoslavian (That is: Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian) link directories.