Specialized web directory lists
While creating a directory just by installing a directory script and starting to collect different directories might seem a relatively simple task to accomplish, but if you want to own a really usable directory list, not only you should keep that list up-to-date (because web directories often change: many of the free directories become later paid ones, and many of them are just shut down after a certain period), but you should also collect a bit more information than a link a title and a short description, or simply give something more to help link builders and directory owners.
If you have managed to collect thousands of web directories, even a relatively simple concept would make your list usable. While the web-directories.ws directory list is built with PHP Link Directory Script without adding any considerable extra feature to the standard PHPLD feature set, the size of this collection makes it an excellent resource especially when you are looking for regional or niche directories.
Custom web sites like Info Vilesilencer Directory List — which is most likely the oldest list of its kind — can offer some handy features for sorting and handling directory lists during a certain link building campaign. This site for instance not only collects information about the Page Rank and Alexa Rank values of the directories, but also has its own ranking system in order to help to evaluate the importance of the directories listed. In addition to this, the site also lets you to download its directory list in a downloadable excel spreadsheet.
Some directory lists, like directorycritic.com accept only paid or reciprocal listing when it comes to submitting, others like the Info Vilesilencer directory list offer free submission but manually check certain requirements before listing the submitted directories.
A good directory list usually displays some additional info about the directories such as the type of the directory (Free, Reciprocal, Paid), IP address, web pages indexed by Google, age of the site, etc., but as far as I know only linksadmin.net collects automatically activity data about the listed web directories, such as the date of the last update or the date of the latest submission accepted. Sorting by this information can you prevent you from wasting your precious time for submitting your site to defunct directories.
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