A Quick Analysis of the Strongest Web Directories Available
Yahoo! provides one of the best web directories available to the general public today. When you’re listed on Yahoo! you're practically guaranteed to be indexed by all of the major search engines. The only problem and downside to listing with the Y! directory is that it costs $299.00 per listing. This is a downside for the individual that’s promoting a few web pages on his own, because independent online marketers aren’t likely to be able to afford such a cost upfront.
So if you’re looking for a strong web directory that is free but still packs as much punch as many of the top-tier premium directories, try dmoz. It’s an “open directory,” which means that it’s free. It’s also lent a lot of credence by AOL, with which it is a partner (through AOL’s AOL Search service/product).
The dmoz directory acts just like many other directories. All of the major categories are there, listed, as you’d expect to find them: Arts, Business, Computers, Games, Health, and so forth.
Dmoz is often ranked higher by many that study link-quality and page-reference quality because of the directory’s mass and volume (of pages and links). Since it’s essentially free to list with the directory, you get a lot in return. That isn’t to say that you shouldn’t entertain other premium directories, however.
One such directory is Business.com. It’s major feature and selling point is its Grid. The Grid presents the data of its directory in a variety of ways. Users are allowed to filter by a myriad and plethora of criteria, and the purchase of the directory as whole is to link businesses with business-purchasers; i.e. it’s a B2B directory.
It’s tagline is “Buy Smarter,” and indeed, the directory enables its users to engage its database via a sophisticated range in/of options/features, such as:
Ezilion is another premium directory. The directory isn’t as expansive as the others we’ve mentioned here, but the site ranks well, and is a must-have resource for marketers that are looking to round out their web asset’s online footprint of links, social media mentions, etc. Ezilion is a bit different in that it’s top page directs users to country-specific sub-pages that in turn house the general categories that you’ve come to expect from any directory—again, Arts, Business, etc.
Ezilion is a bit of a compromise between open directories and premium directories. It’s free, but it’s $69 price point per listing and entry isn’t unaffordable either. But again, though it ranks well overall in terms of Alexa, Page Rank, etc., its directory isn’t as expansive or in-depth as the others we’ve mentioned previously. Its section on online auto stores is perhaps a good example of this. As of today, Ezilion lists less than a hundred, compared to Yahoo!’s section of hundreds.
For more current analysis of the various web directories available to submit to today, see this comparison, “The Strongest Web Directories.”
So if you’re looking for a strong web directory that is free but still packs as much punch as many of the top-tier premium directories, try dmoz. It’s an “open directory,” which means that it’s free. It’s also lent a lot of credence by AOL, with which it is a partner (through AOL’s AOL Search service/product).
The dmoz directory acts just like many other directories. All of the major categories are there, listed, as you’d expect to find them: Arts, Business, Computers, Games, Health, and so forth.
Dmoz is often ranked higher by many that study link-quality and page-reference quality because of the directory’s mass and volume (of pages and links). Since it’s essentially free to list with the directory, you get a lot in return. That isn’t to say that you shouldn’t entertain other premium directories, however.
One such directory is Business.com. It’s major feature and selling point is its Grid. The Grid presents the data of its directory in a variety of ways. Users are allowed to filter by a myriad and plethora of criteria, and the purchase of the directory as whole is to link businesses with business-purchasers; i.e. it’s a B2B directory.
It’s tagline is “Buy Smarter,” and indeed, the directory enables its users to engage its database via a sophisticated range in/of options/features, such as:
- A sophisticated price comparison tool that pits a variety of types of services, products, and resources against each other by price point
- A library of over 50,000 how-to documents on how to run/manage any kind of business
- Business research case studies and product white papers
Ezilion is another premium directory. The directory isn’t as expansive as the others we’ve mentioned here, but the site ranks well, and is a must-have resource for marketers that are looking to round out their web asset’s online footprint of links, social media mentions, etc. Ezilion is a bit different in that it’s top page directs users to country-specific sub-pages that in turn house the general categories that you’ve come to expect from any directory—again, Arts, Business, etc.
Ezilion is a bit of a compromise between open directories and premium directories. It’s free, but it’s $69 price point per listing and entry isn’t unaffordable either. But again, though it ranks well overall in terms of Alexa, Page Rank, etc., its directory isn’t as expansive or in-depth as the others we’ve mentioned previously. Its section on online auto stores is perhaps a good example of this. As of today, Ezilion lists less than a hundred, compared to Yahoo!’s section of hundreds.
For more current analysis of the various web directories available to submit to today, see this comparison, “The Strongest Web Directories.”