Well the whole directory business seems to be quite overwhelming. I thought that maybe there was a few hundred out there on the internet.
I’d help my friend with his new website by picking a few good ones and leave it at that. Well forget about those few hundred directory websites how about 5000. Thats way to much information for me to analyse in one take.
So I’m quite thankful that the folks over at the Web-Directories.ws website have taken the time to look at the over 5000 sites on the internet. They have broken down all the different directories into different categories which helped me in my search for a few more good quality directories for my friends website.
The section which lists the free web directories is massive. It sorts the sites by their pagerank and it has over 1300 listings. You could spend quite a few days working your way through the site if you used proper SEO techniques. To save some time I just picked a few from ever page. Even that method used up a few hours.
The paid web directories section was even larger since it contained over 1500 entries. One nice feature is that it listed if some directories are on the same IP range since having your website listed on different IPs is better for SEO purposes according to various people.