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Top 25 Most Powerful Web Directories List

Paul Teitelman | November 4th, 2008
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Traduction francaise: Liste des 25 Répertoires les Plus Puissants sur la Toile

So after getting a fair amount of feedback on my last series I decided it was finally time to offer a "Top 25 Most Powerful Web Directories" list. Now this comprehensive web directories list isn't set in stone, and will probably need to be updated on 3-month intervals, but it does cover a good majority of the top paid directories you should initially target to submit your site(s) too.

Now I don't usually offer such specific details on link building resources; personally I prefer to provide general tips and then let the viewer read between the lines and extract my key points, but in this case I just felt that I should provide a quick and powerful directory list to follow up my three part series on directory submissions. Only seems fitting. And with the potential power of directories for SEO currently in hot debate, I thought that it was the right time to unleash this list. (For the record; yes they are still powerful!)

White hat Seo

Now, there are a lot of great directories that aren't on this list because they are either too expensive for my blood (BOTW, Yahoo! Directory) or it just takes way too long to get approved (DMOZ, Illumirate) when you're looking for a quick boost for your site(s). So without much further ado, here is a list of the top 25 most powerful directories:

1.) Family Friendly Sites
2.) Incrawler
3.) Kahuki
4.) Greenstalk
5.) Rakcha
6.) Joeant
7.) Splash Directory
8.) Goguides
9.) Enquira
10.) ALS Links
11.) Clush
12.) Octopedia
13.) Info Listings
14.) Skaffe
15.) Global Weblinks
16.) Links 2 Go
17.) Dmoz Zilla
18.) Gimpsy
19.) Global Link Networks
20.) Business Directory
21.) Zorg Directory
22.) TWD
23.) Data Spear
24.) World Site Index
25.) Most Popular Sites

If you feel there is any directory which I overlooked (or have any questions about the list or any of the specific directories for that matter) please feel free to write a comment about it and I will do my best to respond to you and answer your inquiries! Happy searching!

Traduction francaise: Liste des 25 Répertoires les Plus Puissants sur la Toile

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About the Author: Paul Teitelman

I'm a SEO Manager here at SEP and am responsible for overseeing the organic ranking of clients for their major keywords. When I'm not in front of computers my main passions are drumming, hockey and hanging out up north at my cottage in Muskoka.

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  1. Jack Clarke says:
    November 11, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Great list, thanks. I’d like to see a list of top 25 article submission sites that have good PR, dofollow and free. Thanks again.

  2. Vol Cars says:
    November 11, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    Thanks for the list. They are of really of extremely high quality. I have checked out most of the sites and got links almost of $350. I hope these are beneficial for me. Thanks again…

  3. Michael says:
    November 12, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    Thanks for the list. We use most of the directories listed and they are top quality. Someone else mentioned Aviva, LoboLinks, AuthorityDirectory and DirJournal – top directories as well!

    Here are a few more that we used and they are excellent:

    http://www.AllyDirectory.com
    http://www.Zyas.com
    http://www.2yi.net
    http://www.Romow.com

    Hope this helps 🙂

  4. Skin Care says:
    November 14, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    Thanks for mentioning the top 25 directories for submission. It is really helpful for me. I added this list to my list of directories. And one thing if u has published than it is very good and helpful for me. You really did a great job as a lot of time required to compile the most powerful list of directories. Great work and thank you for it.

  5. John says:
    November 16, 2008 at 5:27 am

    I would like to add some to ur already impressive list —

    http://ckax.com

    http://www.dbestdir.com

    http://www.xwebdirectory.com

    http://www.onlinewide.com

    http://www.webgem.us

    http://www.odp.in

    Cheers 😛

  6. Steve says:
    November 16, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    This is another great directory for conscious businesses.

    http://www.bizlightenment.com

  7. Best Tableware says:
    November 19, 2008 at 11:35 am

    Useful if you’re looking for paid listings. Do you have any experience with any of them other than just listing them? It would be nice to have an idea of the general price/performance value of each of them.

  8. fun info says:
    November 24, 2008 at 2:33 am

    Agree. Yahoo is so expensive and Dmoz is hard to get approved. Thanks for powerful directories list.

  9. Brett Muscio says:
    November 27, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Hi Paul,

    This list has been quite useful, especially when you seek out ones which haven’t been overcrowded yet.

    The ones on this list that I found to be the most beneficial so far have been clush, incrawler, joeant and splashdirectory.

    Do some of these directories only allow PR to some categories on their site?

    Brett

  10. jc says:
    November 27, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    All but two of these are pay-only directories. Kinda bogus.

  11. Busby SEO Test says:
    November 30, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    Great list, and if you include these directory list with PR it makes Superb List 😀

  12. seo says:
    December 4, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    thanks for this great list. do you have something like that especially for germany too? or doesnt it matter from where you get the backlinks even if you wanne rank high just in germany?

  13. Lou says:
    December 16, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    Great list! Check out Stumpedia.com also.

  14. valuablelinks says:
    December 17, 2008 at 12:33 am

    I tried some of them, what a pity, they were not free.

  15. Todd says:
    December 17, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    FYI — Global Weblinks looks like they nofollow the listings.

  16. Claus says:
    December 18, 2008 at 4:38 am

    @ Todd: Only the outgoing links from the category pages are nofollow – links from detailpages are Dofollow – The directory is custom built and tweaked over the years. – read more about the thoughts here: http://www.clausheinrich.com/usage-of-relnofollow-on-directories-its-not-all-bad/

  17. Fredg61 says:
    December 25, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Nice list. I also use these directories:

    http://www.directorycomet.com
    http://www.whowantslinks.com
    http://www.top-ten-web-hosting-forum.com
    http://www.mavicanet.com

    Cheers!

  18. Jonathan Meager says:
    January 7, 2009 at 11:44 am

    A good list, but there’s quite a lot of pay sites on there

  19. Mohammed says:
    January 18, 2009 at 2:45 am

    for someone like me, paying directories is not an option. I guess these would be mostly businesses trying to get in these directories.

  20. Blog SEO says:
    January 19, 2009 at 4:44 am

    I personally believe that directories are undervalued these days. Of course, they do not help as much as they used to. But if you can find a way to get cheap (or free) posts, then do so. Great list! Thanks

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