This website is so focused on bringing quality to its end user which it such a rare trait in today’s world that it indexes the web directories on its homepage with actual backlinks and rankings of the web directory according to Yahoo and Google with a small summary of the directories. Their submission process is not at all labyrinthine and the sites are ranked according to their bid amount so even if you are a new webmaster trying to promote your site and services you don’t lose out to others who have been around for long.

     With webdirectorylist.com you have the power to beat all those internet marketers who know all the tricks to get their sites on the top of the search engines without any attention to the quality and not only that you can be assured of the kind of backlinks you get from this directory list to be only top quality which is indeed very essential to your PageRank. Upon submitting your site, you get a permanent link that is featured on two pages, their category page and the dedicated pages with 3 deep links allowed you can even have your web directory listed in any of the following pages:

    1. Bidding Directories
2. General Paid Directories
3. Premium Paid Directories

     Their FAQ section is very self-explanatory and you can easily navigate their interface and place your bid according to the highest bids placed and get your site to the top of their listings. A listing with webdirectorylist.com is truly an investment you must make for your site.

They offer strong permanent links with a one-time submission fee of USD$49.95 that appear in two pages, one with the main category listing and one on the dedicated page. There are no feature links and if you are the highest bidder your site will be at the top. You can view the highest bidders on their Directory Submit page located at and place your bid accordingly. If you are one of their top 10 highest bidders they place you on their homepage. You can also get up to 3 deep links or include your links in specific category pages like Travel Directory at or Business Directory.

You can also check the quality of the traffic you receive by placing a button on your site that asks your site visitor to contribute a vote in the form of a dollar or two for increasing your site ranking by strengthening your bid amount, which you are free to change at any time if you want your site to rank higher than newer inclusions. This unique directory is the perfect tool for new webmasters to make their mark in the virtual world without the need of over-spending on promotion methods that fail to give accurate results.

While most high PageRank general web directories would either classify your site by its PageRank, alphabetical order or first come first serve basis, Big Web Links is a unique search engine friendly bid directory with a high PageRank which allows links to be placed by the amount of their bids and you too can pull your website right at the top of this directory by doing some aggressive bidding on your part so you can easily enjoy the directory’s PageRank.

Their homepage displays the top 10 bidders and the top links page contains the top 20 bidders with a latest links page too which is sure to get your site noticed once you are acing the bidding game. You can view the top 10 bidders on the submit page and adjust your bids accordingly and each time you wish to win over other webmasters. Bigweblinks.com also has a detailed listings page so you can have up to 4 links in this human edited directory apart from deep links in their specific directory pages like Web Directory Links at, Computer Links at and Shopping Links at .

This may be a fairly new concept but it soon catching on virally and while you can make the most of this opportunity to place your bid and see your site right at the top of a high ranked web directory like bigweblinks.com that offers your site powerful backlinks.

The have just one external site wide link which makes Alive Web Directory extremely search engine friendly. I find the prices suited to their web status and they limit regular listings to 10 per page. While featured listings are unlimited, you can pay US$34.95 to have an entire category page with PR4 to yourself. Their submissions are far easier and you don’t have to choose categories or register yourself. For faster and focused submissions you can choose their 3 deep links which are featured resources like their Business Web Directory at , Shopping Web Directory at and Computer Web Directory at which allow for well categorized listings and sub listings. I see Alive has a potential for both, search engine friendliness and a high PR which are what make a good web directory.

The only thing that I can’t say I dislike but could be definitely worked on is the layout but then, it could be worse and at least they don’t have chunks of links decorating their header and footer space and flashing banners all over the place. They also have fewer categories clogging their directory and a spartan layout with great features is far better in my humble opinion.

Here we will have a small interview with him in which he discusses with us various aspects of the Web Directory Industry which has boomed a lot in the last few years. He shares with us his experiences in the industry and also provides some valuable tips to Directory Owners

Where did you get the idea to start a web directory ?
I have been providing seo services at our seo company to many of our clients and that was when i had seen great improvements in our rankings and i got a idea to get serious on a single web directory instead of handling many small ones. The web directory at the beginning was started as a normal phpld based directory but then slowly i started working on it in terms of serps and not backlinks.

How much time do you spend to maintain your directory roughly ?
I sped around 3-4 hours/day on an average on gii web directory to check out the latest improvements, new tweaks, adding fresh content, managing my staff to work on its content part etc and approving the latest recieved listings.

What are your future plans for GII ?
I have many plans for gii in the comming months but iam not interested right now to disclose them, but one of those is to make a web directory which offers returning traffic and means really a web directory and not just links directory which passes PR & backlinks.

What do you think it takes to make a successful web directory?
A Directory owner has to be very serious on his directory and its not always that a unique designed web directory would perform well and is worth to get listed, but a web directory should have serious efforts put into it and the results can be seen in the form of the serps.

What do you think submitters must look for besides a link, before submitting to the directory?
I would say they should look on the branding, promotions, efforts made by the respective directory owner and not just the current PR , because there are many directories which have been PR7 at a time and the next update they were PR6 which was because of lack of promotions or reinvestment. Also a important factor which the submitters must look at is the traffic the directory has, because a directory is not necessarily made for PR and backlinks but a good directory also delivers relevant and targetted traffic.

Do you think web directories are still useful and have a bright future ? Why ?
Yes, there is always a great scope for a web directory but the point is the owner should plan and innovate new unique things / features instead of just creating another quick money making web directory.

Is the Business of Web Directories still profitable? What are the pros and cons ?
This purely depends on how you plan out on your web directory , because i have seen many directory owners buying high PR backlinks and making high PR directories later on selling quick links and then completely stopping promotions of their web directories. Hence , a directory would be profitable when you plan out on how to reinvest the money in promoting your web directory instead of just planning to make quick money from it.

How much investment do you think is required to make a successful web directory ? How should the capital be spent on the directory?
A quality directory would count in unique design, unique ideas, scripts , mods, promotions etc and this would range from high xxxx$ in the beginning to low xxxxx$ in the later stage.

What you have to say about the competition among web directories ?
Currently there are many directories and each of those have something unique , hence its hard to say which one is good.I have been a fan of Alive directory for its enormous promotions , Aviva directory for its link baiting and many other popular directories, but i would suggest only one thing to them is - Dont be QBC’s

Conclusion

So we could see from the interview that Amit mainly emphasizes the fact that Web Directories must not only be seen from the SEO point of view i.e. for getting Link Juice and Page Rank or Backlinks but also must be seen as a instrument to get targetted traffic. This could come only when the directory has better SERPS or ranks high for various keywords which are infact categories of the directory so that those category pages get visits directly from the Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) which finally goes to the links listed on the particular category page. This could be achived by various methods like adding content to the web directory, getting backlinks directly pointing to the category pages from relevant sites.

The following changes are worth to be noticed.

1. Deep link mod, which was installed by anon . Now web1 offers five deep links with every featured listing (and a blog post also) and three with every regular listing.

2. Favourites mod. You can bookmark your favourite sites and look at them later. Much like social bookmarking by delicious and stumbleupon

3. Contact Listing mod. You can contact a listings owner.

4. Rate a listing. You can rate your favorite listings using a cool looking AJAX based page.

5. You can refer a listing to a friend.

The prices are still15$ for regular and 35$ for featured which is dirt cheap and i promise to keep it same in future.

regards

Aditya

Here is another rocking theme presented by Web1 Directory and Supported by Aviva Directory. It was designed by ceo2design on DP and coding work was done by coolweb from Futuristic Artists. The theme is FREE to use as long as you keep the footer links intact.

LIVE DEMO : http://www.cutewebdirectory.com

DOWNLOAD Links :

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All comments and suggestions are welcome

regards
aditya