Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Website Design
Online Directory Listing
DIRECTORY | COST | COMMENTS |
DMOZ | Free | Could take up to a year or more for your site to be listed. |
Yahoo Directory | $299/year for commercial sites, free otherwise | Your site will also be listed in several international Yahoo directories. |
Microsoft bCentral | $49/year | Cheaper bulk-submit pricing options also available. |
Best Of The Web | Free for non-commercial sites. $39.95/year or $99.95 one-time. | As name indicates, was once an award site. |
GoGuides | $69.95 per URL. If you want to add multiple sites, charges between $19.95 and $49.95 per month to be an editor. | Sites are instantly included. High prices makes it best suited for SEOs who might like to add a lot of their client's sites. |
Joeant.com | $39.99 one-time fee, free for editors | Takes about a week to be listed either way. |
Gimpsy | $40 to be reviewed within 72 hours, $20 refund if site is turned down. Free submit available, but can take months to be listed. | Focused primarily on commercial sites. Can be difficult to find the proper category to submit to. |
Uncover The Net | Paid submission costs between a $39 one time fee and $348 per year, depending on features. | No free submission feature. |
Site-Sift | $34.95 one-time fee, Sponsored Listing $100.00 per year | Not very well known, but lots of high PageRank internal pages. |
Business.com | $199/year, renewable for $149 | Popular directory with lots of traffic. |
01 Web Directory | Free. $49 one-time fee for Priority Express 3-day Submission | Full refund if site not accepted. |
Linkopedia | $9.95 one-time fee. | Sites are guaranteed to be reviewed within 24 hours. |
Site Snoop | $10 one-time fee. | |
Massive Links | $9.99 one-time fee for basic listing, $19.99 one-time for 5-link listing, $49.99/year for premium listings. | Permits you to write your own keyword-rich link anchor text. Free for non-profits. |
Tygo | $39.99 one-time fee. | Permits you to write your own keyword-rich link anchor text. |
BigAll | $14.95 refundable review fee. | Newer directory, but rapidly increasing in popularity. |
Web Beacon | $39.99 one-time review fee, free for editors. | Originally created from the GoGuides database, expanded since. |
Azoos | $69.95 for the first URL, $59.95 for each additional submission | Allows you to modify your listing whenever you choose |
This is Our Year | $19.95 one-time fee, every 10th site added is free. | Price includes at least 10 direct links to your site. |
SevenSeek | $49.95 to add a url, will list within 2 days. No free submit. | Also operates a moderately popular web portal. |
Browse8.com | $35 one time review fee, free for editors. | Fairly new directory, not a lot of entries, but decent PageRank. |
Wow Directory | Free normally; $20 for express review; $40 gets you "Top of Category Placement". | Claims to be the worlds largest free directory. Maybe no one told DMOZ |
Skaffe | One time $39.99 fee, free if you become an editor. | Becoming an editor is not difficult, and is an easy way to get listed for free. |
IllumiRate | Free | Can take up to 6 months to be listed. Faster if you become an editor. |
Rubber Stamped | $25 one-time review fee. | Decent directory, but not much to offer in terms of link equity. |
Zeal | Free, assuming you pass their quiz. | Zeal redirects their links, so they're useless for link-building, but they can be a good source of traffic. The quiz is educational. |


