Search beat out directories as a primary means of navigation due to scalability and efficiency of the search business model. Directories are nowhere near as efficient at monetizing traffic and generally are not as relevant as search engines. In addition to search, there are also other forces killing the margins of directories: • Social news [...]

Some directories have recently been removed from Google’s cache, while others are not crawled very deeply. Additionally, some of them have not had their cache dates updated in a great deal of time. Google might be trying to slow the growth of directories by not counting the links from many of them. Make sure you [...]

Business.com is a business directory that costs a couple hundred dollars annually to list your site. In general, Business.com is a strong link that most businesses should buy in on. Business.com and some other directories allow you to list multiple links in your listing. There are also many industry-specific directories you can find by searching [...]

I do not necessarily have the best answer for that question. If you are building a site for temporary profits, then even most of the low-quality ones can help you build links that will be effective for ranking in MSN or Yahoo!. The problem comes about when some of those links that help you in [...]