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Here’s another web directory that’s of interest to me; Trincas.org Web Directory. I was checking the search results recently for the term web directory and noticed that Trincas.org is slowly moving on up, and is now on the second page, usually in the 12th or 13th spot.

It has a nice new design and is well categorized, with approximately 425 listings in their data base. I’ve noticed that several listings were added by the directory administrators, which to me is a good sign that the directory will not become just another link farm.

It’s a fairly new directory, just under a year old. It should be around for some time to come and is definitely worth a look if you’re wanting to gain a quality directory listing.

PageRank 5
SEOmoz PageStrength 5
Alexa 99K
Yahoo Backlinks 40K
Pages Indexed 1390

Pretty good statistics that are likely to improve as I’ve started to notice directory listings, new links, and blog posts with positive comments about Trincas Web Directory.

Submission fees range from $20.00 for a permanent Standard Listing with 4 additional links to $35.00 annually for a Featured Listing which includes 10 additional links to your product pages or other important or popular site resources.

With the current pricing I’ve been noticing, this one is definitely a gem as we consider it under priced. Submissions are processed promptly; our listing was approved in less than a day.

Our overall experience was positive and we definitely recommend that you consider submitting now before the submission fee increases.

To follow up on my previous post about picking the right directories I thought I would provide a good example of a paid business web directory that you should consider.

Biz-Dir.co.uk is a Business Directory started in November 2006 and currently has approximately 368 listings, of which 40 are Featured Listings. These listings appear in 134 well focused business related categories covering topics ranging from Advertising to Wholesale.

The manually reviewed listings appear in relevant categories and are provided with an individual details page such as the one for eWebPages, and it’s easy to see that besides a quality listing you’re likely to receive a few visitors as well.

Checking their Latest Links you’ll find some quality additions with seo friendly titles and descriptions. It’s easy to determine who and what from the listings and the descriptions provided are for the directory visitors and not search engine spiders.

It’s also easy to see that the site is promoted and maintained by checking some basic stats:

PageRank 6
SEOmoz PageStrength 5.5
Alexa 98K
Yahoo Backlinks 28K
Pages Indexed 644

The individual details pages were updated a short while back and now provide optional links for added exposure of your important internal pages. A regular listing has the option of including 3 deeplinks and the featured listing has the option of including up to 5 deeplinks.

Reasonable annual pricing ranging from $15.00 for a basic reciprocated listing to $50.00 for a featured listing with 5 deeplinks should fit most web site owners budgets and not break the bank for a quality listing.

I suggest that you give them a look - I’m off to see if I can upgrade our basic listing to a Featured listing. 

Seems that with the scramble for inbound links little if any regard is given to the quality of a general web directory where the link is coming from. Submitting blindly may not be in your best interest.

I personally think the quality and calibre of a directory listing is more important than quantity. So how can you determine if a directory has the potential to become a quality Internet resource and not end up as just another hyperlink landfill?

There are a few easy steps you can take to judge the quality, or lack of in the smaller general web directories available today. It’s all about editorial integrity.

Most directories offer a site search function. Try searching for keywords associated with sites that you’d prefer to not be listed with. Pharmacy and gaming affiliates, adult entertainment, illegal products and services; you get the general idea.

Search for individual words such as pharmacy or popular prescription drug names, online gambling phrases and games, adult entertainment terms and phrases to see what kind of results are returned.

Look at the latest links or new additions. Review the listing titles and descriptions. Keyword titles and lists of keyword phrases in place of proper descriptions like the example below is a clear indication that anything and everything goes. You can almost count on one hand how many seconds it took for the editor to review this submission; if it was a paid listing I’ll bet the directory owner spent more time verifying the payment.

Bad Credit Car Loan
Bad Credit Car Loan, car loan for people with bad credit, car loans, car credit, vehicle financing, instant credit approval, car loan bad credit, get bad credit car loans, subprime loans, bankruptcy, slowpays, bad credit, no credit, bad credit car loans, automobile loans for people with bad credit, bad credit car financing, car financing bad credit, car lenders, poor credit loans, bad credit auto loans, auto loans for bad credit, auto loans

Listings such as the one above are pretty useless; you have to wonder how much traffic a listing such as this generates. It’s also a reflection on the quality of a directory.

Do yourself a favor; avoid the temptation of a free link when you know that the quality of the link is not the best. It’ll improve your inbound link profile.

Miho Creations and Dirsensei have released their latest template for Site-Sift directory script entitled Yellow Stone Theme.

Sponsored by DirectoryDump and eWebPages, the latest theme also has an available Wordpress theme for your directory blog.

A nice three column design, Yellow Stone Park is the latest in a series of themes from Miho Creations and Dirsensei.

Yeah, I’ve about had my fill of the crappy link exchange offers and the webmasters looking to get over on others for a link.

It’s seems some are so desperate for a link they’re willing to defraud others to promote their garbage sites. Here’s a typical example from today:

From: Richard Bean
Date: June 01, 2007 9:02am
To: Us
Subject: Get quality PR 4 home page link (Link Exchange request)

Dear WebMaster,
We are looking quality link partners for our site and your site http://www.linkbook.org  is ideal for the purpose.

We will add your link on the home page of http://www.ucepnepal.org/ (Page Rank 4)

Please add our link at home page or a good Page Rank internal page (not a link page) of your site.

Here is our link information:

Title: Richard Bean

URL: http://www.beautyfeast.com/makeup-tools/makeup-tools-main.htm

Descriptions:
Makeup tools assists in applying the makeup in the correct and precise form.

Or copy paste the following code:

a href=”http://www.beautyfeast.com/makeup-tools/makeup-tools-main.htm” mce_href=”http://www.beautyfeast.com/makeup-tools/makeup-tools-main.htm”
 target=”_blank”> Makeup Tools  looks shabby, funky and rough and has cool cuts and is very popular among young guys and girls in the present world.

Please let me know once our link is up and and we will add your link back in 24 hours.

Regards

Richard Bean

P.S.: If you want us to link to your site first please reply to this email with add first in the subject and place where you will place our link.

Wow! They’re offering to place our link on the homepage of a PageRank 4 site for a link to another site. Some webmasters must think that others are idiots.

For one, ucepnepal.org is a dropped domain with foolbar PageRank. You can look at Archive.org and see what this site used to look like when it was set up for the Underprivileged Children’s Educational Programs  (UCEP) Nepal.

So now some webmaster/promoter has grabbed up a dropped domain to use to obtain links to a crappy made for AdSense site at BeautyFeast.com. Either for a client or themselves.

You can look at the Whois to see that the owner of the dropped domain is not the same person owning the MFA site.

Registrant Name:Vaibhav Kakkar
Registrant Street1:H. No. 709
Registrant Street2:Sector 31
Registrant City:Gurgaon
Registrant State/Province:Haryana
Registrant Postal Code:122001
Registrant Country:IN
email: vaibhavkakkar@gmail.com

vijayowl@gmail.com is the email address that “Richard Bean” used to send us this crappy link exchange offer; maybe he thought by using a made up name we’d have more interest?

The suggested title makes no sense and the code is incomplete.

What’s really sad is that the owner of the MFA site is likely paying for link development. Hey buddy, you get what you pay for.