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.  :)