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A Website Directory is something that specializes in liking to other web sites and classifies and categorizes these links. Unlike search engines which bring back results to you based on keywords, a web site directory lists websites by category and subcategories. Web Directories allow blog and website owners to directly submit their blog for inclusion and have editors for reviewing new submissions.

Some of the most popular web directories are Yahoo! Directory and the Open Directory Project(DMOZ). Every search engine recommends these two web directories in particular and once accepted, you gain trust in search engine eyes not to mention the high page rank of those incoming links. All this could result in higher search engine placements for posts on your blog and an increase in page rank which in turn would allow you to monetize your site even further. Oh, also the increased traffic to your blog by visitors to these directories.

Directories have various types of listings, often dependent upon the price paid for inclusion:

* Free Submission - there is no charge for review of the site
* Reciprocal Link - the site submitted must link back to the directory in order to be listed
* Paid Submissions - a fee is charged for reviewing the submitted link

* No Follow - there is a rel=”nofollow” attribute associated with the link, meaning search engines will not follow the link.
* Featured Link - the link is given a premium position in the category where it is submitted
* Featured Homepage Link - the link may be listed on the homepage of the directory.
* Bid for Position - a recent innovation (2007) where sites are ordered based on bids

Yahoo! Directory and ODP are very hard to get into. I know of a website which in spite of having a high Page rank and high traffic did not get accepted into ODP for over 14 months. I have listed some of the website directories out here which will help bring more traffic to your blog. The name of the website directory along with its page rank is shown here. The list starts with a Page rank 8 directory and lists page rank 7 and page rank 6 directories.

Website Directory with Page Rank 8

1. http://www.open-site.org

Website Directory with Page Rank 7

1. http://www. bloggernity.com

2. http://www.podcastzoom.com

3. http://www.blogrankings.com

4. http://www.bloguniverse.com

5. http://www.femina.com

6. http://www.gogreece.com

7. http://www.lanic.utexas.edu

8. http://www.polishworld.com

9. http://www.nationaldirectory.com/

10. http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm

11. http://www.worldhot.com/

12. http://www.123india.com/

13. http://www.kinderstart.com

14. http://www.portal.eatonweb.com

15. http://businessweek.directorym.com

16. http://www.elib.org/

Page Rank 6 Web Directories

1. http://www.ezilon.com/

2. http://www.yourwebloghere.com

3. http://www.epooch.com/

4. http://www.christiansunite.com/

5. http://www.toronto1.biz/

6. http://www.vxbox.com/

7. http://www.canadianeh.com

8. http://www.aardvark.co.za

9. http://www.nzs.com/

10. http://www.aigam.com

11. http://linkcentre.com

12. http://www.info-listings.com/

13. http://www.zensearch.com/

14. http://www.bluedir.com/

15. http://www.imegamall.com/

16. http://payvand.com/yp/

17. http://www.globalgateway.com/

18. http://www.canlinks.net/

19. http://www.albanywebsites.com

20. http://searchsight.com/

21. http://www.siteranking.com/

22. http://findingblog.com/

23. http://link-ads.com/

24. http://www.directoryforce.com/

25. http://www.gimpsy.com

26. http://www.iguide.co.il/

27. http://www.webworldindex.com

28. http://www.canadopedia.com/

29. http://indiafocus.indiainfo.com/

30. http://www.americasbest.com/

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