Directories - worth it?

[etali]

There seems to be a huge number of directories cropping up these days - are they worth submitting to any more?

I think they are, but even DMOZ probably isn't worth as much as it used to be. A backlink is good, and DMOZ itself is high pagerank, but a lot of the smaller directories, while ranked high on their front page, aren't so good when you dig deeper. The category your site ends up in could be a PR0 sub-page that hardly anyone will ever see.

What do you think?

[sjaguar13]

Google favors DMOZ. It's what they use to make their own directory, so even though the sub-page may only be PR0, it's still worth a lot. Most backlinks are good. Some people argue that if the page has more than 30 outgoing links, the link is worthless. It's very easy for a directory to get that many links on a page, but I still add mine. I don't do it by hand, though. I try to get as many links as possible, mainly for the PR. I just lost an auction on SnapNames where a pretty stupid domain name went for $1,550 just because it was a PR7.

[etali]

I wasn't referring specifically to DMOZ when I mentioned the PR0 thing (wow, are there really pages on DMOZ that low?). You make good points though.

What software do you use to add your pages to directories?

[sjaguar13]

The software I use is custom programmed by me. I plan on releasing it soon, though. Currently it submits sites to several hundred directories. There are a few other features I would like to add, plus more directories. It is a script, but the amount of work it does is enough that it timesout before completing. I am thinking about making it a standalone script, or setting up some type of database of jobs along with a cronjob that completes the database jobs, if I want to keep it web-based.