flicker - 9:59 pm on Sep 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

Yeah, no matter what your taste in directories is, pretty much any directory that doesn't suck is going to have to say "no" a lot.

Otherwise they'd be overloaded with millions of crappy sites and no one would ever be able to find yours; plus Google would banish it within minutes for linking to every bad neighborhood in town, so it wouldn't be any help in search engine placement either.

Whichever directories you happen to like a lot, they probably refuse to link to a lot of webpages. "Niche" directories, which are probably the best ones of all to get listed in from a traffic perspective, are usually among the most exclusive.