Philosopher - 5:41 pm on Jun 22, 2007 (gmt 0)

Here's my feel on the myriad/plethora/abundance/overgrowth of directories out there.

About 95% of them are cr*p and are designed to:

a) harvest submission emails for spam
b) have user submitted content for adsense, etc.
c) earn some extra money for the "upgraded" listings
d) all of the above and then some.

If you do some research you will find most directories either have no internal PR (intentionally or unintentionally) or their links run through redirects designed not to pass PR/link juice.

Will they help your ranking? Maybe a smidge, but for the most part the vast majority of them are useless.

There are a handful of directories I've found (say 30-40) that seem to be worth much in terms of link value(don't ask which...lots of research time involved).