brotherhood_of_LAN - 4:57 pm on Jul 29, 2008 (gmt 0)

What to do and what to avoid?

IMO, avoid using certain well known "directory scripts".

In general, I'd reckon that directories of higher quality are unique pieces of software.

The comments about directories gloating about PR is spot on. Some of the "well known directory scripts" seem to use pagerank as one of their ordering mechanisms. I've spotted 10000 of them...

Google is obviously well aware of directory submission services and "powered by" fingerprints.