3bees - 1:29 am on Oct 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

tedster - the aim of the thread is not to list specific directories it is pretty easy to find them by search - there are plenty of lists out there - directories of directories (i love how derivative the web gets)

what my thread is really about is deciding the traits of good and bad because there are so many on offer and on face value many look fine

but when i do some research on some of these many rarely show in the backlinks of the sites they list and many have 0 PR on their pages - so that makes me a bit nervous when using them but we know that these these attributes (PR & BLs) may or may not mean something

so i was hoping to hear from people who may use directory listings as a cornerstone of there link establishing strategy - what do you look for, do you just go for established directories, use only large pay for listing directories or do you use a swathe of smaller pay and free directories to get your site indexed & provide a bit of PR and some BLs

or as Tedster suggests - few but not too many - but how many and what quality - only DMOZ and the like and don't touch the rest?