The Engine Rooms

Anyone tried them?

[TheVisitor]

Hi

I stumbled across the above directory. Looks like they're after £30 one-off fee to be listed in a PR5 slot.

Is this a ripoff?

And if it is, how much is a PR5 worth? Or even a PR8?

Any thoughts appreciated.

TV

[IanTurner]

I don't know whether it is of real value but at £30 I would be willing to take a punt.

It is certainly a site that I have seen becoming more prominent recently.

[sem4u]

I have never bothered. The links are not clean so will not pass on any PR. I wouldn't expect much traffic either.

[TheVisitor]

OK...

Many thanks for your thoughts.

TV

[christopher]

They've been around since year 2000. Only £30 - I'll have some of that.

It's another link - Know what I'm saying........

But of course it really depends on what you're getting,

are they willing to go the extra mile? They quote

"There are over one million search engines & directories worldwide"

? FFA's perhaps. Why make such a silly claim?

Can they be trusted.

[bekyed]

Ian is correct.
The site will give you no pr as the links are cgi jump links and not straight url links, yes they have a lot of listings but dont let this fool you as they can add these themselves using the admin interface of popular links programs like gossamer links.
We build directories and have changed our links to straight url links and recive lots more additions to our directory in the process.
Yes its only £30.00 but if 100 people thought that way, they would be £3000 better off.

Bek.

[Birdman]

The links are not clean so will not pass on any PR

The site will give you no pr as the links are cgi jump links and not straight url links

I kindly disagree ;)

I have seen many backlinks for my sites that were redirects like that. Whether they pass pr is really speculation, but if they are counted as links in Google, then you would think so.

Birdman

[christopher]

What are cgi jump links?

[Birdman]

What are cgi jump links?

They are links that point to a script on the server of the linker, but then redirect to the actual site.

Say my site is foo.com and my link to your site is this:

foo.com/link.cgi?site=ht*p://yoursite.com

Upon clicking the link, the script will redirect the request to your site. This is usually for tracking/counter purposes.