It has taken a lot of hard work, but Web-Directories.ws has gone over 12,000 directory listing mark.  Of note, the site now has over 2700 free directories.  The information is as current as it will ever get.

The most work occurs with keeping the information up-to-date.  There is a constant review of the material along with different automated checks.    I must thank the increasing loyal users who send in directory reports to identify inappropriate and mis-categorized directories.  Thank you.

Directory PageRank Statistics

Here are updated statistics after Google’s year end PageRank update.  The stats were compiled from our database of almost 12,000 web directories.

Some of the statistics are interesting. Overall the PR number for directories have increased.  On the other hand, the number of PR0 and -1 (NA) directories have also increased.   Over the long-run, I would say that PageRank has been pretty stable over the last year.

Factors that may affect these numbers:

• Most of our submissions that we get come from brand new directories, meaning that we are constantly adding new PR0 and N/A to our database.
• I often go out of my way to add large networks of directories that are stored on the same IP (so that I don’t add them later without knowing their IP associations.  More often than not these directories are still N/A or PR0 years after being created.  I’m not sure if it something Google does or if it the fact that each individual directory is not really marketed much.  It looks like Google is cracking down on these as I often see large blocks of NA PR when I do the updates.
• Since many of the directories are add by the editor of this site, the results cannot be considered random.  The results of any given date can be skewed by the types of directories that were added in the previous 3 months.  These statistics are more useful when looking at a long-term trends.