On April 28th, I ran a job to check the link validity of our list of 12,000 directories (see our home page).   I was surprised at the number of directories  that were not live because “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”.   Why?  We are only talking about a couple of dozen, but it is still higher than usual.

I know from experience that there is sometimes a fair reason for  exceeding bandwidth.  Sometimes it is a once in a blue moon situation that does not warrant the purchase of extra bandwidth.  Are directories getting that much traffic? I don’t think so?

I would be interested in any ideas that you may have.

Directory PageRank Statistics as of Apr 13, 09

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

It appears that directory PageRank is still pretty stable.  The most significant increase is in PR0 directories which has been slightly offset by a decrease in NA( -1) directories.  We have to remember that the overall sample size has grown by 3%.

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.

I have just completed major additions to the Travel, Legal and Real Estate directory lists. Many of the dead link have been removed and hundreds of new directories have been added. I have added free, paid and reciprocal comments to most of the new listings.

If you have used the list before and are only interested in the new listings then sore the list by Hits. The newer listings will be displayed at the end.

PageRank: A small percentage of the directories were set to N/A, although they have higher PR. I am updating PR on about 2400 directories per day so all sites should be correct in the next 4 days.