UPDATE: The submission form has been replaced by a  new directory submit form post.

Have your site listed in our directory of directories for free. Our only criteria is that the directory should have some type of submission process. We also do not list adult directories. Please note that lower quality directories may be given a nofollow attribute.

To have your directory considered for inclusion in our list of directories simply add a comment to this post in the following format:

• URL*:

• Type*: (e.g. general, travel, blogs, USA, Spanish language)

• Cost*: Free, Paid or Reciprocal (a free directory provides “dofollow” listings without requiring anything in return).

• Comment: Include a very short description if there is something about the directory that sets it apart.

Example

• URL*: afreedirectory.net
  

• Type*: General

• Cost*: Free

In order to reduce automated submissions only comments in the above format will be reviewed. Add as many as you want in a post. We usually add sites every 10 days unless high volumes warrant quicker updates.

Click the comments link below.

Note: This post replaces the previous submision post. A small percentage of users have reported a blank screen when they try to add a comment. We suspect that these people are getting caught in the blog’s Askimet spam software. If you receive a blank screen please use our contact form to email your information.

We are just added a new sort by option.  You can now sort by “Date Added”.  Frequent users of our site can use this option to see which new directories have been added since their last visit.  For example, New Sort by “Date Added” Option.

For example, here are the latest free directories added to the site.

Web-Directories.ws has reached the 13,000 directory listing mark. We have reached this mark despite our effort to concentrate on quality rather than quantity. For many months the size of the database actually shrunk as we deleted hundreds of directories that were parked. We had to do a manual review as most of these do not get kicked out when we use the automated tool to validate links. We attacked the listings in various manual and automated manners to clean it up. The information is as current as it will ever get.

Just this week we added an additional 300 free directories to raise the total to 3000 free directories. We also added over a hundred article directories.

Over the last year we have added thousands of new niche and regional directories. These seem to be doing well based on our latest Pagerank statistics.

I would like to thank our increasing loyal users who send in directory reports to identify inappropriate and mis-categorized directories. Thank you and I hope to hear from you.

UPDATE: The submission form has been replaced by a new directory submit form post.

Our site is a categorized collection of most of the web directories on the net.  We add most of the submissions through our research.  If we have missed yours please suggest it below.   As our list is inclusive we generally add all directories.  We never ask for any type of payment, although we do sell advertising on some parts of the site. Our only criteria is that the directory should have some type of submission process. We also do not list adult directories. Please note that lower quality directories may be given a nofollow attribute.

To have your directory considered for inclusion in our list of directories simply add a comment to this post in the following format:

• URL*:

• Type*: (e.g. general, travel, blogs, UK, USA, German language)

• Cost*: Free, Paid or Reciprocal (a free directory provides “dofollow” listings without requiring  anything in return).

• Comments: Include 3-10 words if there is something about the directory that sets it apart.

Example

• URL*: environmentaldirectory.net
  

• Type*: Niche  – environmental

• Cost*: Reciprocal

In order to reduce automated submissions only comments in the above format will be reviewed. Add as many as you want in a post. We usually add sites every 10 days unless high volumes warrant quicker updates.

Click the comments link below.

Note: This thread replaces the previous post that has over 500 comments.  A small percentage of users have reported a blank  screen when they try to add a comment. We suspect that these people are getting caught in the blog’s Askimet spam software.  If you receive a blank screen please use our contact form to email your information.

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

Directory PageRank Statistics as of July 7, 2009

Directory PageRank have been very strong over that last 2 Google updates.

The following factors may have affected these numbers:

• The N/A directories were reduced  because I manually cleaned up hundreds of dead directories.
• 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. More often than not these directories are still N/A or PR0 years after being created.  This time I added some of the networks but gave up because there were too many of them.
• 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 period.

As a result of the factors above, the statistics produced are more useful when looking at long-term trends rather than the results of individual PageRank updates.

The following table is a comparison of PageRank before and after the latest update.

 Here are the changes from the last update a month ago.

Google rolled out another  full update of their toolbar PageRank yesterday.   It is a bit surprising as there was just an update at the end of May.  Maybe the folks at Google want to take the summer off.

So far the news looks good for directories. I am in the process of updating PR on the list of directories but it will take about 5 days to update the full list.  I can only update about 2400 per day.  I’ll be on vacation next week but I will try to produce some new PageRank stats (on a rainy day).

Here are updated statistics after Google’s latest PR update from the end of May. The stats were compiled from our database of 12,000 web directories at web-directories.ws.

Directory PageRank Statistics as of June 9, 2009

The drop in N/A directories is do to the major cleanup I performed, removing hundred of parked domains.

Directory PageRank again appears to be pretty stable.

The following factors may have affected these numbers:

• The N/A directories were reduced considerably this time because I manually cleaned up hundreds of directories that were parked.   I spent most of my time in the article category which had hundreds of dead links.  I will have to spend more time on indentifying these directories as they usually don’t get identified by our automated checks.
• 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.

As a result of the factors above, the  statistics produced are more useful when looking at long-term trends rather than the results of individual PR updates.

We recently added a directory’s IPs to our listings.  The main goal is to identify networks  that host large groups  on the same IP.  From my experience these directories rarely go anywhere.  Most of them end up as PR0 or NA directories.  Many are easily abandoned, since little effort was put into building them.

While cleaning up the article directory category I found many  domains that were parked.  By searching the database for the IPs of the parked domains I was able to find hundreds of other parked domains.  These are directories that escaped the automated dead link check built into the system.  I will continue to remove the parked domains in this manner. In the next while, I will try to concentrate on quality rather than quantity.

After a full week of research and review, we are happy to announce that we have about 400 blog directories and 150 RSS Feeds.  We have added hundreds of blogs to our blog directory list and a bunch of new RSS feed directories. The list has never been in such good shape. Blogs directories are one of the few directories that can still provide your site with some real traffic.

We have also gone through most of the existing listings.  I have noticed that quite a few blog directories have stopped providing direct links to the blogs.  They are using redirect or nofollow links.  I have updated over a dozen of these in the list.

We have also created a new list of DoFollow Blog Directories. This category has directories and search engines that list blogs that provide only dofollow links in comments…

If you know of a blog or RSS Feed that is not on the then just add it a comment below in this format.

• URL*:

• Cost*: Free, Paid or Reciprocal

• DoFollow:  SEO friendly links, redirect links or nofollow links

• Comments: Include 3-10 words if there is something different about the directory

I’ll get them added to the list right away.

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.