Bob Mutch coins "ILQ" - Inbound Link Quality

Written by Bob Mutch

With most SEO experts holding that PR has little or no ranking weight most people are lost as how to rate the value of a directory and which of the odd 1500 directories are the most important to add their site to.

Many of us can rattle of the top 5 or 10 directories but past that most don't know. We all know that dir.yahoo and dmoz are the top. Then zeal, busines.com, and ms bsd, but after that opinions really diverge.

I have to admit that I didn't really know for sure myself until I was asked by the director of CRGP at stanford.edu. When he asked me about the value of my super link package I had to tell him that was some thing he wouldn't be interested in.
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That is when I started to rack my head for a good system to rate directories. I needed a system that was simple, that most people could agree on, and that could easily show the value of a directory.

I have put together a system that rates the value of inbound links a directory has. Here is how the points are awarded.

With a submission to dir.yahoo getting you on the average 15 links I have given Yahoo 1 point per link (15 points per submission). 1 link from DMOZ gets you 30 points (twice the value of a dir.yahoo submission), edu's I have valued at 1.5 times a dmoz link (45 points) and gov's 1.5 times a edu link (67 points).

Here is my list of the top 43 directories rated using the Inbound Link Quality (ILQ) system.

QLR | URL
5810987 www.dmoz.org
5133260 dir.yahoo.com
475426 www.lii.org
113947 www.business.com
44671 sbd.bcentral.com
12490 www.whatuseek.com
9974 www.zeal.com
9397 www.cannylink.com
5824 www.123world.com
5340 www.americasbest.com
4911 www.joeant.com
4892 www.chiff.com
3357 www.mavicanet.com
2369 www.botw.org
1949 www.elib.org
1545 www.isedb.com
1227 www.rlrouse.com
1169 www.gimpsy.com
1110 www.goguides.org
1107 www.uncoverthenet.com
922 www.qango.com
922 www.azoos.com
777 www.bigall.com
691 www.azoos.com
672 www.exactseek.com
635 www.illumirate.com
629 www.web10.us
569 httwww.skaffe.com
525 www.businessseek.biz
495 www.platinax.co.uk/directory
450 www.informationoutpost.com
418 www.thisisouryear.com
405 www.abilogic.com
255 www.relmaxtop.com
250 www.sunsteam.com
202 www.alivedirectory.com
135 www.site-sift.com
120 www.wowdirectory.com
96 www.01webdirectory.com
90 www.socengine.com
75 www.sporge.com
75 www.yeandi.com
42 www.massivelinks.com


The home of this list is can be found at the below link where the values will be updated regularly and number of dir.yahoo, dmoz, edu and gov links shown.
www.seocompany.ca/directory/top-web-directories.html