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[Old Cynic]

Last Sunday I spent (wasted?) half an hour composing a detailed entry for a certain directory.

Later I did some research and observed:

a) I couldn't find via Yahoo or MSN reports of any links from this directory to any of several listed sites.

b) The directory is largely dynamically generated which explains the previous point. I even located the software used to generate the directory which is:

http://turn-k.net/k-links/distributions .

This site list the directories which have been built with its software.

Any thoughts ?

[Dan]

After a quick look through the "showcases", the only directory that looks familiar is http://businesswebdirectory.biz/ (its in my list).

I did a site: in Google, it returned 10,400 pages, so it's very well indexed there. Msn returned 252, and 11 in Yahoo. The outbounds are static, nofollow isn't used, and the robots.txt doesn't restrict access to SE robots.

To my way of thinking this particular directory fits the bill (at least for Google and MSN), and that means the directory script does too. However, most scripts give their owners a variety of options that they can set. For example they can choose between dynamic or static linking;reciprocal, paid or free. So whilst the directory you looked at using Turn-k might have been unfriendly, it doesn't mean all will.

[Old Cynic]

I previously had used MSN and Yahoo to look at the site. Thanks to your suggestion, a quick use of 'site:' showed me that Google had indeed indexed pages deep within the directory within the same category to which I submitted.

Perhaps I thought that the directory looked too good to be true! My submission was also accepted and added remarkably quickly.

Thanks once again.