DoFollow 001Letting the link love flow

Well, new year new opportunities. I don't know about you but the future is so disappointing. Perhaps I watched too much Space 1999 or Star Wars when I was a kid, but I was hoping that by 2010 we'd all be zooming around our cosmo/metro hubs on hover craft or that all meals would be condensed into one handy pill.

Still, at least we have the freak show commonly known as the internet.

I don't spend too much time hanging around this neighbourhood any more as I'm busy elsewhere. You'll more likely to find me on my web design blog at Suburban Glory.

Here's November's picks coming at you and what a pathetic bunch new directories are this month. The six below are the only decent ones I could find. This is probably the worst month so far.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Still, there is December yet to come and who knows what Santa will bring!

Elsewhere my blog directory - imaginatively entitled Blog Directory 001 - is roaring along nicely after its September launch so if you are in the neighbourhood pop on in and say hi.

Here's the best of this months free and paid directories. Their indexes have been checked to see if they are free of spammy links and whether there is a vigorously enforced editorial policy.

http://www.zaaylo.co.uk/
http://www.directoryen.info/
http://www.socialrific.com/
http://www.greenmind.metroland.com.pl/
http://www.windtaste.swobodnie.com.pl/
http://www.0000web.com/
http://www.foi.net/
http://www.adsforblog.com/
http://www.kbbgreen.com/
http://www.phamansinh.com/
http://virtualserver2005.com
http://www.directorysage.com/
http://www.addwebsitesnow.com/

Being published on a design showcase site is a great way to launch a new application.

All the websites on this list scream QUALITY! from every angle and to be featured in their showcase will result in lots of extra traffic and a great incoming link.

Many of them have thousands of subscribers to their feed.

As you'll see though from published submissions, they only publish the top division of web design; and although they nearly all have CSS in their title all featured sites are graphic heavy.

I haven't posted anything over the last couple of weeks as I've been busy elsewhere creating my own blog directory script, but here are the best of the new directories which have caught my eye this month.

If you are are an owner of a clean directory that has a stringent editorially policy then feel free to add them in the comments section.

http://www.dirsky.com/
http://www.directorybusiness.org/
http://www.hsmarket.com/
http://www.oklahoma-online.com/
http://ffadirectory.com
http://www.zub-online.com
http://www.directoryen.info/

Wow, this was a hard article to write because there are so few social bookmarking websites left that don't use the nofollow attribute or use redirects.

Sites like Mister Wong and Bidsonomy have flipped to nofollow, while others such as Furl and myVmarks just don't exist anymore.

In many ways it's not really surprising as their indexes were filled with spam.

I looked at a number of dofollow social bookmarking lists that can be found via Google - but consider all of them to be out of date.

Digg

There are loads of article directories out there but many of the key ones now use nofollow. Considering that they are editorially approved then this is pretty lame on their part really.

However, I do appreciate that monitoring links is extra work and that these type of sites are inundated with submissions, many of which are poorly written and need of revision (or binning).

Below are 10 article directories that still allow "dofollow" links.

It's not often that I visit Andy Beard’s blog, but browsing through his latest entries yesterday I flipped on my NoDoFollow Firefox plugin and was surprised to see outgoing comment links highlighted in red.

I then checked the comments of several other articles and they were all using the nofollow microformat.

I thought it was about time that I swept my administrator broom through the "dofollow" directory and removed dead sites and those that have flipped to the nofollow side.

I've removed about one quarter to a third of all listed websites.

I've also organised a new frontpage that places this blog preponderantly in the centre of the site rather than as an attachment to the directory.

There'll be more articles in the coming months!

Well it's that time of the month again and here are the best of the new free and paid directories.

I've searched through their indexes to verify their editorial policy and to make sure that they are not linking to notorious neighbourhoods in the gambling, porn or pharmaceutical industries.