In my last post about directories, I realize that I might have portrayed a very negative opinoin about directories. That’s really not my intention. Some directories actually have a great value - for example, the Internation Real Estate Digest directory passes a nice page rank of 4 or the Yahoo Directory which is fairly authoratative and powers many secondary search engines. My main concern is the plethora of new entry directories with absolutely no page rank - most pages sit un-indexed and your listing will likely never be seen by anyone, especially not the search engines. There is actually a directory code that you can use to easily build your own directory attached to your own web site. In this situation - as more and more useless directories pop up, the value of actually being in a directory diminishes. If you are going to list your site in a directory - especially if you are paying for the listing - carefully consider the value that particular directory will add to your listing before you click.