Walter Gregg

Website Directories

May 2017. This update to the April 2016 website directory list just changes to the now current names of the surviving or derivative websites and to the HTTPS version where available. Within each category the directories are still ranked per their 2016 standing, from the then most backlinks and pages to the least, with the best score in a group being 4.0. Browsing these directories is akin to browsing the yellow pages. A directory's search function is limited to the home page titles and descriptions plus directory posts and articles. The content of the individual pages on the included websites is not searched.

General Directories

• DotDash.com (formerly about.com) - 4.0.
• BOTW.org - 3.7.
• einet.net (formerly galaxy.com) - 3.2.
• DmozTools.net (formerly DMoz.org) - 3.1.
• joeant.com - 2.8.
• goguides.org - 2.1.
• sites .google .com /site /deweybrowse (formerly DeweyBrowse.org) - 1.9
• netinsert.com - 1.6.

Business to Business Directories

• jayde.com - 4.0.
• where2go.com - 2.6.

Specialized Directories

• courtsystem.org - 2.0.
• sled.alaska.edu- 2.0. Redirecting to: lam.alaska.gov.
• bubl.ac.uk - 2011 archive.org copy.

Rank - Estimated Importance

The rank, or estimated importance, expresses no judgment on the quality of a directory. It's simply computed from the number of links and pages reported by Google such that the first few links and pages have greater weight than the last many.

• For each site in the group, get Google's 'link:' count, which is the number of links from other significant pages. If it is more than 0, take the log10 of this. For the sites in the group, excluding those with no links, normalize the result so the maximum value is 4. If Google shows no links, assign the value 2.0.
• Get Google's "site:' count, which is the number of indexed pages. If it is more than 0, take the log10 of this. For the sites in the group, excluding those with no indexed pages, normalize the result so the maximum value is 4. If Google shows no indexed pages, assign the value 2.0.
• Average the two numbers. Take with a grain of salt.