The 10 Best General Directories

We review these directories for quality on a monthly basis. However, you should always do your own review of any page you plan to be listed on. Be sure to read our guide: How to Evaluate a Directory Before You Submit a Site.

Directory	Add	Cost	Comments
DMOZ	Add	Free	Could take up to a year or more for your site to be listed.
Yahoo Directory	Add	$299/year for commercial sites, free otherwise	Your site will also be listed in several international Yahoo directories.
Best of the Web	Add	Free for non-commercial sites. $69.95/year or $199.95 one-time.	As name indicates, was once an award site.
GoGuides	Add	$39.99 per URL. If you want to add multiple sites, charges between $19.95 and $49.95 per month to be an editor, plus enrollment fee.	Sites are instantly included. High prices makes it best suited for SEOs who might like to add a lot of their client's sites.
JoeAnt.com	Add	$39.99 one-time fee, free for editors	Takes about a week to be listed either way.
Gimpsy	Add	$40 to be reviewed within 72 hours, $20 refund if site is turned down. Free submit available, but can take months to be listed.	Focused primarily on commercial sites. Can be difficult to find the proper category to submit to.
Uncover The Net	Add	Paid submission costs between a $49 one time fee and $199 per year, depending on features	No free submission feature.
Site-Sift	Add	$29.95 annually recurring, $49.95 one-time fee, Sponsored Listing $99.95 per year	Lots of high PageRank internal pages.
Wow Directory	Add	Free normally; $37 for express review; $59 gets you "Top of Category Placement".	Claims to be the worlds largest free directory. Maybe no one told DMOZ :)
Librarians' Internet Index	Add	Free.	Very high-quality link, but not easy to get. Site must have a lot of informational content to be listed.

Other Top General Directories

Directory	Add	Cost	Comments
Aviva	Add	$34.95 one-time fee, $74.95 for featured link.	Well-promoted directory, been listed in Digg at least once.
Azoos	Add	$89.95 for the first URL, $79.95 for each additional submission	Allows you to modify your listing whenever you choose
SevenSeek	Add	$40.00 to add a url, $99.95 Sponsored Listing. No free submit.	Also operates a moderately popular web portal.
Skaffe	Add	One time $39.99 fee, free if you become an editor.	Becoming an editor is not difficult, and is an easy way to get listed for free.
This is Our Year	Add	$24.95 per site, one time fee, every 10th site added is free.	Price includes at least 10 direct links to your site.
Massive Links	Add	$24.99 one-time fee for basic listing, $29.99 one-time for 5-link listing, $59.99/year for premium listings.	Permits you to write your own keyword-rich link anchor text. Free for non-profits.
Starting Point	Add	$99 annual fee.	Quality directory, many high-PageRank pages. Not widely known, so may be a link your competitors won't have yet.
Rubber Stamped	Add	$29.95 one-time review fee.	Nice, growing directory.
IllumiRate	Add	Free.	Can take up to 6 months to be listed. Faster if you become an editor.
Browse8.com	Add	$35 one time review fee, $199 annually for Sponsored Site listing, $499 per month for sitewide..	Fairly new directory, not a lot of entries, but decent PageRank.
Web Beacon	Add	$39.99 one-time review fee, free for editors.	Originally created from the GoGuides database, expanded since.
01 Web Directory	Add	Free. $49 one-time fee for Priority Express 3-day Submission	Full refund if site not accepted.
Site Snoop	Add	$10 one-time fee.	Currently does not accept mortgage/loan sites. There tends to be a lot of spam in that industry, so this helps improve the overall quality of that directory.

The Top Article Directories

Directory	Add	Cost	Comments
Ezine Articles	Add	First 10 articles submitted are free.	If they like your articles, they'll let you submit unlimited articles for free.
GoArticles	Add	Free.	Unlimited numbers of articles can be submitted for free.
Article Dashboard	Add	Free.	Unlimited numbers of articles can be submitted for free.
iSnare	Add	Free.	Unlimited numbers of articles can be submitted for free.
Article City	Add	Free.	Unlimited numbers of articles can be submitted for free.
Idea Marketers	Add	Free.	Unlimited numbers of articles can be submitted for free.
Article Alley	Add	Free.	Unlimited numbers of articles can be submitted for free. Can take awhile for your application to be approved.
Article Depot	Add	Free.	Unlimited numbers of articles can be submitted for free.
Certificate.net	Add	Free.	Unlimited numbers of articles can be submitted for free. Will sometimes include your email address in your signature line, so you may want to use an email address that you don't mind being publicly available, such as a hotmail, yahoo, or gmail account.
Amazines	Add	Free.	Unlimited numbers of articles can be submitted for free.