[Voting] Dir.vc Web directory Competition!

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[An apology for not getting this on time, perhaps we'll be better prepared next time!]

Welcome to the voting phase of the Dir.vc Web Directory Competition!

Following is the list of people who have been nominated, please review and vote for your favorite,

deceiver	http://www.articlenlinkdirectory.com/
zaaylo	http://www.a2zwebindex.com
wa2nlinux	http://www.lsdir.org
exweso	http://www.twd.in/
sjr4x4	http://www.mylocalservices.us	[UK]
harkster	http://www.yolander.com
poirot	http://www.2CVdirectory.com
wizz	http://www.wizz.to
fastreplies	http://www.amray.com/	[Canada]
ab80	http://www.linkernel.com	[US]
Family Guy	http://www.deepld.com
menj	http://www.directorypro.biz
mark	http://www.jirolu.com
ilbiscom	http://www.linkswarm.info
findmyhobby	http://www.findmyhobby.com
humm	http://www.blogaboutmysite.com/directory/

Rules:
1. you can only vote for one site,

2. You can NOT make multiple accounts;

3. you have to give a reason/ one good thing you liked about the directory; [140 Chars max] (i love twitter!  )

4. no your brother can NOT vote for you;  preventing misuse;

5. I am showing the IP Address of each post in this thread, linked to Ip2Location.com, so every body else on the thread can spot cheaters,

Happy voting, be sure to tell your friends about it.

Regards,
M.
PS: If your a resident of US or India, do drop me a PM and ill update the list for prizes; [verified Paypal email required]

[Reply #1 on:]

my vote would be between twd.in & http://www.mylocalservices.us;

but i think overall http://www.mylocalservices.us would get my vote as its a more useful service IMHO, and the use of color is good, soothing to the eye!

Sanjeev

[Reply #2 on:]

I should be bias and vote for my own site Article and Link Directory but im not :-)

Looked through the sites and i agree with Sanjeev on http://www.mylocalservices.us as it is quite a useful business directory that looks good, and i am getting ready to start a business directory and hope mine comes out that good.

[Reply #3 on:]

I like mylocalservices.us too aside from mine of course but after having done a little research on the site, I figured that they have a .co.uk site that uses exactly the same template, thereby rendering the US version less unique. It looks like a copy of the other site except for the extension. No offense meant...just an observation.

That's why my vote goes for mine www.linkernel.com

Cheers!

[Reply #4 on:]

... and the use of color is good, soothing to the eye!

color is good LOL

I thought directory is all about content, substance, site owners and visitors friendliness and usefulness. Silly me.

My vote is for AMRAY the Directory that possesses all those attributes.

 

[Reply #5 on:]

I beleive http://lsdir.org looking better, look different to others . I vote my http://lsdir.org

[Reply #6 on:]

Very interesting post in DP forum
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1715615&s=eef46cee2e5eb9d378e52c1f9c0e96d1

Technically we call them "web directories" because they list URL to web sites so people know where to find those sites and to visit them.

Without link to web site, we can't have backlinks thus PR and visitors.
Imagine Google without links to web sites.

AMRAY Web Directory is exactly what it says "web directory"
and because mylocalservices.us doesn't provide links to web sites it's nothing more than "web catalog"
known as Yellow Pages.

If you understand the difference between these two classifications, then you would vote for "web directory"
and that is what I'm doing, voting for WEB DIRECTORY

fastreplies

[Reply #7 on:]

Hi,
 my vote goes for www.blogaboutmysite.com/ , i like the overall design, and the site is well laid out, with proper listings,

not a directory pro, but mylocalservices.us - as fastreplies says this does seem like YPages, and what its doing in the list of "web directories" is beyond comprehension!

@fastreplies - how can u have listings for Crackz & Hackz and call your directory quality?

David

[Reply #8 on:]

yayyyy. my directory has been nominated. i won 1,000 dollars jk^^

my vote goes for mine DeepLink directory. if i won i shall buy every paid mob for phpld

[Reply #9 on:]

@fastreplies - how can u have listings for Crackz & Hackz and call your directory quality?

You forgot to mention Adult, Gambling, Pharmacies & Drug Stores Categories not to mention you forgot that Yahoo and DMOZ has the same Categories. We are not in censorship business and as long as those subjects are legal, we don't care what some morality freaks are thinking about our Categories choices.

If you wanna talk about "quality" then lets talk about 4 backlinks from 4 designated pages AMRAY gives to indexed sites. That is 4 directly to web site Search Engines Friendly backlinks all of which has been cached by Google and Yahoo.

How many backlinks your directory gives to sites listed in your Index?

fastreplies

[Reply #10 on:]

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[Reply #11 on:]

i would like to vote for http://www.a2zwebindex.com, a well organized directory, and i see no empty category! atleast i didnt come accross any...

Dave.

[Reply #12 on:]

i would vote for http://www.articlenlinkdirectory.com/, looks like the directory owner has spent hours trying to make this one good in every sense of a directory.

Rob.

[Reply #13 on:]

my vote is for http://www.linkernel.com,

Andy

[Reply #14 on:]

but i think overall http://www.mylocalservices.us would get my vote as its a more useful service IMHO, and the use of color is good, soothing to the eye!

Sanjeev

Thanks Sanjeev, appreciated

I like mylocalservices.us too aside from mine of course but after having done a little research on the site, I figured that they have a .co.uk site that uses exactly the same template, thereby rendering the US version less unique. It looks like a copy of the other site except for the extension. No offense meant...just an observation.

No offense taken at all The UK site is an established commercial site with paid listings. The US site only launched last August, so we will keep it free until the traffic ramps up. The databases and all listings are country specific. Branding wise, we wanted to give it the same and look and feel of the UK site, and also our forums.

Technically we call them "web directories" because they list URL to web sites so people know where to find those sites and to visit them.

Without link to web site, we can't have backlinks thus PR and visitors.
Imagine Google without links to web sites.

AMRAY Web Directory is exactly what it says "web directory"
and because mylocalservices.us doesn't provide links to web sites it's nothing more than "web catalog"
known as Yellow Pages.

Hello Fastreplies, good definition of a web directory, but My Local Services is a Business Directory. It has plenty of web links back, simply look on the home page and look at the recent sign ups. The original database contains basic listings, ie without weblinks, but anyone signing up has the option to have a quick basic listing, or a full listing, giving SEO freindly weblinks, as well a dedicated page of advertising.

Web directories tend to be script generated lists of weblinks, a lot aren't even categorised and fall into the link farm group. Business directories aspire to actually become useful resources, generating high numbers of visitors and traffic for their listings, as well as providing valuable web links back.

The US site has a long way to go in terms of visitor numbers, which is why don't charge people to list their businesses, unlike a lot of basic web directories, but still offers customer support and 24 hour approvals.