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More ways to find directories

You can use other methods to track down specialty directories. In fact, as you get to know the Internet landscape around your business, you’ll run into these directories eventually. People mention them in discussion groups, for instance, or you’ll find links to them on other Web sites. I also like browsing for these directories in the major directories, Yahoo! And the Open Directory Project. Yahoo! Directory (dir.yahoo.com) has many subcategories for directories. It doesn’t have one for rodent racing, which

Apparently gets no respect, but it certainly has directories for many other topics,

such as the following:

Snowboarding > Web Directories

Photography > Web Directories

Radio Stations > Web Directories

Arts > Web Directories

Transgendered > Web Directories

Comics and Animations > Web Directories

For some reason, Yahoo! Directory also has subcategories simply called Directories. (No, I don’t know the difference between a Web Directories subcategory and a Directories subcategory.) Here’s a sampling of the Directories

Subcategory

Travel and Transportation > Directories

Business and Economy > Directories

Reference > Directories

Haunted Houses > Directories

Ethnic Studies > Directories

Pay attention while you’r you’re working in Yahoo!, or you may find yourself in the Yahoo! Search results area rather than the Yahoo! Directory. Note the tab at the top of the page. When the Web tab is highlighted, you’re in Yahoo! Search; when the Directory tab is highlighted, you’re in the Yahoo! Directory. The best way to find the Web Directories or Directories subcategories is simply to go to the Yahoo! Directory and browse for suitable categories for your Web site. Each time you find a suitable category, search the page for the word directory to see if the page includes a link to a Web Directory or Directory subcategory. (You can also use the Search box; search for haunted houses directory,

and one of the resulting links will be to Haunted Houses > Directories.

Yahoo! currently has almost 1,400 of these directory subcategories, representing many thousands of directory Web sites. I found links to 13 directories of haunted houses (a number that one might almost imagine is intentional); 13 directories of humor sites; 9 directories of sites related to transgendering; 7 directories of sites that provide electronic greeting cards; and 6 directories of fitness Web sites.

This grossly unscientific survey suggests to me that probably almost 14,000 directory sites are listed in Yahoo! So chances are good that several may be good candidates for listing your site. The Open Directory Project also lists thousands of directories.

Again, browse through the directory (at www.dmoz.org) looking for appropriate categories, and then search the page for the word directories. Or search for an appropriate directory: golf directories, golf directory, rodent directories, rodent directory, transgender directories, transgender directory, and so on. (Yes, searching on directories and directory will provide different results.) When you find a directory, see what’s in it. Don’t just ask for a link and move on. Dig around, see what you can find, and add information to your landscape log. The directory will contain links to other sites that may also have their own directories.