Dirsensei Web Directory Blog

Continuously adding resourceful contents to our Web Directory is always a Top Priority. We have added a good amount of resourceful websites during the past months and are doing it on a day to day basis. Our editors are doing a very fine job in adding those and I must say that they are very well committed. New Categories have been added like Gas and Energy, Physics and some more in other Top Categories. Our long term plan is to add more resourceful topics on categories but not undervaluing it by immediately adding new categories without any content. Last month we launched a Page Rank Checker and this month we have added a new tool for our webmasters resource, The Google Keyword Position Tool.

RipenApples.com, a trusted friend of Dirsensei Web Directory, whose owner a young php programming genius had set up this tool for our web directory. The tool is a great resource for webmasters looking for or searching their specific keywords in Google. It simultaneously bring results in a 4 column orderly manner. It has choices in a drop down menu of any Google data center available and Google country extensions.  An indeed nice tool that can be used.

We hope to bring more tools to contribute to the webmasters resources on the world wide web and we are very proud of this contribution. Our primary aim is still the same and we hope to deliver the best resources that everyone can use. I would like to thank once again the staff and editors for their unending efforts of contribution and a Special Thanks to Anthony of RipenApples.com for his webmaster tool tailor made just for our directory.

Dirsensei has researched some of the most popular web directories number of categories, listings and its ratio. We have managed to sort the the list from 500 listings and above. We know that theres more but for now we can only gather this information. If anyone has any information on their directories or other directories with results and similar criteria please feel free to add or suggest it at the comment form.

Aviva Web Directory has top the listings of having more than 13,000 links listed across its directory followed by Sleek Directory with 4,000. While on the Ratio of Category/Links Aviva Web Directory has topped again with 8..81 Listings Average per Category and followed by Sleek Directory at 5.43 average and EwebPages at 4.12. As the largest categories in a directory belongs to Dirjournal Web Directory at 11,000 followed by Global Internet Index at 5,000.

These are Regular Listings Only listed in each individual directory Featured Listings are not included.

Alive Directory - www.alivedirectory.com
No. of Categories - Unknown
No. of Links - 3293
Ratio - Unknown

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Ask Directory - http://ask-dir.com/
No. of Categories - Unknown
No. of Links - 777
Ratio - Unknown

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Aviva Web Directory - www.avivadirectory.com
No. of Categories - 1482
No. of Links - 13070
Ratio - 1 : 8.81

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Best Internet Resource - www.bestinternetresource.info
No. of Categories - 1877
No. of Links - 1149
Ratio - 1 : 0.61

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Biz-King Web Directory - www.biz-king.com
No. of Categories - 794
No. of Links - 2767
Ratio - 1 : 3.48

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Dirjournal Web Directory - www.dirjournal.com
No. of Categories - 11,007
No. of Links - 1317
Ratio - 1 : 0.11

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Dirsensei Web Directory - www.dirsensei.com
No. of Categories - 505
No. of Links - 1260
Ratio - 1 : 2.49

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Dirsurfer Web Directory - www.dirsurfer.com
No. of Categories - 319
No. of Links - 920
Ratio - 1 : 2.88

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DirWizard Directory - www.dirwizard.com
No. of Categories - 491
No. of Links - 541
Ratio - 1 : 1.10

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Emillie Web Directory - www.emillie.net
No. of Categories - 519
No. of Links - 500
Ratio - 1 : 0.96

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EwebPages Web Directory - www.ewebpages.org
No. of Categories - 331
No. of Links - 1364
Ratio - 1 : 4.12

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Forplex Business Directory - www.forplex.com
No. of Categories - 332
No. of Links - 650
Ratio - 1 : 1.95

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Global Internet Index - www.gii.in
No. of Categories - 5167
No. of Links - 676
Ratio - 1 : 0.13

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Jeff Brown Web Directory - www.jeffbrowninc.com
No. of Categories - 750
No. of Links - 539
Ratio - 1 : 0.71

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LinkBook Web Directory - www.linkbook.org
No. of Categories - 981
No. of Links - 2047
Ratio - 2.08

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Link Forever Web Directory - www.linkforever.net
No. of Categories - 583
No. of Links - 2969
Ratio - 1 : 5.09

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LinksPub  Web Directory - www.linkspub.com
No. of Categories - 151
No. of Links - 1935
Ratio - 1 : 12.8

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Links Quitters Directory - www.linksquitters.com
No. of Categories - 409
No. of Links - 1395
Ratio - 1 : 3.41

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Romow Web Directory - www.romow.com
No. of Categories - 1009
No. of Links - 1275
Ratio - 1 : 1.26

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SearchBuster Web Directory - www searchbuster.org
No. of Categories - 739
No. of Links - 500
Ratio - 1 : 0.67

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SevenSeek Web Directory - www.sevenseek.com
No. of Categories - 721
No. of Links - 6532
Ratio - 1 : 9.05

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Sleek Web Directory - www.sleekdirectory.com
No. of Categories - 739
No. of Links - 4016
Ratio - 1 : 5.43

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Stiff Upper List - www.stiffupperlist.co.uk
No. of Categories - 225
No. of Links - 699
Ratio - 1 : 3.1

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This Is Our Year - www.thisisouryear.com
No. of Categories - 1935
No. of Links - 11611
Ratio - 1 : 6.00

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Trincas Web Directory - www.trincas.org
No. of Categories - 1192
No. of Links - 515
Ratio - 1 : 0.43

The number seven fifty five is gone which lived a long good noble life of 30 years. It was spawned from the powerful bat of an aging slugger named Hank Aaron on July 20,1976. It was occasionally challenged but was never beaten till a cool evening in August in San Francisco Bay. The record of 755 finally perished at the hands of a relentless, most of the time controversial player from the west named Barry Lamar Bonds. Tuesday night PDT 8:51 PM when Barry swinged a 3-2 pitch from Washington Nationals Mike Backsic driving the ball in right-center field in the fifth inning, giving him his 756 career home runs. There was a sell out crowd at the stadium with mostly documenting the bright moment. Flashes of camera and video shots from the crowd, Bonds hitting the ball immediately dropped his bat and raised both his arms in the air as he watched the ball fly with the crowd exploding in unambiguous ecstasy and the game stopping for some minutes.

Bonds circled the bases accompanied by fireworks over the San Francisco Bay and with pointed hands in the sky as he touched home plate. He hugged his teammates with his family brought in the field to wish him of what has been the beginning of a new record to beat in Major League Baseball. Then a surprise for everyone in a stunning twist of the moment when Hank Aaron showed himself in the big screen to congratulate Barry of the record breaking homerun. The tribute left an indication that with no doubt Aaron has given Bond’s record his support and unqualified endorsement. Only 3 players in the Major League and in the last 86 years has held this feat. Babe Ruth first captured the record and surrendered it posthumously to Hank Aaron in 1974 and now it belongs to Barry Bonds.

We would like to take this opportunity to provide some wonderful websites specially dedicated to the growing number of internet users, The Kids and Teens. In almost all schools worldwide, about 80% of youngsters of age 18 and below are starting to use the web. Due to the growing capacity of young internet users, parents and guardians have to teach and monitor the young generation of safe browsing. At Dirsensei Web Directory we would like to contribute and reach out to the best we can of providing entertainment, resources, games, interactive portal, education and other related information for today’s young generation. It is our privilege to help them learn and grow by experiencing to use the vast resources of the internet while surfing it safely.

We have gathered some very informative resources that can be accessible for todays young generation that we deem safe for use and mostly are government and institution approved. These are very fun and educational since it is a way of discovering things with amazing games, photos, music, guides and indeed best even for families to get involve. We would like to share some links and hopefully we could add more in the future.

The public could share websites for the youngsters by using the comment form and placing the name of the site and the website url. We would be checking the validity and child friendliness and upon approval we would add it. You could also help us by linking to our main site to better promote our purposes or place a comment.

Thanks
KidsCom.com - Entertainment and kids portal from ages 4-12.

EPA Environmental Kids Club - Fun and activities while learning about the environment.

White House for Kids - Tour the White House and learn.

Kid’s Space - A children learning portal.

National Geographic for Kids - Play and learn at the same time about animals.

Crayola - Learn about the wonderful colors with fun and activities.

Professor Garfield - Animated learning for children.

Club Penguin - The newest craze of fun for kids.

Neopets - Community of virtual pet owners.

Tokyo Pop - Social networking with anime and manga.

Kaboose - A family interactive website.

Summer is almost over and we have not yet spent our time vacationing. Plans have been made already and hopefully we could accommodate ourselves. The hectic work schedule had prevented us for our usual summer get away. The children are ok though spending time with friends and in the local community pool and recreation facility in Piney Orchard. There is a tentative schedule that we planned at the end of August but we still have to confirm it at the second quarter of this month. We have viewed some destinations but decided we would spend it if we can with my wife’s friends’ in Chicago and we used a Chicago Travel Guide to view what’s there in store for us. We also tried to see some nice places to stay but most are booked and quite expensive for this time. So I have found out this new site of Travel Accommodation that surely would be of handy now and the future days to come if we decide on going to any destination as it has a lot of useful resources as I can say.

Hopefully our plans should be definitely decided by August 15. If all are well we would be spending our week long vacation at the Windy City with friends and family. The children are already excited about the plans and they might be skipping a few days off from school since that will be the start of classes this year here at Odenton.

Improvements is an ongoing process and has always been in included in our long term planning. Fresh contents and informational websites are added daily at Dirsensei Web Directory. Success is always our top priority, grandiose service to our clients are our everyday goal, safe searching and family friendly websites will always be a part of our commitment and we have joined a campaign for charity as part of our devotion and commitment for the community. Developments are necessary to bring out the best and this is part of our continous growth.

While we are busy doing all these we have forgotten to launch our new addition for our directory. The Page Rank Checker Tool is our new addition and has been doing well in terms of its functions. It was launch and added a week ago but we have never formally announced it and now takes the opportunity. The tool has a rolling content for checking the page rank and on the side has a drop down menu of all data centers. This tool was developed by our friend RipenApples.com and is working on some more.

We do certainly hope that this tool becomes a part of the growing number of tools and we would be glad to introduce more on the days to come. We hope everyone likes it and we would be coming out with more in the future.

Seomoz Rand Fishkin owner of a Seattle based search engine optimization company has been attacking the directory industry lately with his mild mannered antics. According to his statements at his White Board Friday Show, web directories are a waste of money that he gave an advice to one of his posters. So where does this all started ? How come Mr. Fishkin suddenly came out of the blue doing this outrageous attacks on web directory ? It all started on late May or early June when most of the directory owners were dissatisfied when Rand, without an announcement, made the tool from FREE to PAID. Its ok when something in advance should be announced after all he has made the tool free for some time already and announcing it would not be of much a difference since many people would really purchase it at a reasonable price. More story can be read Here. That tool by the way was popularized by Jeff Behrendt of Aviva Web Directory of his Strongest Directories List . Now let me ask you this, how many directory owners helped Mr. Fishkin popularized his SEOMOZ Tool Page. Does an average or normal website owner care about page strength of their website ? Is it right for Mr. Fishkin to attack the people who have helped him dearly promoting his tool ?The problem with Rand Fishkin, the revenge plot is very open and visible. He attacked Aviva and Jeff without even considering that the guy has helped a lot in promoting his tool even though its inaccurate. There is a fine line between quality directory and crap and I don’t disagree with that term but taking Aviva out as an example, whip it and say it lacks the credibility to rank in its own keyword search term just because an SEO expert has been published as a QBC is totally wrong. A follow up on this is telling the public that he is in constant contact with Jeff, indirectly telling the public that they are cool with each other while openly whipping Aviva and Kwik Goblin is definitely a poor show of a stand up comic for an SEO expert. In fact the term should be a Modern Day Backstabber.

However, there are always people who believe in justice. It is an honorable thing and a very friendly gesture that John Scott of V7N has defended Jeff in his absence. See other posts of Rand Fishkin and some followers in this Section of V7N Forums. In my opinion Rand should have taken his own site as an example rather than others. That is a noble thing to do. It is like in a party and you are the host, have invited some guest and openly you shoot the certain invited guest with an arrow in the limb then you say now we can have a toast.

Base on an article by John Rang of Best Internet Resource the subject also should cover what web directories should suppose to be like. Most web directories are primarily aimed at gaining attention through irrelevant modules, content or worse lacking QUALITY INFORMATIVE LISTINGS. So what are web directories definition in particular ? Most of the Top 50 in ranking SERPS for individual keywords for directories in general are mainly focused on gaining popularity through SEO and link building (buying high pr irrelevant sites) but lacking INSIDE INFORMATIVE CONTENT. If anybody has to look it up slowly and figure out what I mean, these web directories have highly huge categories gaining so much pages indexed without even having a single listing. Blank and Nada. Some of them populate it with NEWS FEEDS which in my opinion is very deceiving and these directories are primarily aimed at profiteering instead of the usual authentic ones who takes the real invested time adding quality content. While their site description says the best, quality, high standards or whatever BALONEY they can think of I find it amusing that when I visit an important category such as Reference, Health or Kids and Teens there are NO LISTINGS that an end user can benefit from. But wait, look at the most popular categories such as Internet, Computers, or Shopping and you will find the huge amount of sites that are listed. These people don’t take the time to improve their contents but rather take the time for them to appear in SERPS and TRAFFIC as they claim. Matt Cutts should know this too.

John Scott of V7N and Jeff Behrendt of Aviva has some perfect examples of web directories when it comes to adding quality content. Not mentioning the pioneers of quality sites such as Best of the Web, Clush, Alive, Uncover the Net, Wow Directory, Joe Ant, Romow and more. Special mention goes to C Reed of eWebPages who cooks Japanese Food perfectly while his directory is one prime example of a well edited and useful content web directory.

The other sites in the Top 50 genre ? Well they are just primarily aimed at gaining SERPS, PR and TRAFFIC for the purpose of selling links and profiting like vultures with no intention of nothing and yet they announce their directories as the GREATEST of THEM ALL and placing descriptions such as……. WELL WHATEVER. So Matt Cutts there are some here in this industry as well that needs your attention. Get the axe and chop them off to make way for those that are really deserving in that GENRE.

Last week we were looking around our community and saw quite a number of houses for sale. Most of our neighbors have either relocated to another state with some of them went as far as going overseas. Land prices has really declined making it hard to sell your house on your terms right now. We have talked to many of the homeowners and most are dis satisfied with their piece of investment. It seems that they bought it and the price depreciated a lot. So we went ahead and see whats going on and viewed some of the properties for sale and we were surprised that they are selling it for less than the amount of what they purchased making it a total loss. I understand that there are many expenses incurred but it seems that one must be ready before jumping to a purchase since no one knows exactly how every business goes up and down from time to time. It is the same concept though that each must be ready for that rainy season ahead. Anticipation alone is not the brightest of the brightest idea. A very well executed plan at the same time some financial savings could be the best especially during these time of land depreciation you can hold on till the prices gets to a more favorable one.

A look around the neighborhood most of the eye catching property that sold quickly are the mobile homes. Especially fitted for small families and low budget, these are the most bought properties right now since savings is imminent. We looked for a couple mobile homes and we were impressed on their value and at the same time the interiors and land location. The community tenants are so friendly and amenities are of quality. I think this would be the proper investment right now for small families and small budgeted individuals. We are looking also to purchase one and might decide to rent our home. We like it a lot.

Future retirees that maybe are looking a for a perfect retirement home in asia should take a glance at Paradise Philippines. It is a perfect place for retirement as all the amenities are available. In fact the country boast of a friendly atmosphere of mostly english speaking citizens. The country side has white sandy beaches or a vast area of undiscovered forest making it an excellent choice for nature lovers while the city life always boast of the 24 hour night life. While culinary choices vary from eastern to western cultures, the local food variety has its own explicit taste and the availability in city areas are not scarce. Tropical fruits are available with seasonal and the all season home choices like the local bananas and fresh cut pineapples. Its a great choice of place to retire and leisure activities like golf, swimming, night time bingos or just a plain walk in the parks are the dream come true for people looking for an offshore retirement place or for a simple Philippine Travel.