One of the first sites to take up a featured listing in our resource directory is mainsearches.com, a SEO Web Directory.

It is a well designed and well-organised general directory (like DMOZ and BOTW) with a large number of categories where you can submit sites. It offers regular, featured and reciprocal listing options (with extra deep links) and is also human edited and reviewed.

With thousands of web directories of varying quality to choose from, how do you decide which ones are worth spending money on? And, even if they are free, submitting your site takes time which we are all short of.

There are a number of things to look for in a quality web directory:

• Are the links it provides search engine friendly?
• Does it have PageRank?
• Are it’s internal pages cached by Google?
• Are the sites already listed of good quality and well categorised?
• Does it offer extra links?

These factors indicate that the link you get from a directory is worth it and of good quality – mainsearches.com meets all of these criteria and offers pretty good value too at $8.99 (price at time of writing) for a regular listing with 5 extra links .