The Main Directories

To help you to find your way through the jungle of directories, here are the ones that should be considered on a priority basis.

• Lycos UK : Lycos created a directory in 1998; a logical extension to any search engine. Lycos is managed by professional referers, who look for institutional websites and high-quality content.
  
  
• Yahoo UK : Yahoo is the pioneer of Internet directories and remains one of the main points of reference. It drives one third of Internet traffic with more than 2 million websites in its database.
  
  
• Open Directory Project : This is a peculiar directory is the only one managed not by a business, but by thousand net users around the world. Anyone who is knowledgeable about a specific subject can administrate a category. Open Directory database contains more than 3 million websites.
  
  
• Looksmart UK : A challenger to Yahoo and Lycos. Looksmart emerged in 1998 thanks to deals with Altavista and Hotbot search engines. It has 2 million sites in its database.