Authority Directories

Are they really authority websites? What is an authority website actually? Are the extra sitelinks similar with the authority status? Why these sitelinks appear just for some websites? What are they?

Questions, questions… Unfortunately I’m not able to answer and I bet there are very, very few (probably just a couple of Google employees) able to answer to all these questions. The purpose of this post is not to find out what is the meaning of the extra sitelinks shown on searches, but to compile a list of web directories…the so called “authority web directories”.

Authority Directory

Since the first days when Google started to show the additional sitelinks to some websites, people called them authority sites. I’m not sure if this means these sites are indeed authorities in their niches but a thing is certain: for some reason Google see these websites being a bit different from all the others – a sort of special status.

So here it is a list of – let’s call them – authority directories. If you own or heard of another web directory which has an authority status, feel free to post here and we will be glad to add it to our list.

1. DMOZ

2. Yahoo Directory

3. Authority Directory

4. Romow

5. Zorg Directory

6. Zyas

7. Aviva Directory

8. Web World Index

9. Domaining.in

10. GoGuides

11. JoeAnt

12. Pro Link Directory

13. My Green Corner

14. Cascandra

15. Business.com

16. BOTW

17. Ally Directory

18. iGuides

19. LinksJuice

20. DirJournal

21. 2yi.net

22. Skaffe

23. Pegasus Directory

24. Site Sift

25.  Apahcinc

26.  SevenSeek

27.  Iozoo

28.   Rakcha

29.  Bam Directory

30.  DirectoryDelux

31.  eSubmitLinks

32.  DirWizard

33.  Amray

34.  DirSense

35.  AllInfoDir

36. Canny Link

37.  DirMania

38.  Ezilon

39.  Elib.org

40. GreenStalk

41.  Sezza

42.  CanLinks

43.  Arielis

14 Comments so far

  1. Applejuice on May 1st, 2008

    This one also seems to have that sitelinks. Linkspub

  2. Backlink on May 1st, 2008

    Backlink Directory just gain authoritative status recently for the search term: backlink directory.

  3. adda4u on June 29th, 2008

    Thanks for the list

    Will they accept general directories

    -sri-

  4. Sara on July 19th, 2008

    I’ve been submitting to http://www.site-sift.com for years and they have the authority status. I also send my clients to BOTW and Goguides.

  5. admin on July 19th, 2008

    Thanks, Sara!

    I know Site Sift for quite a while, even used their script a few years back but for some reason I forgot about it.

  6. iozoo on October 25th, 2008

    Also iozoo.com have 8 sitelinks….

  7. admin on October 25th, 2008

    Thanks for letting us know. iozoo.com has been added!

    Nice directory, keep up the good work!

  8. learnseotips on November 19th, 2009

    Thanks for the list

  9. xc06 on November 21st, 2009

    Hello, dirwizard.com has site links too. check: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=dirwizard&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=5b7cf21b103219ea

  10. ranter on November 22nd, 2009

    AMRAY Web Directory
    Free inclusions since 2000

  11. John on November 24th, 2009

    I think you might want to go through your list again and check if idk.in is still online! Also one or two others on your list have lost sitelinks.

    Besides there are so many directories that have sitelinks these days !!!

    Just to start – please check
    pegasusdirectory
    dirsense
    allinfodir
    cannylink
    dirmania
    ezilon
    elib.org
    greenstalk
    sezza
    canlinks

    I can just go on and on. :)

  12. Dan on December 2nd, 2009

    Thanks, John!

    Removed idk.in and added all the others!

    Dan

  13. arielis on February 1st, 2010

    Arielis.com also has site links.

  14. Dan on February 1st, 2010

    Thank you for suggestion. Added Arielis to the list.

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