To satisfy my curiosity on how link/web directories work, I created one. Mix Directory my free human-edited link directory. It’s not very clear to me, however, if link directories are still being considered by search engines, but being a SEO practitioner (a little), this is all part of an experiment.
I don’t expect a lot of listing in Mix Directory since it only has a pagerank of zero at the moment. I have already sent some link love to it from some of my sites. It’ll have a bit of that green “google dust ” next pagerank update.
There’s only one problem I have with it now. My categories are so disorganized. I’ll be looking for a pre-made category list later and make myself comfortable with my directory program’s admin interface.