directory-inclusion-examples

Directory inclusion examples

This is a page for documenting ways people link to directories and build directories in a distributed manner.

Authors

• Ryan King
• Tantek Çelik

Examples

• directory urls?
  • Lot of directories do 'listed in foo' links (often with a badge), but don't link to the specific part of the directory they're listed in, e.g.
    • http://www.blogwise.com/
    • http://sfbaybloggers.com/ (which is a local directory of blogs for the San Francisco bay area)
  • Many require manual submission with a form with contact information etc., e.g.
    • http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
• how do people indicate 'a directory for a page'?
  • Hardly anyone links to the specific page, many link to the root of the directory. For example, many blogshares listed blogs use to signify that they're listed, but not where in the directory they're listed.
  • Blogwise does it thusly: <a href="http://www.blogwise.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogwise.com/buttons/88_31_1.gif" border="1" width="88" height="31" alt="Blogwise - blog directory"></a>
• odeo
  • Odeo's channel pages (like one link to a directory listing of similar podcasts. Incidentally, this is also a rel-tag link. There links look like <a href="/tag/tech" id="t254" rel="tag">tech</a>

Formats

See directory-inclusion-formats.