The recent discussion about BigWebLinks reaching 1,000,000 backlinks in Yahoo! (congrats Chris!) got me curious as to the number of backlinks various directories have.  So, I’ve prepared a ranking of directories by backlinks.

I’ve used Yahoo! Site Explorer (show inlinks except from this domain option) to find out the number of backlinks, as MSN has disabled their backlink checker and Google has purposefully been misleading webmasters with their backlink checker for years.

One thing to note about the number of Yahoo! backlinks is that they seem to fluctuate within a range of about 10% or so, so all of the figures are approximate, and are just snapshots of what I found today.

The big winner, of course is Yahoo! as they are much more than just a directory.  They come in with a whopping 339,030,616 backlinks.

Interestingly enough, Dmoz has “only” 4,632,835 and Business.com has “only” 2,318,784 backlinks, which seems something that can be achieved by a determined directory owner within a reasonable period of time.

Without further ado, here is the ranking (deep link ratio is in brackets afterwards):

More then 1,000,000 backlinks
Dir.Yahoo.com – 339,030,616
Dmoz.org – 4,632,835 (42%)
Business.com – 2,318,784 (89%)
AliveDirectory.com – 1,913,153 (<1%)
BigWebLinks.com – 1,153,339 (5%)

From 500,000 to 999,999 backlinks
RelmaxTop.com – 955,902 (67%)
AvivaDirectory.com – 862,289 (26%)
Botw.org – 526,158 (74%)
Romow.com – 524,656 (5%)

From 250,000 to 499,999 backlinks
LinksJuice.com – 456,509 (13%)
2yi.net – 419,353 (<1%)
Haabaa.com – 383,166 (9%)
SevenSeek.com – 376,523 (<1%)
DirectoryDump.com – 326,338 (4%)
AllyDirectory.com – 314,700 (<1%)
ElegantDirectory.com – 307,410 (20%)
Gii.in – 303,566 (13%)
ExcellentGuide.com – 262,139 (75%)

From 100,000 to 249,000 backlinks
Cascandra.com – 239,644 (<1%)
Elib.org – 239,143 (33%)
eWebPages.org – 235,551 (32%)
Domaining.in – 225,430 (<1%)
DirectoryDream.com – 222,255 (<1%)
AddUrl-Free.com – 194,945 (1%)
Apahcinc.org – 174,448 (<1%)
DirectoryShare.com – 173,372 (<1%)
LinkForever.net – 172,678 (<1%)
Umdum.com – 167,814 (<1%)
KwikGoblin.com – 167,566 (<1%)
Map100.com – 155,922 (<1%)
MingleLn.com – 143,261 (<1%)
Emillie.net – 139,592 (<1%)
FourFind.com – 136,163 (<1%)
Szab.net – 134,113 (<1%)
Submission4U.com – 131,464 (<1%)
Index-It.net – 127,978 (<1%)
GoGuides.org – 122,839 (86%)
Biz-King.com – 122,202 (<1%)
SleekDirectory.com – 119,064 (10%)
AllInfoDir.com – 112,199 (2%)
Wezp.com – 108,074 (<1%)
UncoverTheNet.com – 107,262 (31%)
Browse8.com – 103,980 (3%)