I have been doing some research into starting my own directory, but I gave up after not finding the technology that I want. Here is what I want in the “perfect directory”. This script would have a web crawler that I could enter keywords into to find relevant sites for my niche directory, then it would be able to clean the data and assemble it into a basic directory (some of my help would be required here). After all this, it would send out e-mails to all the sites that I have listed, and ask them to fill in the rest of their information (no charge) and ask for a link back. I would make money using affiliate and google adsense links. ANYWAY, it was a good thought, but after spending roughly 5 hours online looking for the perfect newbie script, I gave up. So now I am just concentrating on getting my own directory database together. I am starting a spreadsheet that references all the web directories that I stumble across. Some of them are niche directories which only really pertain to a couple of my sites, while others are of a more general nature. I hope to use these as a back link tool for my sites. I started registering in the directories this weekend; testing my site at http://www.aa-exercise-equipment.com/ just to see if it makes a difference. That was my first affiliate site so I use it for a lot of test scenarios. I stumbled across a pretty cool site at http://www.strongestlinks.com/. They are a great reference in finding out a bunch of directories. I signed up for a free trial and got access to about 300 different directories.