Do you need articles for your sites but can't find where to get them, then you can find them here for free. You can get articles in the best way form them.
They have 2 ways to get free content. First for beginner where you can use JavaScript, this is simple method and easy to use and second for experts XML-RSS method.
The other option is you can get content from any category so you will get content related to your sites.
If you are writer then you can submit articles to this directory so other peoples can use them. You can submit your article for free and you are not going to just give it away. You will get credits for it and your name and link to your sites will be always with articles. You will get links from all sites that use your articles.
They have lot of elements and options for visitors. You can read and learn from errors. This is very simple way to get content or submit your content to directory.

I have created a new bidding web directory

7NB Bidding Web Directory

Its new so price is very low (it will rise soon)
I am promoting it at many forums and social networks including myspace, orkut, webamaster forums, digg, stumble
So it will get both traffic and good search engine ranking

Eveyone is welcome to submit site there.

You can submit your link at here

IZEA (PayPerPost)is going to make one more ranking solution "IZEA RealRank™".

What they say about it:
The problem with Google PageRank is that it is both self serving and irrelevant to actual traffic and influence. The arbitrary and unpredictable nature of this ranking system has left both bloggers and advertisers longing for accurate statistical data since long before PayPerPost. Unfortunately, there are few options out there when it comes to determining the value of a blog. While sites like Alexa attempt to estimate traffic they are inaccurate and do a terrible job when it comes to blogs with smaller niche audiences.

I we believe we have a solution and that solution is RealRank. RealRank data is gathered from the IZEA Toolkit "ITK" (formerly PPP Tools). It is a piece of javascript that many of you already have and those outside of PPP will be able to get from a separate site without joining PPP or SocialSpark. ITK gathers REAL traffic information, much like your analytics platform and ranks users based on their standing within the network. The formula is relatively simple.

70% weighted towards visitors per day
20% weighted towards amount of ACTIVE inbound links per day
10% weighted towards pageviews per day

We are currently working on implementing RealRank inside of the PPP platform next week. The public site will be up within two weeks. I am excited to be able to finally provide bloggers and advertisers with a measuring stick that actually means something.

Unlike Google, we are open to feedback. We will publish the actual formulas for all to view. If we make any changes over time based on user input you will see what those changes are and why. We hope this becomes the most valuable site measurement tool worldwide and look forward to rolling this out.
Down with PageRank (beats war drum)!
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I like what they said in this post. 70% weighted towards visitors per day is good idea to decide rank but if they are really going to decide it by visitors then people get good ranking by getting fake visitors.

20% weighted towards amount of ACTIVE inbound links per day and 10% weighted towards pageviews per day. 20% on inbound link but I still want to know that they will care for nofollow or not. As I know they are creating this new rank because they don't like Google. Only 10% weighted for pageviews means you need unique visitors to get high RealRank.

The best thing I like is they will accept peoples feedback on improving theur system and will publish actual formula that how they decide rank for a site. At Google Rank, no one is sure how they decide ranks for pages.

Now a days lot of ranks available for checking how much a site important. Do they really work?
Let check some examples:

Google Pagerank
Most of people know what Google page rank. For those who don't now, Google PageRank is a google's way to say how much a site important to web. They ranked between 1 to 10. To rank a site they count back links on a site. More backlinks you get means better PageRank.
My this blog is now PR3. When it become PR3 is was not really important but it had lot of backlinks. It is very easy to create backlinks, more easy if you have some money to spend.

If you post your site to many fourm like i did, you will get lot of backlinks for free or you can spend some money to get links. At the end your site will get PR, no matter your site deserve it or not.

Alexa the Web Information Company
Alexa decide rank based on traffic. The no. 1 site its still Yahoo from the time I know about it. They give toolbar to download. I didn't downloaded this toolbar yet, its not available for Vista.

The rank is based on traffic but traffic count is based on visitors only who have Alexa Toolbar installed. That means if you don't have toolbar installed then your visit doesn't effect their ranking.

Technorati Rank
This is only for blogs. Their Rank depends on how much authority your blog has.
Authroty: It means how much links you get from another blog. Maximum 1 authroty from a blog no matter how many time it linking to you. You can say authroty is how many blogs are linking to your blog.

You can get authority by link exchanging with other blog or giving comment on other blogs also added to authroty. You can also buy links on other blogs to improve your Technorati Rank. So if you have money you can be on top rank no even your blog has only one post that is showing your name.

Trust Rank - Combating Web Spam
It still in beta so can't tell you how much it sucks, may be they are improving it before making it out of beta.
If you search your site on this you will find some result like.
PageRank
Alexa Rank
Listed in DMOZ
Backlinks from Google
Backlinks from Yahoo
Backlinks from MSN
Results from AltaVista
Results from All the Web

And the Trust Rank is same as Google page rank. If they are showing Google Pagerank With different name then whats new in it. Yes, you can use it for getting some other ranking info.

Google PageRank Prediction
iWebTool is a company that provide some online tools for webmaster and other who need some tools to make their site hot. This tool is one of them. Normaly google upldate their pagerank quaterly so you will see many new site with lot of backlinks without pagerank. This tool is like a live pagerank tool.

When search google.com it shows message "Insufficient backlinks. To predict your PageRank, you need a minimum of 100 backlinks.
Google.com is PR10 site and it showing ****. So I don't think its usefull.


So now.... to whom you trust.
I say "Check everysite yourself that it really deserve the rank that it has"

I reviewed 5 rankers this time, if you know more then post a comment I will add them when I make antother post like this.

Web Directories: If you have made site its time to submit it to directory. Do this work slow and in long term because getting lot of backlinks in short time is not good for search engines. They will ast your site as a spam and your site will get chances to get banned from search engines.

1.Free directories: This are free or open directories where you can submit you sites for free.
Some Examples of these type of directries with PageRank-

http://www.dmoz.org 9
http://www.lii.org/pub/htdocs/home.htm 8
http://www.femina.com 7
http://www.gogreece.com 7
http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm 7
http://www.worldhot.com/ 7
http://www.123india.com 7
http://www.elib.org/ 7
http://www.ezilon.com/ 6
http://www.epooch.com/ 6
http://www.christiansunite.com/ 6
http://www.toronto1.biz/ 6
http://www.canadianeh.com 6
http://www.aardvark.co.za 6
http://www.nzs.com/ 6
http://www.aigam.com/

2. Reciprocal Link Directories.
This is type of directories where you have to link back to directory. Its like link exchange.

Social Bookmarking Sites
For those who are new to it, in social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources, which they find useful. These lists are accessible to the public for their views and comments. This became a great seo technique now

http://www.furl.net/
http://blogmarks.net/
http://www.clipmarks.com/
http://del.icio.us/
http://www.digg.com/
http://www.fark.com/
http://www.dzone.com/
http://www.blinklist.com/
http://www.connectedy.com/
http://www.backflip.com/
http://www.bmaccess.net/
http://www.bookmarktracker.com/
http://buddymarks.com/
http://www.butterflyproject.nl/
https://www.chipmark.com/
http://feedmarker.com/
http://www.i89.us/
http://www.jots.com/
http://linkatopia.com/
http://www.indiamarks.com/
http://www.sphere.com/
http://www.listible.com/
http://ma.gnolia.com/
http://www.metafilter.com/
http://reddit.com/
http://www.shoutwire.com/
http://reviews.stumbleupon.com/
http://www.techtagg.com/
http://www.videobomb.com/
http://www.bookmark-manager.com/
http://diggdot.us/
http://www.simpy.com/
http://www.spurl.net/
http://saysaid.com

I advised to use Both.