Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, search engines were… how shall I put this politely…

a bit dim.

If you searched for something like Calgary SEO services, the results might include:

• a page about aquarium filters

• a travel blog from 2003

• a PDF about municipal parking rules

• maybe, if you were lucky, an actual marketing SEO marketing company

Search engines simply didn’t understand the web very well yet.

So clever humans created SEO directories.

Instead of computers ranking websites, people organized them into categories like:

• Business

• Computers

• Shopping

• Arts

• People Who Really Like Medieval Spoons

The biggest and most powerful directory was DMOZ.

And ducklings… it ruled the SEO pond.

Here are more SEO directories.

Here are Ducktoes SEO’s own SEO Directories.