Integrating Wordpress with PHPLD
This is one method to integrate Wordpress with PHPLD. It does require that you have separate templates for PHPLD and wordpress. It basically runs separately but still gives you the nice SEO friendly URL !!

Free or Nofollow
Looks like Google is squashing all directory owners dream. Matt Cutts, who is the head of Google's webspan team put out a blog post about how Google will be going after people who has paid links on their sites or is it that they are going after people who are buying paid links...

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