The lists that still work, and the ones that moved on

Most of the advice about getting your work in front of other people is out of date in a specific way: it was written when a directory was a page you visited, and now most of them are pages you have to already be on.

Three small references that still work, each for a different reason.

The catalog of places that still answer

There are a couple of thousand destinations that still accept a website URL, and they are scattered across directories, classifieds, forums, article desks, profile pages and social bookmarks. The work is not finding them, it is knowing which kind each one is.

Sending a submission to a place that was never accepting them, or pitching a guest post to a directory that only wanted a URL, is how an afternoon disappears.

Backmit keeps the two directions apart, at https://backmit.com.

The directory of people who do the work

Sometimes what you need is not a listing but somebody who can do the job, and the hard part is knowing whether that service exists near you and whether it answers the phone.

Fechando is a directory of trades with phone numbers and no account required, at https://fechando.com.

The one that pays out in an hour

And sometimes you need something that pays while you are doing it, which is a completely different kind of task from the long ones. Short recordings, small jobs, tasks matched to a profile.

Hub shows what is available for your profile and what each activity is worth, at https://hubdata.win.

The common thread is that all three replace a search with an answer, which is the entire difference between a page that helps and a page that costs you an evening.