If they don’t, they aren’t going to give you much benefit when you submit. Make sure they have high quality content and that they still show up highly in search results. They may have started out with high PRs, but they may have since lost that edge, particularly due to people misusing them. So, for the list of directory sites I’m going to give you, use caution and do a little research. A site with a high PR publicly might not actually have a high PR anymore, and there’s no way to tell. Those calculations were made in some cases years ago, and have not been updated since. The Google Toolbar still shows PageRank for sites, but it’s a snapshot frozen in time. This throws a bit of a wrench into the plans of anyone using PageRank as an indication of quality. John Mueller even said that they probably would not be updating it moving forward. Over the last few years, it has grown increasingly rare that PageRank was publicly calculated and updated. The problem, here, is that Google hasn’t kept it up to date. As long as Google kept it up to date, it was a reasonably good indicator, at that.
Of course, webmasters immediately latched onto this as some sort of simplified version of how Google saw your site quality. It was a ranking that indicated the quality of your site, and along with a host of other factors, determined your search ranking. For those following along at home, PageRank began life as one of the central pillars of Google’s search ranking algorithm.
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