Wow - thanks for a great resource Mary!  Lots of new sites to check out!

Mary - Are these recommendations above and beyond paying for a service like Best Web Directories?

Another alternative would be to use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Service (paying pennies per task) to  do the mindless inputing into these directories. Have you tried that service before?

I’m sorry, but this list is not what you’re claiming it to be.  Rarely do I see anywhere close to the PR that you’ve listed and most of these sites are designed for purposes completely other than real estate (unlesss you’re selling homes in Latin America or Poland) so to post something on them would be useless spam in their eyes and hopefully deleted within a few minutes if they monitor their content.  Others are deadlinks, probably because they wanted to avoid the traffic that your site is sending their way.  I’m officially removing you from my feedreader because you’re nothing more than a blackhat fraud.  Do you really think that this is what Google had in mind when they developed PR?  YOU are the reason for no follow tags and I’m glad that they were invented.  If you’re such the expert in SEO than you should be able to give people better advise than spamming sites that were created for a purpose other than backlink to your readers.  Respect the internet, don’t wreck it.

This is an excellent resource! thanx
Bookmarked For Sure…

Mary,

Show Daniel your true power. Say the word..push the button. We'll drive up to McClellanville and take him for a ride. We'll make sure to leave the cannolis!

Nobody speak to Miss M that way...give me the order ...:)

Geez Daniel...take a chill why don't ya. It's not like we're solving the worlds ills here. It's real estate blogging. You need to get out more dude...

Lastly..if you don't like what Mary's saying, go ahead and turn the channel! And by the way...are you implying that no Realtor could read a story about Poland and comment on the actual story?

Or do you think they will just leave a comment like.."Hey all y'all in Poland..if you make it to the states..look me up. I'll sell you a house" (sorry I wrote that in McClellanville speak.

"James"

It's not as if we all don't know who YOU are.  Go worry about your own site.  I post lists of places you can build backlinks from- if they go out of business or fall in PR- then don't post there- I compile these lists form trusted sources and I cannot check every link myself- there are thousands of them. If anyone is "worried" because I listed a site that is no longer in existance or fell in a PR update- then they clearly have other issues as do you. 

Don't know which was better the article or the comments to follow.  Way to teach- show both sides of an idea and stay standing!  thanks from a newbie  - cheryl