Vuwl Free Web Directory

Here is a site that has an Alexa rank around 50,000 and seems to be driving some traffic. What they have done is integrate phpLD with other software including vBulletin and some webmaster tools. Here are a few observations as of December 23rd 2010.

1. They have over 10,000 links and are actively accepting links daily.
2. Titles and descriptions don't seem to be edited, so the submitter is getting exactly the title and description they request, so some room for improvement there.
3. Yahoo is showing just 26 Inlinks to this site with some from Directory Snob and web-directories.ws. They might want to publicize a little more
4. No pagerank yet, but the 50,000 Alexa rank is impressive with the leading countries being Canada, Croatia, United States, India and Pakistan sending traffic.
5. Link Submission requires a login, but appears to be free.

Overall, it seems that Vuwl is doing some things right with regard to traffic and building a site that is more than just a directory. They could focus more on quality in the editorial process, but hopefully they will keep getting better and better!