Google has quite rightly decided not to recognise millions of link pages, both on directories and other websites, as being contrary to "natural linking".

An example of a crap links:-

Tech Reviews

Servers

Coding

Even the following is worthless:-

Mission of XHTML2 Working Group
The aim of the group and the work of the webmasters is that of I a about an are as at be by com for from how in is it his hers him her my mine me you yours their theirs our ours she of on or that the this to was what when where who will with why what.

If you are new to SEO and the mathematics of the Google ALGO you may not understand why the percentage of anchor to text in this example is 100%

Our Advice:

Don't waste your time seeking links from webmasters that don't allow 50 words of text, excluding stop words, along with the link. The number of characters is both useless and irrelevant, although we do love sites that insist on a minimum of 600 characters.