Importance of Web Directories

[SIZE=2]A lot of web site owners do not understand just how important directories are. In fact, some web site owners actually question whether directories are actually an effective piece in their web site's overall marketing campaign.
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1. [SIZE=2]These directories can send you free traffic. As such, these directories are a very economical way in which you can obtain visitors to your web site.[/SIZE]
2. [SIZE=2]Search Engines are continually using their spiders to look for new sites. Whenever a Search Engine finds a list of links on another site it will update their database with the new site that it found. This will then increase your traffic and one way links.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2] However, there are some web directories that require you to place a reciprocal link on your site or purchase featured links. Even this is worth the small cost that you have to pay because link trades will benefit both sites and whenever you pay for a link you can almost be sure that they really do have the traffic that you are looking for.[/SIZE] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=verdana][SIZE=2] If you are unsure where to get started with submitting your site to web directories, then you should start with DMOZ. This web directory will allow your site and its ranking to move up in its results rather quickly, which is good for your web site since Google and other Search Engines view DMOZ as being very reliable. The best part is that as long as you follow DMOZ's guidelines your site will be accepted. However, you do not want to stop at Dmoz since there are so many other directories available. Make sure that you submit to as many of these as you can.[/SIZE]A popular seo friendly directory you would not want to miss out on is Dmoz. This directory has a collection of good quality sites. Getting listed in Dmoz can prove to be very difficult but if don't try you will not get in. And yeah don’t just stop at Dmoz, there are plenty more to look for.[/FONT][/COLOR]

Its a very nice information.I like very much.It is the most common and simplest form of a search engine.Directories should be a part of your overall link building strategy but like most said there are othere methods for SEO that are important also.

Web directories some how good to get quality backlinks and i do believe that directories has some part to play in link building process and is very helpful for backlink purpose as well

If the category page that you wish to be listed in is not indexed in Google or other search engines, then the page has no power to improve your site's link popularity. Because Google does not know about it, it cannot recognize that it is linking to you.

Web directories still have their important role in link building, I always start my off page optimization with web directory submissions..

We can get quality backlinks through these web directories. But i'm not sure whether we can get atleast some traffic from these directories. Whether anybody here getting traffic from directories.

You may wonder why take all this trouble to submit to web directories when it is better to focus on search engines? Well, first of all the search engines voraciously consume information on these web directories because the links over there are already validated.

Second, since all the major web directories are well-ranked on various search engines they attract lots of traffic through the search engine result pages. Many people, hard pressed on time, directly go to web directories rather than the search engines because all the websites are listed under appropriate categories and hence it is easier to find the right links there. You can get lots of direct traffic from these web directories. In fact direct traffic from web directories is highly relevant because people click your link under the appropriate category or sub-category.

Directories are a great way to accumulate valuable links, build credibility and boost your website’s visibility.

Thanks for sharing such a informative things about web directory submission. There is no doubt about it that web directories bring huge amount of traffic to your website.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful article. But i dont hope so web directory alone increase site traffic .we have to work with PR, article submision also...