Web Directories – Are they useful?
I've had a lot of people ask me whether I think its worth submitting websites to 'web directories'... "will I get traffic by submitting my site to a directory?". The answer isn't as straight forward as it used to be. When I first started out on the net, developing websites... waaay back in 1998; I was advised by experienced webmasters that I could get good traffic by submitting my sites to web directories. There...
What is a “Web Directory”?
Web Directories are sometimes confused with 'search engines' - and vice versa, but they are not the same thing. The biggest difference is probably that a Web directory is maintained by humans (in most cases) instead of software and the Web sites are organized by subject. The searcher looks at sites organized in a series of categories and menus. 'Web directories' are usually much smaller than search engines'...
