What is a Web Directory?

[robinhood12]

What is a Web Directory
A web directory in it's simplest form can be thought of as a human indexed search engine.

Humans can visit a directory website and make resource suggestions through an online form. A

human editor will review the suggestion and add it to the directory provided it meets the

submission guidelines for the directory.

General vs Niche Directories

There are two major types of web directories on the internet, general and niche. A general

web directory will have it's resources sorted into a large number of categories covering a

wide range of topics. Niche web directories tend to focus on one subject with resources

sorted into a smaller number of highly related categories.

Purpose of Web Directories

The major purpose of a web directory is to provide directory users with a categorized list

of high quality websites from a chosen field or industry. With the advent of search engines

as the preferred method for finding internet resources the importance of directories as

information provider's has diminished. But, as search engine technology and the field of

search engine optimization have evolved, a new use for web directories has materialized.

Directories and Link Popularity

Current search engine ranking algorithms place a huge importance on back links to a website

as an indicator of it's importance on the internet (known as link popularity). Search

engine's value links to websites from web directories because these directories have human

editors. Having your website listed in a respected web directory is an indicator to the

search engines that your website has met a certain standard for quality and is a site worth

linking to.

Search engine's also tend to serve up category pages from trusted web directories near the

top of their search results so having your website listed in as many high quality web

directories as you can should be part of any website marketing plan, especially when your

website is new.

Getting your website listed in a web directory is also an excellent way to build high

quality, search engine friendly back links to your website and gain targeted web traffic

from both directory users and the boost to your search engine rankings from the increased

link popularity of your website.

Thanks

[iWeb-Sly]

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[Hosterbox]

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[samdonna]

I think Web directories are websites which hold one way links of all additional web sites and are arranged according to different categories to make best use of. As compare to automation techniques, Web directories are manually reviewed and checked, and afterward on positioned under its precise category.

[athel.davis]

Web directory is one type of search tool created by editors or researchers who do classification Web sites by subject.A web directory is not a search engine and does not display lists of web pages based on keywords; instead, it lists web sites by category and subcategory.

[abrianna]

Wow I really impress your post. such a good and very use full information about web directory. Your web directory information really good but i know about web directory and i share some information about web directory. Here Some information about web directory. A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links. Directories as a whole have received something of a battering by Google in recent years owing to the fact that there are now so many illegitimate web directories selling links online and acting as link farms with the sole intention of trying to manipulate the search engine rankings.

[samlisa]

Web directory is well structured and well organized website, in which links according to categories are stored. Submitting a site to such web directories can be a great way to build one way backlinks. Due to spam structure and mass submissions has decreased its importance in Google's point of view. However, Google has also mentioned in their "Google Webmaster Blog" that if a website is submitted in topical directories well organized and maintained, it could add a great value to the Internet.

[sneha123]

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[sannu123]

Originally Posted by robinhood12

What is a Web Directory
A web directory in it's simplest form can be thought of as a human indexed search engine.

Humans can visit a directory website and make resource suggestions through an online form. A

human editor will review the suggestion and add it to the directory provided it meets the

submission guidelines for the directory.

General vs Niche Directories

There are two major types of web directories on the internet, general and niche. A general

web directory will have it's resources sorted into a large number of categories covering a

wide range of topics. Niche web directories tend to focus on one subject with resources

sorted into a smaller number of highly related categories.

Purpose of Web Directories

The major purpose of a web directory is to provide directory users with a categorized list

of high quality websites from a chosen field or industry. With the advent of search engines

as the preferred method for finding internet resources the importance of directories as

information provider's has diminished. But, as search engine technology and the field of

search engine optimization have evolved, a new use for web directories has materialized.

Directories and Link Popularity

Current search engine ranking algorithms place a huge importance on back links to a website

as an indicator of it's importance on the internet (known as link popularity). Search

engine's value links to websites from web directories because these directories have human

editors. Having your website listed in a respected web directory is an indicator to the

search engines that your website has met a certain standard for quality and is a site worth

linking to.

Search engine's also tend to serve up category pages from trusted web directories near the

top of their search results so having your website listed in as many high quality web

directories as you can should be part of any website marketing plan, especially when your

website is new.

Getting your website listed in a web directory is also an excellent way to build high

quality, search engine friendly back links to your website and gain targeted web traffic

from both directory users and the boost to your search engine rankings from the increased

link popularity of your website.

Thanks

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[justinkamp12]

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