Increasing site traffic by Web Directories

Internet is the order of today’s world. Anything that you can find in the real world can be found on the net. From online movies to making social networks, from e-shopping to stock trading, from entertainment to education everything is there in the net. Only thing is that one has to look for the things of your need. Internet is a vast ocean where finding exactly what you are looking for is not easy, but your job is been made easy by the search engines and web directories.

A web directory is nothing but a directory on the World Wide Web, which provides you with links to sites. It is unlike Search Engines as one has to give key words in search engines to look for things of need, but in web directory, this is not the case. A web directory lists under different categories and sub categories. The different categories are science and technology, entertainment, education, literature, Business and marketing etc.

One of the most famous types of web directory is the free web directory. These types of directories offer free submission of sites. Apart from this there others which offer free submission of sites but a reciprocal link to the site is to be put in your site. Another type of web directories are the paid directories, where one has to pay money to get a link of the site listed in the directory. Apart from this there are several other types of web directories. The biggest merit of having a site listed in directories is that it increases the traffic of the site and also helps the site grow.

There are several categories of sites in today’s world like scientific sites, entertainment sites, shopping sites etc. A good web directory is one which does appropriate categorization of the sites. Also such directories should be user friendly. If the web directories are SEO friendly it makes the web directories more effective. Some of the very popular web directories are DMOZ, Yahoo Directory, BOTW etc. All these directories have the characteristics of a good web directory.

So if you have a site and want to promote it and help it grow, Web directories could just help you in doing so.

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