Directories

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22 Sep, 2015
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The difference between a directory and a search engine, is a search engine is an automated list of everything that it can find. A directory is an ordered list of sites generally examined and added by humans.

Yahoo is the best known directory, and getting listed in Yahoo is essential to improving the number of hits on your site. Getting listed in the other large directory can definitely increase your hits also.

Yahoo
Traffic equals Yahoo. That’s a good equation to understand. Get your site listed in Yahoo. Some things to remember when submitting your site. (1) Do not submit more often than once a month or Yahoo will not look at your site, (2) Be sure and pick an appropriate category (only one), (3) Don’t write in all caps, (4) Keep your description short, (5) Use relevant word in your description, (6) Be patient, these are human beings reviewing your site and they have a large backlog.
Alcanseek
Sites within Alaska and Canada.
Galaxy
One of the first directories on the internet.
Infohiway
A good directory.
Linkcentre
Another good place to get listed.
Linkmonster
Submit here for some more traffic.
Nerdworld
A massive listing of human-rated sites.
Starting Point
Starting point accepts all submissions of new sites, then ranks them based upon your visitor votes.
Whats New Too
A site useful to announce your web site to the world.
Moldovan Directory
This directory is a listing of new sites. The directories are very active, but are archived so you will remain listed for quite some time.

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Search Engines Vs Usability

Sometimes people seem to make a choice between making their site pretty for search engines or making it useful for people. I am always fascinated when I hear this discussion. In fact, it is interesting to hear someone say "I'm removing my Webring because Google will get annoyed" or "I'm deleting my links page because god, uh, Google, won't like it", or "search engines don't use meta tags, so I took them all out". These comments all ignore the basic datum about the internet. It's about PEOPLE! The internet is not about some silly, stupid little robots, or some faceless idiotic rules enforced by their creators. The internet is about communication.

Yes, search engines are a part of that communication, as it is one (and only ONE) want of getting people to your site. But there are an infinite number of other ways to get people to your site, from viral marketing to Webrings to link exchanges to contests to newsgroups to whatever else you can think of.

But if your site does not cater to PEOPLE, it will fail. Period.

Yes, it's a good idea to make sure your site is known to the engines and known well. But that is NOT the purpose of the site. The purpose of the site is to communicate. Pure and simple.

Google's customers are advertisers; the searchers are the commodity that's being sold to the advertisers. The search engine is the bait used to get the commodity to view the advertisements. SEO types tend to reduce the value of the bait, which in turn lowers the value of the commodity, which in turn makes the advertisers (the customers) more likely to look elsewhere.