Comments on: Are Web Directories Still Useful? http://blog.clickfire.com/are-web-directories-still-useful/ where I share my Internet experiences, make friends and have fun. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anoush http://blog.clickfire.com/are-web-directories-still-useful/#comment-61868 Anoush Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:05:19 +0000 http://blog.clickfire.com/are-web-directories-still-useful/#comment-61868 Thanks for the useful article! I agree, no user nowadays go to a directory which is stuffed with mere links. If you consider registering in a directory to increase the traffic to your website, then you should consider registering to the directories that have a high PR, those would be DMOZ, Google Directory and Yahoo! Directory. If you consider registering in directories in order to get links to your site to boost your Page Rank, then forget it. Again only above mentioned 3 directories would be somehow useful, because most link directories are considered to be spammers. This leaves us the niche directories, which I consider to be pretty useful, if they contain appropriate content and are well-structured. Thanks for the useful article!
I agree, no user nowadays go to a directory which is stuffed with mere links. If you consider registering in a directory to increase the traffic to your website, then you should consider registering to the directories that have a high PR, those would be DMOZ, Google Directory and Yahoo! Directory. If you consider registering in directories in order to get links to your site to boost your Page Rank, then forget it. Again only above mentioned 3 directories would be somehow useful, because most link directories are considered to be spammers.
This leaves us the niche directories, which I consider to be pretty useful, if they contain appropriate content and are well-structured.

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]]> By: Andrew http://blog.clickfire.com/are-web-directories-still-useful/#comment-3215 Andrew Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:06:15 +0000 http://blog.clickfire.com/are-web-directories-still-useful/#comment-3215 From a user perspective I still see some value in directories of local content, in fact I don't think there is enough of it. Local content is, at least in the UK, very much under utilised at the moment so it can be useful to use the local directory instead of search. Very often the search results are stuffed full of sites with pages offering services to thousands of towns that they have no chance of visiting no matter what the job they were offered. This can make finding genuine local content more difficult; although, I will concede that Google are doing a good job of trying to correct that. From a user perspective I still see some value in directories of local content, in fact I don’t think there is enough of it. Local content is, at least in the UK, very much under utilised at the moment so it can be useful to use the local directory instead of search. Very often the search results are stuffed full of sites with pages offering services to thousands of towns that they have no chance of visiting no matter what the job they were offered. This can make finding genuine local content more difficult; although, I will concede that Google are doing a good job of trying to correct that.

]]> By: Devon Young http://blog.clickfire.com/are-web-directories-still-useful/#comment-3171 Devon Young Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:45:17 +0000 http://blog.clickfire.com/are-web-directories-still-useful/#comment-3171 The last time I used a web directory was in 2002....possibly sometime in early '03, but unlikely. I remember a month or two ago when there was some news about DMOZ having a hardware failure and some of its content lost for a while and some people were upset about it. I remember thinking "Huh? That's still around and still a web directory? Why? And people knew it was still there?" ....web directories are just not as useful as search engines. They waste my time as a user, because I have to do the searching and that takes a lot longer than if I type a few keywords into Google and let it do the searching for me in a fraction of the time. That's what it comes down to for me. The last time I used a web directory was in 2002….possibly sometime in early ’03, but unlikely. I remember a month or two ago when there was some news about DMOZ having a hardware failure and some of its content lost for a while and some people were upset about it. I remember thinking “Huh? That’s still around and still a web directory? Why? And people knew it was still there?” ….web directories are just not as useful as search engines. They waste my time as a user, because I have to do the searching and that takes a lot longer than if I type a few keywords into Google and let it do the searching for me in a fraction of the time. That’s what it comes down to for me.

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