By registering a website link to a web directory, you can attract as many users as possible to the website and also increase the traffic to your website , so that users can use this list to achieve their goal faster.
What is a Web Directory?
Web Directory is a website which has a list of links to other websites, all of which are related to a common topic and provide an organized way to find websites.
In fact, unlike search engines, which provide users with a list of websites related to the user's keywords, web directories only categorize the list of websites depending on the type of content and activity. Users log in this section to search the websites which have worked in their field of interest.
The difference between a web directory and a search engine:
In a web directory, websites are categorized by topic, while in a search engine, the website categorization is based on keywords.
Plus, in the web directory, related topics and existing links are collected and listed by humans, while in the search engine, all available links are automatically collected and ranked by robots.
As a result of the point mentioned above about the difference between a search engine and a web directory, it can be concluded that a web directory which is created by humans, gives more relevant results to the searched topic, and due to the fact that it is done by robots in search engines, results are irrelevant to the topic being searched and are only based on keywords.
How to create a web directory?
As we mentioned, the entire list in the web directory , which includes a list of related topics is done by humans, and the entire list is selected manually.
The person who is doing this task must add all the required information to related websites, including title, site link and etc., manually to the list.
The web directory may allow other websites that have similar topics to the ones in the list to register their link in it for free, or maybe they have to pay for registering their link, all depending on the way that the web directory works.
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