Benefits of Directories

[canadiantrip]

I've seen advice to register your site to paid directories like joeant and websavvy. What exactly benefit you'll get from them? Do they even have visitors?

I have sites listed at dmoz, yahoo, and google. Clear benefits from them are, other websites uses their data, thus bringing in backlinks and visitors to my site. Also, many users uses those directories.

[Connie]

I believe Websavvy has good traffic. In regard to traffic, I get virtually no traffic from any directory. Just my opinion, but I suspect whether a site gets traffic from a directory will depend on what the site is about. My site is strictly commercial. I suspect people looking for the products I sell are going to use the SEs.

If you get traffic from Yahoo and DMOZ, my guess would be you would get some traffic from a quality directory like Websavvy.

[WebSavvy]

Do they even have visitors?
Of course we do. We get traffic from all over the place.

As far as benefits go, there obviously is value to some site owners as I consistently get repeat business from some same individuals. I have one guy that's a web designer and he submits around 8 client sites every month and has for over a year. I have 3-4 other people that submit 2-3 sites every month and have for over a year.

These people wouldn't keep coming back if there was no value in it for them.

I can't say that every site would get traffic from us because I have no way to know that. However, I'm sure a good percentage of them do because our external link click-thru stats tell us that.

However, whatever site is submitted must be 100% clean and meet our quality guidelines and be family safe or it will not make it into our index. We've turned down several sites because they didn't meet the guidelines. The majority of sites that have been submitted have been quality sites that met our guidelines so therefore those were listed.

[Sambit]

I've seen advice to register your site to paid directories like joeant and websavvy. What exactly benefit you'll get from them? Do they even have visitors?

I have sites listed at dmoz, yahoo, and google. Clear benefits from them are, other websites uses their data, thus bringing in backlinks and visitors to my site. Also, many users uses those directories.

If a site is already in Dmoz and Yahoo, then no need to submit in other paid directories.
We all know DMOZ is the best free human edited directory. But I doubt regarding how many users really searching sites in it. Most of the visitorsare mainly come for submission purpose.
I am not against submitting site in other paid dir, but if you don't then you are not going to loose anything.

[WebSavvy]

Sambit, people submit to other directories (both free and paid) because DMOZ takes a long time to get listed in, some cases more than 4 years (I know I waited that long!) and Yahoo costs $300 a year and there's no guarantee your site would be listed.

People are more willing to go for a directory that doesn't take as long to review their site, and doesn't charge such a high nonrefundable fee as opposed to a lower nonrefundable fee at other directories.

People have all kinds of reasons for submitting to more directories other than just DMOZ and Yahoo.

[IncrediBILL]

Do they even have visitors?

Hell yeah!

I run a niche directory that gets from 20K-40K visitors a day with monthly traffic from 700k-1M visitors a month depending on the season.

Just being listed will get you SOME traffic, but being an advertiser (sponsored link) can get you a TON of highly qualified traffic for much less than SE PPC programs.

IMO being listed isn't nearly as important as advertising because being the top listing above the fold is directory traffic ****.

[SEFL]

We all know DMOZ is the best free human edited directory.

That's like comparing T-ball shortstops. No matter what, you're only dealing with 6-year-olds.

As far as Deb's site goes, she's borderline OCD with that thing and it shows in the quality of listings in general. She don't put no crap in there.

[WebSavvy]

Adam, what does "OCD" mean?

[IncrediBILL]

Adam, what does "OCD" mean?

Obsessive Compulsive Deb

[WebSavvy]

LOL @ Bill

[Sambit]

Sambit, people submit to other directories (both free and paid) because DMOZ takes a long time to get listed in, some cases more than 4 years (I know I waited that long!) and Yahoo costs $300 a year and there's no guarantee your site would be listed.

People are more willing to go for a directory that doesn't take as long to review their site, and doesn't charge such a high nonrefundable fee as opposed to a lower nonrefundable fee at other directories.

People have all kinds of reasons for submitting to more directories other than just DMOZ and Yahoo.

Agree with you.

I told like this bcoz he is telling that his site is already there in DMOZ & Yahoo.

[SEFL]

Actually, Bill's not far off. OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. (It's a backhanded compliment, since I'm the same way with things.)

[canadiantrip]

Bill, what's your directory URL?

[IncrediBILL]

Bill, what's your directory URL?

a mystery...

Unless you see me wearing my polo shirts with my logo embroidered on the front ;)

[SEFL]

www.grumpyolddrunkbastardsfavoritesites.edu (Bill got an .EDU strictly for search engine reasons. ;) )