Why is directories important for seo?
Today customers would target on carrying out their search on the popular search engines as they sure that they would find solutions to their problems or they would surely get the desired service or product for purchase. However, it is fact that the search results on the same topic on different search engines are different; this difference occurs due to the difference of the working methodology of different search engines.
How directories based search engine work
The search engines are either crawler based (the traditional ones); pay-for-performance based directories based or are hybrid engines (META engines). Amongst them the directories based search engines are humans edited, in most parts of the search engines we use manual submission and constructions like CAPTCHA images so as to avoid the automated submission of forms, documents, etc. When the submission of or data occurs; they are transferred to a human editor that would regularly visit the website and would take the major decisions like whether to accept the pages submitted or to reject the submitted pages.
The crawler based search engines use the directories in order to determine as to which next page to crawl or which page has to be visited by the web spider. But, most of the directories do not have a ranking mechanism. So, instead of using the indexing methodology as used by the crawler based search engine, where we use indexes to determine the changes if made to the web pages, it is better to submit the pages to the directories along with some relevant description about the contents of the page.
However, directory submission and directory listings are required to be Seriously considered and thought. In a directory, the listing of results is influenced by humans and they are error prone so to avoid any undesirable happenings its better to enter a short description about the respective website. When searching is carried out on such directories based search engines only the descriptions submitted are scanned for matches. So, even if we make any changes within the website or its interior pages or site structure after the submission, then, those changes are not reflected, and they do not even affect the results listed. Some of the famous directories, available today, are: - DMOZ and Yahoo.
DMOZ / ODP
DMOZ refers to "Directory. Mozilla" and it is also known ODP (Open Directory Project). It is a multilingual open content directory that maintains the community of volunteer editors.
When searching for any category you can visit different engines like AOL Search, Netscape
AltaVista, Lycos that uses the ODP results. Here the users like me can carry out their search for a keyword phrase, and accordingly identify their categories. Creating attractive description about the web pages submitted and precise title given to them would serve to be quite useful. DMOZ even facilitates to rank the priority and categorizing the submitted web pages or web sites. For e.g., - if after submission the site was updated than the sub-category provided by DMOZ, ‘last updated on’ can serve to be useful as from this the editors do get idea as to when the sites where lastly updated. DMOZ even allows using of site quality auditors to maintain a web site submitted to itself error-prone and accurate.
How directories based search engine work
The search engines are either crawler based (the traditional ones); pay-for-performance based directories based or are hybrid engines (META engines). Amongst them the directories based search engines are humans edited, in most parts of the search engines we use manual submission and constructions like CAPTCHA images so as to avoid the automated submission of forms, documents, etc. When the submission of or data occurs; they are transferred to a human editor that would regularly visit the website and would take the major decisions like whether to accept the pages submitted or to reject the submitted pages.
The crawler based search engines use the directories in order to determine as to which next page to crawl or which page has to be visited by the web spider. But, most of the directories do not have a ranking mechanism. So, instead of using the indexing methodology as used by the crawler based search engine, where we use indexes to determine the changes if made to the web pages, it is better to submit the pages to the directories along with some relevant description about the contents of the page.
However, directory submission and directory listings are required to be Seriously considered and thought. In a directory, the listing of results is influenced by humans and they are error prone so to avoid any undesirable happenings its better to enter a short description about the respective website. When searching is carried out on such directories based search engines only the descriptions submitted are scanned for matches. So, even if we make any changes within the website or its interior pages or site structure after the submission, then, those changes are not reflected, and they do not even affect the results listed. Some of the famous directories, available today, are: - DMOZ and Yahoo.
DMOZ / ODP
DMOZ refers to "Directory. Mozilla" and it is also known ODP (Open Directory Project). It is a multilingual open content directory that maintains the community of volunteer editors.
When searching for any category you can visit different engines like AOL Search, Netscape
AltaVista, Lycos that uses the ODP results. Here the users like me can carry out their search for a keyword phrase, and accordingly identify their categories. Creating attractive description about the web pages submitted and precise title given to them would serve to be quite useful. DMOZ even facilitates to rank the priority and categorizing the submitted web pages or web sites. For e.g., - if after submission the site was updated than the sub-category provided by DMOZ, ‘last updated on’ can serve to be useful as from this the editors do get idea as to when the sites where lastly updated. DMOZ even allows using of site quality auditors to maintain a web site submitted to itself error-prone and accurate.