Human edited directory
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Web directories are the very useful part of the internet search technology. Most of the web directories are maintained by humans. Weather it is their administrators or a group of people who are hired as paid staff or volunteered. The best and the biggest example of our time is DMOZ.com the open directory project.
Many new directories have came into existence in past some years. Some are focused towards a particular niche like Travels, Real-estate, etc. Other major number of directories are the ones that provide listings of all the general web sites. Most of them allow a free listing on the directory as they monetize their web directories with the advertises from the sponsors or with google adsense. While other directories require you to pay a listing fees to get listed in that directory.
Web directory is the food for the search engine bot as they can get listings and the URL’s properly categorized by some human while crawling that directory. The incoming link for premium directories like DMOZ and Yahoo can surely benifit a lot to a web site in getting a better rankings then the competitors site.