Human edited web directories are import because they are much more exact directory and weed out sites that are junk and have no substance. Placing your link on web directories gives website owners an advantage of getting higher search engine. The higher the search engine ranking is equal to getting more traffic to your website, it is much more than that, the higher your page rank more and more people want to trade links, take your content which gives you more links and more traffic. A good PR gives better position in Googles search engine results. By submitting websites to directories will increase traffic, profitability and search engine page rank.
Webmasters who use directories for increasing link popularity should check out the directory first to see if the directory is SE friendly or not as, only a SE friendly directory will give value for their links. When individuals go to a web directory they are looking for some specific information. Perhaps one of the most highly sought after web directories are the web directory by Yahoo and Dmoz.
Many webmasters use something called reciprocal linking, which is a technique where a webmaster places the other webmaster...