Yellow Pages in the offline world has been into existence for many years. With the growth of the internet, Yellow Pages has moved from offline world to electronic world and has taken multiple shapes. One of such forms is online Directories which are basically a categorized collection of websites. Today, thousands of such directories exist and many of them are localized based on the content and the geography.
Since incoming links plays a critical role in a site's ranking, gaining links from these directories has become an important part of the SEO process. Many website owners have created their own directories as part of their site and use them to trade links with other sites. Dmoz, a human edited internet directory is considered the best directory and having a link in it significantly contributes to a web site's ranking. Listing in Dmoz is although difficult but free. However, many paid directories such as business.com exists today.
Like these directories, there exists many Search Engines including localized ones like Baidu, a Chinese Search Engine. Of all the Search Engines, Google is considered the best and most of the SEO activities are aligned to gain rankings in Google. Yahoo and MSN follow Google in terms of the search volume. Google drives around 65% of the total search traffic. Google, Yahoo and MSN combined represent majority of the search volume.
Below are some of the valuable Internet directories and Search engines:
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