We usually learn new things that we stumble upon from a personal, and sometimes not so pleasant experience. Sometimes we get to work with things or processes that we don't understand. I guess there are a lot of people that use the computer but have no idea how it actually works. All you have to do is read more. And since you got this far reading this article, here is what we are sharing with everybody: what is, and how a website directory, also called a link directory, works.



You get to browse the Internet everyday without knowing that all the titles or names or numbers highlighted or underlined that allow you to jump from page to page, from site to site, are links that represent websites. Each and every one of those ?pathways? is grouped with similar websites in a website directory.

You shouldn't mistake a link directory for a search engine. A search engine displays a certain number of search results grouped on several pages, based on the words you type, also called keywords ? words that describe that certain thing you look for on the Internet.

A web directory displays groups of websites usually grouping them by categories and subcategories. This helpful way of organizing sites is made on the type of the web site as a whole. It is not about placing together certain pages that resemble as subject, or by grouping keywords. It is about finding similar websites with the ones you are interested in without having to lose precious time being lost in thousands of listings, just like when you use a search engine.

You might find a link directory not only on certain pages that sort the websites. There are websites that have special space reserved for a page that holds a website directory, allowing you to connect with similar sites. This is a popular method to bring closer to the users websites that collaborate all the time. You might not encounter this kind of facilities between rival websites.

A website directory has a wide range of listing groupings. The listings are: free submission listing ? there is no fee involved in placing your website on a link directory; reciprocal link ? the website listed on that certain website directory has to include a link that will take the user back to the main directory; paid submissions ? there is a fee charged for listing the link to that certain website; no follow ? the websites listed can not be traced by the search engines; featured listings ? the website has a preferential position on the link directory; bid for position ? the position on the web directory is established after a bid; affiliate links ? the link directory gets paid a commission if the users log on to their website using the link listed on that page.

If you are a beginner as far as the Internet is concerned, or you just use the web without questioning or wondering how it works, I hope this article here opens your mind for future understanding of what the virtual world, or business ground that the World Wide Web represents nowadays.