I have been on the Internet since long before Al Gore invented it, when it was an exciting place, full of information. In fact, I ran a computer BBS for more than a decade before the Internet became widely available, but I won’t take that path here because it would be too long of a…
In one way, search engines and web directories are kind of the same thing, but in the end they aren’t like one another at all. Both search engines and web directories are intended to help people find things on the Internet. They do so in very different ways, and one does not necessarily replace the…
Many people compare web directories to search engines, concluding that search engines are more efficient because they return far more results. However, they are very different kinds of sites. The chief difference between search engines and web directories is the mechanism of indexing used. Search engines are always indexing websites on the internet, performing their…
What is a Web Directory? Are They Still Useful? Before Google hit the online platforms and before SEO even existed, most users had quite a hard time finding the right websites. Hence, Internet gurus decided to create web directories in order to provide Internet users with a complete database of web pages that are placed…
Web Directory Digest is a project of Web Directory Reviews Org, which also operates the WDR Directory of Directories, WDR Directory of Directories of Directories, Web Directory Forum, and the SEO/Web Glossary. It is my hope that this publication will help to promote the web directory industry, to reintroduce the industry to those who were once users of…