A website that has categories and subcategories that lists websites according to the most suitable category so that ideally the websites are grouped with similar websites. They usually have submission forms for webmasters to submit theor own sites to be listed. They provide a backlink to your website. Normally the basic info you submit to them are Title, Description, Url, Your Name and email. There are large and small, free and paid, standard and heavily customised, general and niche, strict and lenient ones.
A Web Directory lists a variety of web resources and helpful information across many categories. Selected websites, organized by category.
I didn't understand did you mean what is a directory ? if so, then directory is index website that sorting things. Most directories don not include new information but only links to another website. one of the most famous directory is Dmos. You check the second website in my signature, it's a directory that based on esyndicat script (which I recommend) Update: In 30 seconds you got 3 different answers
A web directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links.
Read here. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:directory&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
A Directory is a list of companies - (usually profit making) eg: like the paper Yellow Pages, that lists either ALL or Special websites/companies. They are either B2b, B2c or both, but they differ from Search engines that use bots to collect the websites for indexing. Directories don't use bots to list websites. In other words directories are simply 'lists'. Some good, but many are worthless and selection of where to list your site is crucial to getting ROI.
I think the OP was enquiring about Web directories. I like this definition: a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) source: http://www.tfd.com/directory
A resource where you can find Links to different sites , Directories help you finding the relevant sites as all the links are categorized ! MB
A web directory is still a list of sites Syted, I don't see any difference between a paper directory and a web version. When a company such as Yellow Pages transfers to the web, all it's doing is transferring it's offline business info elsewhere. A directory is a directory.
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Not a very good definition yet Mike, it will be one day but at the moment it hasn't been covered well enough.
Yup, it's a good enough definition as any. But the purpose of a directory is to promote no? I've always believed in providing information, doing something that the big guys cannot do. Directories will have to improve greatly to just survive, it's a tough type of site to run because the trust from advertisers isn't there. Some undertaking I tell ya Phew.