Hope this is the right place for this question. I would appreciate the forums thoughts concerning having a directory within a website.It would be for site-related links. Good practice, or not? thanks
It depends on the type of site. If it is an e-commerce website, you really don't want to send (potential) customers to another website.
I have a directory in one of my sites, a very big directory at that. I think it has like 800,000 listings or so. It works nice and brings in a bunch of extra traffic. I'm sure none of it converts because it brings traffic form searches like: "Cabinet Company" 3349 long run road, 88892 But it's traffic none the less. =\