Why webmasters now a day forgetting an effective way to get their websites out there are still working as an old timer by submitting their links to web directories? and yes its also free. what is the deal now with social bookmarking, blog and rss ? web directories doesnt work any more for search engines and bots? iam just curious
I think a lot of people ignore directory submissions because it does little to build PR, and people have an unnecessary obsession with PR. Other people may have overreacted to Google no longer recommending directory submissions on their Webmaster Guidelines. I still submit to directories as one of the first steps of a link building campaign. I don't expect those links to do a whole lot though.