I am in a time crunch writing this so I hope it makes sense.
I read somewhere that I can't remember now and it basically went like this.
It is a great thing to have your site associated with other high quality sites. In the case of a directory that does not neccessarily mean they need to link to you imo. You can link to high quality resources. I am sure that inbound links are better though.
Also from the perspecitive of a site that submits for a listing it is appealing that your site listed with high quality authority resource in your niche. It creates an association with those other high quality resources.
More listings also creates more ways you can show up in search results and create traffic. I get traffic off some details pages I would have never thought possible but it is there.
From a visitor standpoint it is pretty simple - why would they visit your site if there is nothing to see when they get there?
There are too many reasons that directories should manually add listings to their sites and I have never heard a single good reason not to.
As far as no follow - there is no way I would no follow a resource I thought had enough quality to manually add it. |