The Importance Of Link Directories

By Author: Jamie Hanson
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For all those who are involved in the world of web and are interested in surfing the net, remembering all of the important links or site names or if you want to access a specific set of websites for research purpose, can get very complicated. For Net users with such nature, a link directory is a hidden treasure from the world of web to make your life simpler. A link directory is an online version of a telephone directory which is in a sorted order and it has a search engine so that you get your requirements fulfilled without any delay, it stores a huge collection of web links which cater to every user's need that too just a click away. The link directory stores the web links in relevance to the site's theme. It gives the user the option to view a specific category according to his/her interest. It has many features, which are effective enough to interact with other users and get information about various other websites, which can be helpful anytime for the user such as:

1) Article submission
2) Latest links
3) Advanced search
4) Latest Articles
5) Submit link
6) Back link

Although ...
... most of the features are available without registration on the site, but for availing certain features user has to register on the link directory.

Article submission is a feature that is used to make the site interesting and give the user chance to make his contribution for the directory and improve the knowledge base for other user is related to current affairs and new emerging technologies. This also gives the developers of the directory a platform to make the site better.

Latest links is a feature which tells the hottest website or link that is currently being accessed with a small review of the link for the other user to have an idea about the site.

Advanced search this feature is used to make your search customized and tailored according to your needs.

Latest articles the articles that are mostly viewed by the users are available in this section and are sorted as per the number of views.

Submit links if a user liked a specific link on the net and would like that link to be added to the link directory he can use this feature to add this to the database of the site so that other users can access the link and benefit from it. The link directory has the facility to make sure that you can check, if your link was added to the database or not, for this they have a separate category with sections named added links pending links etc.

Back link is provided on other sites to go to the link directory directly and similarly other sites have this feature to make sure the link directory site has back link for other sites as well this also help in generating revenue for the site.
I'm from Cheshire UK, and I run Any1in Link Directory as well as CraigsList@Squidoo