What is the point of having a Directory?

[roozbeh007]

why should anyone start a directory website? I just don't get it. nobody use them.

 

[pfgannon]

Free links for your own sites, a few extra bux here and there.

 

[stoxup]

why should anyone start a directory website? I just don't get it. nobody use them.

I think it depends on what niche the directory is in. Hotscripts is a directory and tons of people use it.

 

[wickedDUDE]

the only reason i would start one is for backlinks

 

[roozbeh007]

backlinks for what? your directory?

 

[pfgannon]

No, for your own sites.

 

[roozbeh007]

so you are going to fill up the directory with back links to your own sites?

 

[amnezia]

so you are going to fill up the directory with back links to your own sites?

yeah you just cloak the reciprocols

 

[Jon12345]

What do you mean by cloak the reciprocals?

 

[wickedDUDE]

so you are going to fill up the directory with back links to your own sites?

i would simply start a directory on my own site... this way i'd have backlinks to it.