 For many year, web directories were a popular way of promote websites, not because of traffic a directory drives to a website, but because back link to a website from a directory boosts a site's search engine ranking, increasing the site's position on search engine result pages.
This easy way to gain higher search engine ranking through the back door made hundreds if not thousands of web directories spring up over a very short space of time. Search engines soon found out about this booming industry and factor and anti web directory algorithm into their ranking, the most popular web directories on the net lost their ranking and the industry shrank to less than half of what it was at its peak.
Search engines are not against web directory per see, they were just again directories that were nothing more than a link farm; listing hundreds of websites with no particular value or merit to the listing other than the fact that the site owner paid to have his or her site listed in the directory.
LBS believes web directories and other site that catalogue Internet resources, whether its website, restaurant, information about a town or a city make vital contribution to making the Internet a great source of informal, which was exactly what the founding fathers of wold wide web meant it to be. For this reason we have created an application that make running a review or cataloguing services easy, the review could be website review or any other resources you have expertise, the application is called LBS Portal. |
