Most people now understand the importance of being listed in high quality web directories. The Open Directory and Yahoo! are the two best known but there are many others worth considering.
A directory I particularly like is JoeAnt – www.joeant.com. I’m an editor there so have a good idea how it works and have added hundreds of sites over the past year or so.
You can request a review which costs a few dollars or you can become an editor and add sites for free. But in either case they have strict rules and high standards so poor sites will be refused and there are stringent guidelines dictating how to write meaningful titles and descriptions that avoid "keyword stuffing" and marketing hyperbole.
It won’t necessarily send you huge numbers of visitors but the links are picked up by the search engines so probably do you some good that way. It’s also quite enlightening to review your own sites using their rules. It really helps to see the essence of what you have created and where you have fallen short.
