Advantages and drawbacks of directories

[varun1182]

What are the advantages and drawbacks of directories over search engines??

[netgal06]

I guess the advantage to a directory is that the listing should be consistent. You can rely on the fact that it is listed within a category. Whereas with a search engine your listing is only as good as the effort you put in it to maintain a good ranking.

[backstage]

It looks to me that you are not certain on what the differences between search engines and web directories are.
So here they are:



Search engines have indices that are built up by robots or crawlers; whereas Web directories build up their indices through human editors.
Many search engines and directories contain both and are referred to as hybrids.
"Search engine" and "Web directory" are two different search services.

Hope this help

[humpty]

it highly depends on your visitors, for example, if your initial research was based on search engines, as in how many people are looking for your products by searching it online in search engines, hen it makes no sense to go for directories right?

know your visitors first, know what they want, know their shopping habit, know where they searc for stuffs they want, and you'll know which one you should be spending your money and efforts on