Web Directories - Points to Remember

As I already said, DMOZ particularly feeds into a huge number of other smaller directories, so going around the web trying to find as many directories as you can to submit to will be a waste of time because theoretically you will already have indirectly submitted to most of them. What you can do is look for niche directories that describe your site or service very well. If these do not take information from DMOZ, think about submitting to these smaller directories also. Don't waste money paying to be listed though; money can be better used in pay-per-click or paid submission listings than on paid directory submission.
One thing that webmasters have been noticing recently is that when searching for particular things, sites like Wikipedia will often be higher in the SERPs that directory sites. You can make use of the popularity of the wiki by adding an article describing your site or service and providing a link back to your site. Like submitting directories, this will provide spiders and crawlers with another route to your site, reinforcing link popularity. Because of the popularity of Wikipedia, you may also get increased traffic to your site. Again, try not to make it look like an advert; an honest description will go much further in the eyes of anyone viewing the wiki article.
So as you can see, the small amount of time and money that you will spend submitting your site to be added to directories, and the fact that for non-commercial sites this is free, make directory listings perhaps the easiest form of increasing link popularity. It's a bit like link trading, without the hassle of negotiating with other webmasters or worrying about adding links to other sites in return.
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