As a webmaster, use web directories to improve your search engine ranking and bring in more traffic by at least 2 ways: directly from the web directories and from search engines. Both ways are improved by web directories, that should be highly used by every webmaster, especially that most of them are free or extremely cheap.

Directories are one of the easiest way to get links for your website to increase it’s strength and ranking in the search engines. Their advantage is that they’re very cheap or even free and you get quite related links, by putting it in the right category, with a description and on the same page with other websites with description related to yours.

link-exchange-network.com is a paid general web directory, with very low prices and high quality.

101-seo-resources.com is a seo directory, especially for seo blogs, forums and websites, with Pagerank 5 and extremely low prices.