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Welcome to our Connecting Sites Directory! Whether you’re an experienced or new entrepreneur that hopes to drive traffic to
your website, you’ve probably heard over and over again that “Content is King”.
That is, you probably have it drilled in your head that having content, especially
relevant and keyword rich content, is not only important to your website but
also extremely important to drive targeted traffic to your website but also to
ensure that your visitors find the information that they seek while visiting your
site. In addition to having quality content, you may have also been told over
and over again that you should submit your websites to directories. But,
what you may not have been told is which type of directories are available for
your submission efforts. In this article, we’ll discuss human edited vs. computer
edited directories and the benefits of both.

First of all, human edited directories are those directories whose submissions are
reviewed and edited by a real live human being. That’s right, when you submit
your listings to a human edited directed, someone reviews each one of your
listings and determines if they are fit for publication. They review each listing
for quality and to determine whether the listing would be a good fit for their
readers. On the other hand, computer reviewed directories are not reviewed
by human beings at all. Instead, the directories algorithms review the
listings to determine if it is fit for publication. In most instances, the listing is
simply placed in the category it is placed irregardless of its actual relevance.
In contrast, with a human reviewed directory, a human being reviews and
edits each listing and places the listing in the right category according
to keyword density, quality, and listing relevancy.

Second, we’ll now discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both directories.

Human Reviewed Directories

Advantages
• Your listings are viewed by a real live human person with true verifiable criteria
that can be evaluated for quality and relevance.
• You tend to get higher quality website listings in human reviewed directories. In
addition, they are more likely to catch spam and other inappropriate listings.
• You end up with less spam and inappropriate listings since a human reviews and
approves each one.
• These directories tend to get better search engine favoritism (higher PR and
search engine rankings).
• People tend to value these types of human reviewed directories more favorable
and they tend to get more traffic.


Disadvantages
• The review process takes a bit longer because the human reviewer has to go
through many listing submissions and determine if the submitted listings
are appropriate for the directory.
• You end up with less approved submissions so you have fewer approved listings
in each directory.

Computer Reviewed Directories

Advantages
• The approval process is quite easy for site owners because the computer/script
does all the approving.
• The approval process can be fast and instantaneous.

Disadvantages
• Computers/scripts are not people and are not able to assess the quality of the
listings so many junk listings get through.
• These types of listings get less favoritism with the search engines and visitors
due to their lack of good quality content.

In conclusion, after evaluating these points, it is easy to see that if “content is
king” then human reviewed directories are “queen” and should be utilized if you’re
an entrepreneur that is serious about getting highly trafficked exposure to
your website. After all, nothing beats a good old fashion person when it comes
to judging listings for relevance and quality!



© Tatiana Velitchkov