I guess what I'm saying is what does it offer.
Not bein a computer/SEO/webmaster geek myself, that's a pretty good question.
I've always believed that if you have something really unique, interesting, and helpful to a web surfer, they'll eventually find it, and word will get around on it's own. Those are the kind of sites we're looking for, and that is our value.
For everybody else, they absolutely need the help of a paid professional to get them noticed, because their content is pretty run of the mill, cookie cutter type information that hundreds of other sites also have, and it becomes a stampede to see who can get listed in the first ten spots on a search. (their survival depends on it)
Those paid professionals know that, and greatly desire having their clientele listed in the Directory, to give themselves more credibility with their clients.
Kind of silly, when you think about it, thousands of sites battling to be in the first ten spots, and paying the SEOs through the nose to do it for them. How can that be realistic? Not everybody can be first in line.
In any case, that's not something we concern ourselves with in the ODP or this forum, as we have different goals, and that ain't one of em,
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