What Value Can New Directories Provide?

[maldives]

Link building is an essential part of SEO. Directories contribute to it. Every directory is a small directory when it is new. It takes time to get it better! But, of course a link is worth something!

[bookworm-seo]

i disagree - many of these links may have pagerank, but i think that pagerank operates isolation from trustrank, and so plenty of thos pr0-4 directories' links are useless, because they don't really screen anyone. give them their reciprocal link and you're in. The attitude is like: Who cares if they're relevant or not?
And anyways, a lot of the small directories' owners give up before getting anywhere. Which is because they launch their directory before asking: what value can I provide?? When they can't differentiate themselves, the directory turns adds another generic webmaster blog that will die in 3-6 months.

I repeat my question: what value can new directories provide? How can they be different? (Disclaimer: I'm not looking to start a directory. I'm just curious about the whole phenomenon of crap directories and why it exists.)

[rankland]

Originally Posted by bookworm-seo

i disagree - many of these links may have pagerank, but i think that pagerank operates isolation from trustrank, and so plenty of thos pr0-4 directories' links are useless, because they don't really screen anyone. give them their reciprocal link and you're in. The attitude is like: Who cares if they're relevant or not?
And anyways, a lot of the small directories' owners give up before getting anywhere. Which is because they launch their directory before asking: what value can I provide?? When they can't differentiate themselves, the directory turns adds another generic webmaster blog that will die in 3-6 months.

I repeat my question: what value can new directories provide? How can they be different? (Disclaimer: I'm not looking to start a directory. I'm just curious about the whole phenomenon of crap directories and why it exists.)

Im a pr 4/1-3 and my serps are out of control and related:http://www.rankland.com put me up with the big boys....as far as are concerned maybe im making a mistake by submitting to a directory as far as far as my content is concered why would you want that link? the difference i believe from a good site, to a bad one. would be the web master actually making sure his site stayed clean instead of taking the easy way out, and poluting his page with un-relative information to his site.
Its not the pr. of the page its power of site you should concentrate on.When you get the content correct the pr. is not very far behind.Im a paid site and i make plenty, and if you dont believe me look at alexa .....(late)