A search engine indexes website by sending "spiders" or "crawlers" to your website to review its coding and content for relevancy. These computer programs read the coding of the website and determine its ranking according to how the coding, content, and links match up with their algorithm.
Directories, on the other hand, have real people review your website for relevancy. They look at the overall site from a human point of view. They still have algorithms to help rank a site, but the human factor is also involved. In addition, you must submit your website to a particular category set up within the directory.
Understanding the most appropriate category and what the editors will accept or reject for titles and descriptions is very important. Once you are entered into a directory category with a title and description, it is very difficult to ever get it changed. Make sure it's done correctly the first time!
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