Whois & Analysis for diyodp.com

A web directory or link directory is an online list or catalog of websites.

That is, it is a directory on the World Wide Web of (all or part of) the World Wide Web.

Historically, directories typically listed entries on people or businesses, and their contact information; such directories are still in use today.

A web directory includes entries about websites, including links to those websites, organized into categories and subcategories.

Besides a link, each entry may include the title of the website, and a description of its contents.

In most web directories, the entries are about whole websites, rather than individual pages within them (called "deep links").

Websites are often limited to inclusion in only a few categories.

Boy building a model airplane, Texas, 1942 (photograph by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration).

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.

A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), although many people use the two terms interchangeably.

URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (HTTP) but are also used for file transfer (FTP), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.

DMOZ (from directory.mozilla.org, an earlier domain name, stylized in lowercase in its logo) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links.

The site and community who maintained it were also known as the Open Directory Project (ODP).

It was owned by AOL (now a part of Verizon Media) but constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines.

SEO targets unpaid traffic (known as "natural" or "organic" results) rather than direct traffic or paid traffic.

Unpaid traffic may originate from different kinds of searches, including image search, video search, academic search, news search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.