Well, now a days for many webmasters, Web directory is the best way to promote their sites. I recently camne across such great web directory. Ally Web directory is a mini search engine that lists many great websites for a paid price. It is a very strong directory and certainly one of the best directories out there 
No doubt it provids a very strong backlinks to the listed sites. It helps in SERPS, Pageranks, strength and popularity. Also being a well known business directory, the directory really is great for advertising purposes if you have a business website. 
If you are not a webmater, you probably won’t understand what i am talking about. In that case, you should only know that Ally Directory is one os the strong mini search engines on the internet world. A big search engine is what you have in google! The DMOZ (also known as the Open Directory Project), The Google Directory, The Yahoo! Directory are some of the very useful directories for link research.
BTW, Do checkout Ally Web Directory.
Thanks for the info on Ally Directory.
People should know more about the directories. They are as good as search engines and we are working hard on AllyDirectory to provide best source for information, other sites on web and entertainment for general public. Hope you all will pay a visit there.
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~Admin
Ally Directory