[Jerlene]

If you want quality links for your site, directories are one of the best ways of doing this. If you didn't know, link directories are websites that have a large collection of links organized by categories. People sometimes use directories instead of search engines to find a particular website.

There are thousands of directories on the internet that you could choose from. I just searched for "link directories" in Google and nearly one million results were returned.

Submissions to directories are edited by humans. Getting your site approved or rejected depends on the quality of your site and whether it's relevant to the directory you are submitting to. Accepted sites are usually seen as credible. Search engines also find your site more credible if it is linked to within a quality directory.

Try to submit to as many quality directories as you can. You'll get targetted traffic when people go to the category your site is in and click on your link. Your link popularity will increase so you will also increase your rank in search engines. Also, having your site listed in a quality directory will get your web pages indexed more often and quickly.

[Nightwatch]

Very well put. I might as well add that one needs to submit to quality directories belonging to the same niche as that of the website that is to be submitted. Inbound links coming from such theme-related quality directories will have greater value.