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Online directories are directories in the worldwide web that specializes in linking the other web sites and categorizing those links just like yellow pages but in an online version. Online directories provide up to date news and a great source for particular product or services. With its popularity increasingly getting higher, more and more specific web directory sites are available in the internet to provide listings for searching needs of the public.

If you want to search a business name or listing in Ontario, you use the search engine Ontario Business Directory and all the business listings under different categories will be offered to you with just one click of a button using your computer. There are three categories of online directories; first is a simple directory or free for all type. This may require certain software verification before they add your site to the listings to ensure that your site exists and not a duplicate. Monitored directory is based on human monitoring or human decision in particular decisions regarding the lists of sites. There are guidelines and rules to follow in submitting to online directories so be careful to follow them. The last is edited directory where you have limits and requirements in submitting your listings to their directory. They publish edited and rewritten description for your site.