Business directories are one of the important sources for registering your business. Depending on the nature of your business, the link of your website can be submitted to the right categories of business on the thousands of the free directories at the global or the local levels.
These submissions are of obvious benefit to the SEO process as well, since it:
#Creates the back-links which are valued highly by search engines.
#Takes time to get to get approvals but, once approval is received, it is a permanent inbound link to the site.
#Drive high traffic since these are used by people to find the businesses matching their requirements
#Local targeting of the niche segment markets in the different geographical and linguistic regions of the world.
#Anchor text as titles are allowed by the directories which makes the search engines to index the site faster.