Are web hosting directories a good place to submit the url to a web hosting business website? What is the benefit of submitting a link? Is it solely for Search Engine and backlink purposes?
It also gets you backlinks which improves google ranking, although the top hosts under a google of "web host" have about 1.2k backlinks, so it's a long long way to go, plus all the other factors...
I have heard people say it's helpful and others say it's a complete waste of time so there is definitely two schools of thought there. Personally, I figure it certainly couldn't hurt to submit to directories. If you get even one new customer out of it, then it was worth the time. Even a trickle of traffic becomes a flood if it's repeated enough times.