Good website directories allow you to write your preferred anchor text or link title that best describes what your website is all about. This link title is an important factor in establishing where your website will be categorized by search engines for particular keywords, so you should be thorough in deciding for this as this will be an important factor in your web traffic generation.
A good website directory is human edited. Meaning, it cannot be approved immediately as it is subjected to moderation or review by the directory experts. If your link title does not qualify to their standards, it will immediately be rejected.
A lot of website directories that used to be actively moderated have pretty much laid-low nowadays. You will be able to observe this by checking out the approved links statistics on that directory. If the number of links pending for approval is significantly higher than those that have been approved, then there’s no use submitting your links to these sites.