Thank you for the information, it is very helpful. I like the idea of more site reviews and maybe there will be more SEO firms that will work with me, now. I currently work with 5 firms which give me bulk site reviews for submissions from time to time.

Glad to here your blog has made authority status as well.

Very recently, my blog SharatJaswal.com got sitelinks as well. So now i have two websites to actually compare. Again, as mentioned previously, i hardly noticed any change in traffic. Initially AllyDirectory’s traffic increased many a fold as people were talking about it all over the place. But now it’s back to normal at few thousand visitors a day. Similar case with my blog as well. So sitelinks give you no traffic.

But yes, one thing you will notice is that your statistics will show up more traffic at Health, Shopping, Alternative category from Google. The sitelinks seems to distribute the traffic to other categories of your directory. This sometime is good for directories as you may get related clients who are seeking site reviews in that particular category. Apart from these, the only major factor is that your directory now among those 1% of directories that really stand good in Google’s eyes and advertisers do understand how these directories will benefit them. So eventually you will get more site reviews and listings.

If i didn’t make sense anywhere in this comment, then excuse me. I am yet to have my morning coffee!

I decided that I needed to find out more of what authority status means and did a search and found this post. I understand more of what it means now, and time will tell what the benefits will be.

I know this post is over one year old, but just curious if you have anything else to add of what the benefits are and what type of changes it has made for you?

Congrats on Ally Directory, and how that your hard work pays off for you.

Thanks Syed. And Congrats on your previously owned directory (idk.in)’s sitelinks as well.
Thanks guys!