These days many webmasters and wannabe web marketers - specially inexperienced ones are confused about the usefulness web directories! The other day I was browsing on a popular webmaster forums ( digitalpoint forums ) and found a so-called web marketer opening a thread regarding how he submitted a client’s site to one web directory and […]
As far as I remember Google took unprecedented action against web directories by penalizing them en mass on first October - 2007. It was at the height of Google’s war against paid links that passed ranking juice to other sites.
It is to be noted that human edited web directories existed even before Google came into […]
As the title of the post says – “Is the directory industry dead?” Many webmasters think so. But I don’t go along with them – not because I am a directory owner – but because their views are simply immature. Going around webmasters forums and finding discussions on how web directories are root cause of […]
The first question that comes to mind after reading the title is -
“Does Google still consider directory links as quality?”
I would like to say that - “YES” , it still does if the directory is old, its PR is not inflated by way of buying links, it has appropriate category for your niche, it has […]
Of late, Google has been cracking down on paid links - i.e. penalizing sites selling or buying links. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s anti-web spam team says, due to buying and selling of links based on Page Rank , webmasters and SEO/SEM experts are manipulating search results by putting low quality sites on top of […]