Google Drops Bomb on Directory Industry
It has been the 3rd day now since all this fuzz started of some called A Glitch, while others called it A Penalty but whatever it is Google sure did clean house recently most of it coming from the directory industry and the long thread of battles at Digital Point.
Why ?
Exactly no one knows for sure at the moment as even the speaker for Google, Matt Cutts have not announced anything specific. All are speculations and assumptions right at the moment.
Is it Good or Bad ?
For the whole industry honestly it is a bad thing that is going on. There are sites that got affected which are good ones but there are no remorse for the bad apples that rot the whole industry. A perfect example for this is a PR6 Directory that has a bulging 5000 categories and sub categories that has no listings. It is primarily aimed at gaining strength without offering anything just passing Page Rank. A proclaimed Family Friendly with Gambling Links, Human Edited with 80% of the links as poor sites without valid constraints. So what does it offer actually ? Nothing in particular and it is intended to just rank and be beautiful to the eyes of webmasters not the end users.
You can argue with me anytime but its not really in the web directory definition. Then follows the rest of the other directories that boast of the same thing. Pathetic indeed and imagine these people spends most of the time in forums arguing or spamming to get the attention for their submission.
Now tell me if they don’t openly target buy/selling links in that thread. And if they get hit with a club they cry FOUL. Isn’t that the most moronic idea of the century ? Now call me one SOB if you can as that thread is just lame and the people involve in there are just hooking up their own herpes.
Faith is a Very Good Thing I believe in that personally. How would faith help you if you don’t even help yourself or help yourself with the deception again and again. Manipulating the SERPS and Site Indexing, Buying Links in High PR Irrelevant Sites, Outsmarting Google with their techniques and on and on. Don’t go overboard and get ahead of the pack while kicking the people around you “BULLIES”.
This would never stop and they will look for ways and find to deceive the search engines again. Then they would cry, lament and shout that justice was not there. Openly they would say that they don’t sell links. Dude even a truckload of Holy Water would have no effect if you keep saying that.
Bidding Directories - Whatever they say in my book that is Gambling pure and simple.
So Where Are These Sites That Have Been Bombed By Google ?
Alive Web Directory - Former Authority Website
Uncover The Net - Former Authority Website
Aviva Web Directory
Directory Dumps
eWebPages Web Directory
Dirspace Directory
MingleOn Web Directory
FreeWebIndex
Big Web Links
Links Factory
Eonte Web Directory
Forplex Business Directory
Elegant Directory
Biz-Dir Business Directory
There are more which I have not yet looked at. Meanwhile these directories are not ranking for their own names and will look for more. Its only day 3 but we have yet to see what is there to happen in the coming days.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:25 am
G is right on whatever they did to bring in better search results to end users and protect its existance and its G’s right to do so. You are right on most of the points.