I have been trying to find some directories to add my sites into and stumbled upon this network of directories, mainly with high PR and apparently they seem to have same sort of backlinks and most likely owned by sam person or company. I am wondering, whether its a good idea to submit into such directories or a recipe to get your sites flagged for some kind of spam. http://bulksubmissions.com I have a feeling, these are the type of directories, which spend money and buy links from anywhere and every where, not only that but they don't hesitate to hack high pr sites and hide their links in pages, i feel such practice, which shall eventually get on radar and get those sites some sort of penalty, will also hurt the over all directory business.
This is a dilemma I have considered many times. While you can assign responsibility to the person who bought the pagerank, there is also blame that can be assigned to google for allowing this to happen. Up until recently, google adwords even allowed people to advertise they were selling pagerank (basically). I think google is taking some steps to improve the situation. However, my conclusion is this is something that takes place whether you like it or not. Typically, you are dealing with people who are no strangers to taking risks or pushing the ethical envelope. Each person has to decide what they feel is best. I have always been a proponent of building a site people love that follows quality guidelines. Then over time your site or directory will make money. There are lots of people who make hundreds or thousands per month and follow a high standard. On the other hand, there are some that buy themselves a pagerank 7 or 8 site and are able to make thousands each month. This is usually short lived, and there is reason to believe google will penalize the site, and even make some decisions regarding how well the trust the individual moving forward. I will never choose this course, but I can understand why some would. I prefer to know that my success will be more continuous over time.
Nicely put, but can you imagine how much of money those directories making? its a list of 2 dozen directories with a lot of PR and if you go check the number of latest urls added each day in those directories, you will be amazed and will get a rough idea on how much they are making every day. And now since the PR has recently been updated, their directories will retain the current PR for several months and theyw ill easily make several hundred thousand dollars by then, when once google realises and punishes them, they will stand an army of similar sites again, its more like rinse and repeat. I also found another network of directories, Dirbull.com Gdirectory.org Directorydophin.com and almost 7 similar directories with Pr 6 to 7, i putfew checks and all of them are owned by same guy/company and all of them had back links from HIGH PR .org and some chinese sites and all of those links are hidden. Its a sad story, no wonder why Google punished all directories and i can see it happening again. I want to submit my site to some directories, but honestly i cant do back link, whois etc etc check on all of them before i place my link into them.
At first this process looks efficient and time saving but Google has been good at identifying networks of related sites for many years. In this case the sites made up of dropped domains. The sites will soon have a bunch of identical listings. If you are going to spend hundreds of dollars on submissions you should take the extra hour to submit original info to quality directories.
Definitely on this last update some directories that have something that could be construed as manipulative saw their pagerank drop. I know of at least one that is a 7 and stayed a 7. It's just a fact of life. There are also lots of people who spend a lot of money on links hoping to duplicate what these people are doing. And often they don't get the pagerank they want. They risk a lot of money and then lose it. A well known situation is phpBB. They used to be a pagerank 9. Now they are a 4. So to be clear, this is not something limited to the directory industry.
dont submit on directories with domain names like genocidefactor[dot]com and there are many other like this on your list they are running on dead sites, they are like zombies and sooner or later they will get penalized
This isn't unique to directories. One of my informational sites has a competitor with tons of hacked and hidden links on high PR sites, many of which are also Chinese.
Indeed its not, but with the invention of Phpld, which i suppose is yours, people downloaded it in bulks and then abused it to a point where google had to step up and penalize all these directories, it took years for penalties to go away and now people have again started abusing it and yea i agree, its not limite dto just web directories.
to determine which directory is worthy to submit is surely not easy to judge. It takes time to see. Some directories in that network are quality directories that the owner bought. Don't make judgement so soon. But IMO, bulk submission for a network is not a good idea and in the long run, there are duplicate content worries.
High Page rank is not the only element for quality directory. Not less important are traffic and SERPs. For example one of the PR7 directories on that list ranks #25 for the term "business directory" which is pretty good given there are 504,000,000 results for that term. My own directory that is "only" PR5 ranks #15 for the same key term. I guess in my case, I have different priorities although the ultimate goal maybe the same.
I believe that nowadays pagerank is overrated. I have a starting website, still at pagerank 0 (yes zero) and for some keyworks it makes it nevertheless into the top 5 in Google. Pagerank was all important 10 years ago, however.