How do you made your directory look good in google's eyes?

Please shoot me your kind replies , always hungry to learn more

 

if your site has good SEO, google love it

 

Making sure your page speed is at least 90+ with minimal errors. Also having unique content that is not duplicate from others will have good side affects. Back linking to high PR sites, greater than PR4+ of course.

 

Content. Start with the best intentions and follow through with them. Don't allow keyword stuffing in the titles or descriptions. Ensure the descriptions are well written, and opt for unique where possible.

If you get a lot of submissions from the one place, which all seem appropriate. Select *some* and not all.

Directories aren't considered good because they list everyone. They are considered good because they hand-pick good websites to showcase, and turn away many more. Especially if those sites are similar.

Don't ever list a whole bunch of web directories in your own directory. If you do that, you dilute its effectiveness from the outset. In fact it almost turns you into a linkfarm instantly. Anyone that does have a lot of directories in their own directory, I would suggest that you be even more strict on them than any other site you have listed. They shouldn't be allowed to have titles like "free web directory" or "general directory" or "paid directory" etc. They should be unique, not 1-of-20 or more that all look and act the same. If you add directories, ensure they have a purpose beyond building links.

Now. Go forth and prosper!

 

Great ,

Why not ?
what about the anchors and links i get from other websites , is it better to get all the link to my index?
or ?

Thanks in advance

 

Penguin was all about too many links with the same link text going to the same site. They were particularly harsh on sites linking with keyword phrases that did not match the site name.

IMHO, a directory full of titles like "free directory", "flowers from India" and "discount [anything]" shows the owner does not understand the difference between a link farm and a directory. Stick to the names of the sites and you shouldn't have any issues...with Penguin anyway.

 

Before you approve a submission you must ensure that the contents of description are unique. Regular maintenance of a directory is very essential and of-course maintain a limited number of directories so that you can focus on its improvement.

 

Very good advice.

 

In addition from others comments always use the correct business or service title not anchor text titles. Google is coming down hard on long anchor text links and the places that host them.

 

Well as per my opinion with unique and fresh description, you can do. Rather then using old description day by day. Google searches something new and fresh content on every site, because content is the king.

 

Try to force your users to write more content with added links. Focus on some niche and become an expert in it. With this solution, your directory can be made more attractive. Links with content added uniqueness is the key to success.

 

Agree, also use unique script/customized script for the directory to get some relief from the spammers.

 

Great info here, special thanks to Silencer. This is my idea although I have not put it to the test I have read alot that links in your text linking to other pages of your website are very good for SEO so maybe having articles on a web directory by members linking to their listings would be a good idea as well.

 

Actually the latest news from Google is article directories are in big trouble.
See This Video

 

I watched the video and it referred to article banks not all article directories. It sounds like it would affect article directories the same as panda and penguin affected web directories, web directories that have unique content were fine in that update, article directories that get there articles from article banks or post poorly written articles would be affected, so as long as you have good quality content and dont link to spam type sites most should be fine

 

Very few article directories I've looked at lately are not filled to the brim with garbage generated for building links.

 

As per usual Matt didn't really answer the question posed at the start of the video. He said they "try" to give examples. Every example I've ever seen him give of bad links involves "casino" or "pharm" links. Since I've seen many sites with very obvious chunks of paid links, many of which are casino/pharm links, I don't believe Google is very efficient at detecting paid links. They also seem to be exceptionally slow/bad at penalising those very very obvious sites...

What's obvious?
It shouldn't be hard to work out that a PR8 site, whose own pagerank is manipulated, is selling paid links when:
- It has 4 separate blocks of links in different locations on the site all under the same word ADVERTISEMENT in massive quantities.
- none of the outbound links relate to the site
- almost all of them contain blackjack or casino in the URL and in the anchor

That's the obvious stuff and Google can't detect it.

I believe article directories would be very easy to detect. It's duplicate content spun however many hundreds of times, so it *should* be easy to detect, but Google's detection algorithm is extremely weak. I've seen hundreds and hundreds of websites getting away with very very obvious paid linking. So obvious that it is like a bank robber walking past the security guards (Google) into a bank with a large sack with a $ sign on it, a pistol in his hand and a balaclava on his head, and the security guards wishing him a good morning totally oblivious to his obvious intentions...

I've seen scores of websites with hidden/hacked links that Google has absolutely no idea about.

So, who knows what they actually detect? Do they just talk and hope that the FUD gets rid of most of the problem?

 

Agree with silencer, Only directories which follow editorial standard are going to survive, others should listen to google and discuss

 

One sentence: I didn't make my directory for Google. I made it for people browsing it.

 

It is quite difficult t make a directory to love by google ))) ... I say abot my own experience!