Report paid linking

I have been in touch with a lot of directory owners, free and paid.

Also blog network owners and many have lost PR and SERPs ranking.

I think it is simply from Googles new 'Report Paid Listings'

For those who report paid listings, DP is a gold mine for these rats.

Killing a persons business because Google says so is slimy.

I think the whole directories situation and blog network problems is as simple as that.

If you own a network hide the urls somehow or they will be next.

Interlinking paid directories have felt Googles 'big stick'

Free directories seem ok as they are mostly individual and not networked.

 

:O can ppl report paid listings???

omg.... r u saying ther is some kind of reward??

omg.... i gotta get in on this (jks LOLZ)

well I only have 1 paid directory and ATM its ranking extremely highly for a free web directory so hopefuly google wont see it as a paid one for a while.

I ahve a network of like 3 (yes count em) freee (yes freee ) directories. You said free directories mostly go unpunished.... will mine??? yes they have network links to each.

 

Read more here
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/

 

I think 3 in your network may get away with it and yes if they are free.

But some big paid directories have dozens all interlinked and owned by the same individuals.

I know some blog networks also got hit.

 

See some beautiful explanation from Rand Fishkin
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-mak...y-and-why-google-penalized-dozens-of-bad-ones

 

its not okay to pay other sites for traffic but its okay to pay google for it.

 

Isn't that the truth.

 

Yes it is, WTF is Google doing with links ???

 

I have tried a lot of directories some paid as well. So far there is no help in getting more traffic.

 

i totally agree with you but i think they are at the beginning of this punishment

 

Don't forget yahoo! has a paid directory as well....

 

Rand Fishkin also comments:
"if I were Matt Cutts, I'd just tell one of my quality control guys to go spend a few days trawling DP for directory domains"

 

many ppl are jelaous
so they are reporting others ... but once other will report them

 

This will be nasty fory link sellers.

 

you're right on that one