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Directory Owners - You must read this - Why directories are being penalised in Google

Discussion in 'Directories' started by Londonseoconsultants, Feb 19, 2009.

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    Are you a directory owner.

    Recently there have been many directories banished into supplemental results - also many directories have simply vanished because the owners have given up.

    The main reason for this is because of repeat content

    Many webmasters submit their link using the same description - and when a page is full of these repeat descriptions then its full of non unique content - therefore its put into supplemental results in google - meaning no search engine traffic for that directory. the directories which are surviving well are those human edited directories which ask for unique descriptions and/or don't approve submissions using a non unique description.

    If you own a directory then you should go through all your links and if any of them use a description that can be found somewhere else on the net you have to remove their listing or rewrite it to make it unique - or email the link owner and ask them to provide a unique description - this will ensure your site contains only unique content.
     
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    stoner3221 Notable Member

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    I think your beating your drums a little loud calling it a main reason.
     
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  3. Londonseoconsultants

    Londonseoconsultants Guest

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    well all those directories that are human edited are having no problems at all - as they dont approve repeat descriptions
     
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    xc06 Notable Member

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    #4
    that's only one of the reason, maybe a very important reason, duplicate description and empty categories, etc.
     
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    swedal Notable Member

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    I would say that you're about a year and a half late on this breaking news. Realized this was one part of the puzzle a long time ago.
     
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    LakeCountry Well-Known Member

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    I agree you should try to be original however, it seems to me as hard as you try your descriptions will probably never be 100% unique. Suppose someone with a Blue Widget website submits to thousands of directories. It would be damn near impossible to write something not already written by someone somewhere....just how many ways are there to describe a blue widget site.
     
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  7. Londonseoconsultants

    Londonseoconsultants Guest

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    yes, its not such big a deal if it just appears on a few pages, - but these descriptions are appearing on hundreds of pages.
     
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    kanwarjot Notable Member

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    I think this can be one of the reasons.Other reason might be the spam links or inactive or expired links which fill the whole directory.
     
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    Mr.Submit Active Member

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    I think the main reason of being penalizing is recent purpose of directories itself: helping to manipulate the SERP. This is against Google TOS.
     
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    phpwnes Peon

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    also google sees them as link farms
     
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    xc06 Notable Member

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    your statement can't expalin why only some directories got penalized.
     
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    marki8 Well-Known Member

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    #12
    that's true.. i agree with @Londonseoconsultant
     
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  13. Londonseoconsultants

    Londonseoconsultants Guest

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    directory owners need quality control,
     
    Londonseoconsultants, Feb 20, 2009 IP
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    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #14
    This is just a small factor in many trashy directories. There's a lot more to take care of, but the good owners will be re-writing their descriptions.
     
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    #15
    unfortunately it isnt true
    it should be but google obviously hasnt done anything about it yet
    I think your breaking update is more to do with the services you are offering than why directories are truely being penalised
    go look at a lot of the directories still retaining PR and traffic with indexes full of duplicated descriptions
     
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    pipes Prominent Member

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    Londonseoconsultants, is this so that you dont have to write unique descriptions for the directory submission service that you offer? Nice try.

    Yet again another foolish thread of heres why its happening, lol
     
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    Obelia Notable Member

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    This is a case of preaching to the converted. Directory forum regulars on DP already know about the potential problems of duplicate content.
     
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    Yes, their home pages might have a pr 4 or 5 etc, but the majority of the internal pages the ones with the listings on are grey barred
     
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    Londonseoconsultants Guest

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    ???? No I do write unique descriptions for the sites I submit, and it takes ages, I would never submit a site to directories using the same description - its a waste of time
     
    Londonseoconsultants, Feb 20, 2009 IP
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    pipes Prominent Member

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    I very much doubt that you do that, even with your prices it would drive a submitter insane.

    Yeah im pretty confident your not submitting a unique description to each directory, theres only so many ways you can write and rewrite something.
     
    pipes, Feb 20, 2009 IP