4 things in the directory world that bother me! (Link bait? nope!)

He's not alone. It's hard to tell what you're on about most of the time. You seem to believe that SEO is all about link building. I suggest you need to educate yourself a bit more.

I bet you're wrong. I also bet you just made it a lot easier for Google to find the links you're selling with this post. You're customers will love you for that.

 

Good. what i wanted to say was that , Web directories only are not part of link building campaigs. There are tons of methods which are used by SEO pros and SEO companies to get organic natural links for their clients which includes contexual blog posts, link baiting, etc. They all add to the link building campaigns. I hope things are clear now

 

Its not that difficult to spot paid links with algorithms. Take a hint (say small example) 10 Links pointing to exact same URL all with same anchor text, isnt this a sign that all the 10 links are paid ones. ?

 

10 links from different websites or same websites?

It is very difficult to detect I can tell you! I have some of my directories linking sitewide to my own directories if they consider this as a paid link then they would be losing more.


I bet the paid links can be detected only manually and not by any algorithim
Those who are saying that Google can detect paid links are the people in some sort of wonderland

detecting paid links by algorithms is similar to a man landing on SUN

How could they able to detect those paid links?When they index non existent pages and have 3 billion pages to search through! and a half completed pagerank updates!

It is simply foolish as anything

I have already said that they can detect paid links only manually and not by any other means.I reaffirm that I still sell links but I accept only links that are of quality!

 

While I may not be in your Top 50 Quality Paid Directory list, I have turned away more MFA sites AND refunded their review fee on MULTIPLE occasions. I still think my refund policy is way to lenient as it is a review fee and in my opinion should not be refunded but that not the way it's done right now. Your figure of 99% is way too high!

 

I know we are getting way off-topic but they can't even stop MFA sites which IMO if probably a bigger thorn in their side. Plus the 'witch hunt' for paid links will hurt the hand that feeds them.

 

Google isn't only about search and PPC anymore.
I mean sure it's a big share of their profits, but they diversified well.

 

What I mean is that MFA sites, in my opinion, are much more of a problem than paid links, hence they would want to stop that practice but have not had much success.

I think the 'report paid links program' is more about calming down some of the very vocal purists of the industry. If you look at the webmaster guidelines all SEO could be considered manipulating the search results and should be banned.

 

Like the OP, i saw this thread yesterday,....didnt read it!
saw it this morning,....didnt read it!
but now it was again up, ... so just had to peep in

I would agree, but to a limit, giving a heads up to someone that this guy might be trouble is good business ethics, but alas that just doesnt happen on DP,

all the threads dicussing this remind me of a serial i used to watch as a kid, Xena warrior princess! Scenes where a group of people were against a person and everyones screaming out....
he's a theif, he's a robberrer, burn him at the stake, torch him, nail him... blah blah blah!

G translation for that in DP [read language ]

He's a QBC, red rep him, report him to the mods, ban him .....! Duh!

If people were to spend so much time and deligence marketing their own site, they would be twice as rich, coz of twice as many backlinks!

on the same note, give him time to reply and perhaps reason or time to mend what was wrong, (if wrong)!

Controversial topic! Still need loads of rethink!.... perhaps the directory industry needs a revamp!

loads of people are up for it, "Change" being the keyword here....
may be i show you something tomorrow, or later in the day

Gimme a break,.... a better word would be Directory "Guru".

someone says Google (is a) God, i can understand, but directory's God !!!

Thats a freakin kick in the (my) teeth,
i wouldn't know what the 40 year old woman wants, ...
i wouldn't want her, thats for sure !

M.

 

Well if you are looking to give listings that provide a useful resource for your average information seeker, then got to think like them.

 

speaking as a 40+ woman they surf the net looking for ways to make extra money, to see whats up in the world etc,one way to look at it if your mother was on the net what would she like, as for me as a webmistress and a 40+ woman I like to see things that can help me with my businesses, ways to advertise, and to learn new things there are alot of wahms that are on the net and do pay to advertise there businesses

 

QBC is something a bunch of school bullies would use as name calling, most who do it are guilty of the same thing, what's the saying, best form of defence is attack.

IMO, these people have contributed to their pockets nothing more nothing less. Gimme some examples of 'valuable contributions' these lot have made. First name terms, do you know whether Jeff is Joleen, Rob is Lesley, etc, none of us know anyone, we're all anonymous. Butt kissing, you got that right. Ego city baby, Ego city.

No chance, bidding = Gambling

 

Does your typical web user own an online business?

 

no but they do look at ways to make extra money

 

Every second of my life I spend looking for how to make an extra penny, doesn't everyone?

 

Not really, i try to spend most of my life's time trying to learn new things even if it costs me few penny's. Cause life is short and there is so much around u to learn.

 

Q. being who is my average "average information seeker"
on my directory,....and on my blog! (most of the times, they are diffrent!)

My mom is the last person i would want on my site (read blog)
When she's surfing the net, she either hooked on eBay to see good stuff,
or always looking for new games to play, ,
(and i can say that for all her friends who are net savy.)


and :

I believe i couldnt post my last point out well,
my point being a technology blog would blog about technology,
a cookery blog would blog about.... well cooking,
and a directory blog would blog about directories!

i really cant put cooking lessons on my blog,
or perhaps a "how to lesson on glass painting" my blog for ....

im all for diversity, but .... out of the topic posts would make my blog more like a personal blog rather than a directory blog!

M.

 

bobby, why such animosity?

You know where to find me if you want to talk about what's on your mind
I'm always there for you if you need me, but you already know that.

Rob

 

animosity towards you?That's a joke, You were the person on the phpld forums that got me started a couple years ago.
I just used your name as an example, ut no hard feelings against you, hopefully you have none towards me.

 

IMHO, you got over-heated there.

Why do you care that when someone asks who is Chris Hoffman he is getting attacked? Why do you care? They don't PM you, they just post. For post count. This is a just a cheap post count getting method.

Don't you understand? All these ironic posts, all this stuff with "Congratulatins, submitted please approve, how dont you know who is he and blah blah" is just for POST COUNT.

And when they ask advices from "Directory Gods" they simply want to promote their site because they will include the link to the site asking "what's wrong with it, how can I improve". Again cheap promotion method.

Though, I can't deny that yes, most directories are not family-friendly, but directory-owners-friendly