Alive Directory Banned by Google ?

I love how people think they have the right to say that Alive Directory's prices are unacceptable....they have the right to charge whatever the hell they like

 

Ya you are right they have the right to charge whatever they like , same like that we also have right to say that this is unacceptable.

Isn't it ??

 

Far from it, I think what they did was way out of order, and for the record I have absolutely NO affiliateship with them whatsoever, in fact I don't even know who owns it.

I'm certainly not frustrated, nor am I 'your dear'.

 

and google hates this kind of thing going on ....hehe..but still they pay well right ??

 

What part of his not selling PR links at all don't you understand? Do you NOT understand that alive has PR of 0?

and his not selling freaking links, and do you have any proof to back up your statement?

Why isn't it unacceptable? because his directory is better then yours? because he makes more money they you? because he does obviously everything better then you?

seriously every single one of you who saw his prices are too high or that his selling PR links grow up and grow some.

 

oh...shit......

 

They not banned but got slapped.. site:http://www.alivedirectory.com

 

(this is just my opinion, and I may very well be highly incorrect, but I read threw the whole 5 pages, so I'll shine some light on this)

basically the owner tried to claim he was making a directory that was useful and wasn't about PR, when in fact he was selling PR all the way. He bought tons of links on crappy websites and on many good sites too. he spent at least $xx,xxx-$xxx,xxx on marketing it, but Google penalized them because you can't buy Pr. PR is a measure of the importance of a page. How important is a site if it just buys links

Most directories are pointless and have no importance. Look at yahoo directory, it has millions of categories, compared to alive which has 100 or so. You see what i'm getting at, how can it be useful. The directory was made to make money, and now that google has screwed him, the owner screwed us (i had a featured link $150 or so can;t remember) and has left the forum in disgrace because he was a scham.

Bottom line is he made tons of money by cashing in while the beast (google) was sleeping, and slow to catch on to his brilliant gamble which paid of

 

Read Jeff's blog post.

Neither of these directories were cheating people. They spent the money from listings on traffic and seo for their directories.

 

If you bought a features listing on his directory, what your telling us here is that you though you were buying PR and got screwed over not because you were buying a listing as its still there. Then yes he did leave because the forums here were starting to get spammy as they still are by people who do not know what they are talking about, posting crap without doing any kind of research.

 

Welcome home

 

I am not going to comment on whats other are talking but hey it still says $99.XX for a listing. Well i thought PR 0 comes for FREE?

 

Don't speak for us all. I do a lot of research before making posts and even when you try and post on good subject matter it gets called crap. It seems to me people here only want to hear certain things.

 

Decreasing the fees due to a slap from Google would be a stupid move.

 

Keeping them at that is an even worse one. Forget all the nonsense with Google, the hard fact of the matter blogmaster is that they've bigged themselves up too much and imho have way overpriced themselves. You can't charge a Rolls Royce price for a Robin Reliant.

 

Its so tempting to make a daft april fools comment in this thread but it probably wouldn't work as your all on different time zones.

 

So everytime there is a PR update, the fees should be increased or descreased if the PR changes? What does that tell you about the reason people should buy a listing?

 

Not at all. PR in its present state means absolutely nothing to me. AD ARE overpriced it's a simple as that. They simply don't offer a level of value either in real traffic (not other directory owners) or do they offer any real 'link juice' if that's what your after.

come on Blogmaster, AD are putting themselves in the same pricing bracket as Yahoo. The Rolls Royce against the Robin Reliant scenario. I'm sure that at some time AD may well get to a stage where it can command such fees but until then they are putting a big huge target on their own backs which many are going to be all too willing to shoot at.

The main thing I'm concerned about is that they don't get constantly slated for past mistakes. They did the crime, they're doing their time, what more do people want.

 

I'm saying that it would not be a smart business decision to charge less on a directory that has been charging large amounts for years. Not justifying the fee, Past or present. I am saying it's a lot smarter to leave things like they are and let that thing die, than lower the price and admit some sort of guilt.