Are Bidding Directories Gone For Good?

Please share your opinions with me on this

A Directory is basically a website which lists a variety of websites in different categories, directories can be free, paid, or both. Directories are a good way to build links to your website and create more traffic, however Google does have some rules on how these links in directories work and how they affect your site rankings in search engines. More information regarding buying and selling links can be found on Googleâ€™s website here http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66736

To begin, a bidding directory is very similar to a normal directory, however there is one thing that sets the two apart, in a bidding directory links are ranked by the amount of money that is contributed to each link. Usually the highest ranked link will be featured at the top of every page of the directory, giving it maximum exposure to visitors, and the top 10 links may be featured on the main page. All other links would still be in the directory but a visitor would need to navigate to the correct category in order to find the link.

So the question is, how does Google look at links in bidding directories, does Google look at them as a way of advertising your website or does Google see it as strictly a way of increasing pagerank? Markspixel operates 2 bidding directories which can be found in our blogroll at the bottom of every page, these are http://surfeasy.org and http://Bid-For-Links.com and these 2 directories are fairly good but we have seen a decline for the past months. Iâ€™m not sure if this means anything but maybe Google ignores or gives no credit to links from directories like these? Bidding directories does advertise peoples website in my opinion and most sites end up in their relevant categories, so my question is if Google would rather have bidding directories or crowded and unorganized directories like pixel-links.com for example?

Please feel free to share your opinions on this topic.
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Are Bidding Directories Gone For Good?

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