Matt Cutts is the head of the web spam team. It was probably one of his empoyees that did that to Aviva.
Matt Cutts oh dear, he seems to be the puching bag for all people who lost PR! he should probably employ some bodygaurds! M. PS: on the bright side (or otherwise) will this forum ever get over "PR"!!!
I think they penalised the directories untill they got blisters. I bet that 99.99% of the directories are violating their guidelines from G's point of view. Their thinking like : "why should we let these little rats to promote through directories when AdWords is better ? "
Google Online Banking is one that i see as genuinely likely within the next 3 - 5 years. You know that something is big when people dont even say search a lot of the time, they just say google it. I dont hear these so often: Yahoo it msn it ask it
Mercedes has its own bank and the company is smaller than Google. The Google bank it is just a matter of time.
Google is a tech company, tech companies normally would have a much higher beta than an automobile manufacturer.
Well it is a strategy those big companies had for each other, sue each other time and again over anti trust and the slightest thing they can find. Part of business strategy.
It would be a lot of hatred first before they come to that. From the looks of it, it is going to be a hostile and messy bid.
i agree, we should devise some other standers to measure the value of directories. we should act now, otherwise it will be too late
Since when did DP become a vixens' voyeuristic neighbourhood? As with all big corporations in the internet world, like the Parker Brothers, they'll only take off where there's a market willing to use the service, paid or not. For example, look at the Scottish city of Dundee (colloquially known as 'Scumdee', go firgure) is the only Scottish city in the latest Monopoly board game. (Yes, I realise the connotations of 'Monopoly'). The reason being, there is some form of market there. Microsoft, or Google for that matter, wouldn't be attempting to take over Yahoo for nothing. In Google's terms, they just want it to be greedy, and further dominate your everyday lives. Microsoft? Well, I guess they're just sick of being labelled as a 'has been'
If someone likes your directory he will submit no matter the PageRank. The fact is that most of the submitters are still driven by the so called PageRank and sadly they submit even is the directory is a junk one. I think more than 80% of the directories are disappearing after the owners will see that the PageRank is no more & the submissions are few. The biggest ( I mean the hardly promoted, in vogue ) directories today could simply disappear tomorrow and so your money, and this will only turn the score 1 - 0 for Google, meaning another wasted directory. An authority ranking method for directories( just like PageRank but independent from Google) would be the solution. PS: why the biggest SEO companies still submit their clients websites to directories ? Because it is useful. Thanks, hyper
I think its going to be an interesting next few years for directories, i want to see at least half of them survive it all and still be around bigger and better, it will be rather satisfying to see that happen, and to see the changes and watch them age a bit more.
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I see sitelinks for avivadirectory, but not for aviva directory in google. Interesting. As pipes often points out, sitelinks can come and go.