Because I noticed my link directory that was robbed by Google and stripped of it's legit PR6 rank due to hard work and money a couple of years ago, now displays a PR4 rank: http://www.addyoursitefreesubmit.com/ So I wonder if Google finally let hard workers get a little piece of the pie or if this was an accident?
Thanks I will read it now So the internet dictator Google is giving hard workers some slack? Now if they unban my Adsense account that would make things better. I was an Adsense member for over 7 years with them, and someone clicked on my ads a lot for a week and my account was banned and appeal denied with no explanation. I called, emailed, written letters, and faxed them with no response.
A lot of directories that was stripped of PR's are now back, take http://alivedirectory.com (PR4 was PR7)for example, the dir was stripped for two years and now it's back and some others too like http://www.directorydump.com/ (PR3 was PR6?). So it's a good thing
Im not sure what they did recently, why they did it and for the length of time. Obviously i understand the obvious of the recent changes and that some directories now have serps and pr back to normal. If the whole point was to stop the owners being so obsessed with certain things then that makes sense, but its seemed to have paved way for an even worse situation now, the collections of networks being created. There are probably more bad directories now than there were before the last part of 2007, these brand new directories that are a complete mess with ignorant clueless owners. Obviously they will have to pay the price sometime soon for that.
Google might have thought the two year ban would make directory industry behave better (which it has) and now it is giving it back its rankings.
I hope so, i dont mean it as nastiness towards those network owners either but a bit of commom sense is missing with them, i know its most likely in the hope of flipping some of them too to unsuspecting people, either way it cant have a happy ending. I was thinking this too, its at least tightened things up in one sense and i guess when someone still owns and operates a directory 2, 3, 4, or 5 years later regardless of a long penalisation then it shows some commitment. Doesn't mean we are immune now, i read about other types of sites that had been through 2 - 3 separate penalisations, back in 2005 - 2006 i think.
exactly, hopefully directory owners are a lot more careful nowadays and focus on building quality sites.
Does this mean that directories have become more valuable? I'm mainly talking about directories that have been around for a while and proven themselves.
Some are, fortunately and some will never be. Looking at the Solicitations and Announcement section, the rise of .info directories and directories built on silly named high PR domains make me think if some will ever "get it"(...)