Directories banned?

i dunno. i've seen that when site: and link: both show empty its not a 1 day, 2 week, or month long penalty box.

 

You've also got a point there, dmoz.org isn't banned and they don't have a category description on the particular page but the have a link to a description.. For instance: http://www.dmoz.org/News/Newspapers/desc.html but other than that they also just run pages full of links.

True, business.com have got back into the G index after they got banned.

 

business.com was different. they did an improper redirect from a different domain name or something like that. i dont think these sites are doing that.

 

Search engines like links because they indicate that a site is found popular by other webmasters. When you exchange links, you are really cheating (just being objective here). It makes sense to me that the search engines get pissed. They can no longer tell which links are indicating popularity and which ones are really tokens of appreciation.

 

I wonder what would the effect of " not required but appreciated" be.

 

To use your user id: the directory would become more "real"
(my directory appreciates, but doesn't require and links are not approved based on reciprocation but quality of content )

 

I am curious is there something in particular that these directories have done to get banned? They look like normal directories but I didnt look that hard so maybe I am missing something. If they are banned for being reciprocal then no worries since I do not offer that

 

Good for you Then you're legit and if you rank, it won't be for the "illusion of popularity

 

Oh ok thanks, I like to be legit

 

Your own directory is (from what I see). But your list of directories that you recommend may need some updating. So does mine and I promise I will get to it

 

Sorry but are you referring to my list of link directories located here?

http://www.addyoursitefreesubmit.com/business/advertising_and_marketing/link_directories/

If so these are just directories I have come across that I added to help support other webmasters who offer the same service, it isn't really a goal of mine to keep that aspect of the site completely updated like those great link directory list sites out there

 

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so what happend to this site ? i dont understand google visits almost every 2 days but it doesn't get indexed no more why ? last googlebot visited : 01 Aug 2005 - 18:05

 

hmmm all about hot chicks huh http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:dc7mUm8qY0QJ:www.desihotty.com/+desihotty&hl=en dunno, bro, risky business

 

Google has also banned this page of Dmoz

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/

alll the pages below this category

Google also made own page ZERO

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/

So google war is against directories is ON

 

Personally I am not worried since I have real people visiting my directories and checking out the sites so the PR value isnt such a huge concern since I have other sites linking to my directories.

 

Hmm, wonder why they didn't ban the whole of DMOZ, if it really is as useless as people on this board seem to think it is...

Ah maybe they just forgot it this time around....

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Next time, though - DMOZ is going DOWN.

 

I'm curious to know how you could verify it's been banned? Just because it shows no PageRank and is not cached, doesn't verify that it's banned. Could be other explanations of that.

 

It seems that by Google banning directories, that goes against the whole theme of the internet - to find valuable information! Why are directories so 'bad'? It does not make any sense to me at all.
The only explination I can come up with is that directories are now being considered to be the same thing as link farms.

What are everyone's thoughts on this?

 

Alucard, not sure what brought this on. Megri was referring to the fact that the page with the directories was what he considers banned. If anything, it shows that Google does not like the directories overall listed on that page and does not reflect upon DMOZ one bit.

I don't know, it seems like too much of a coincidence that it happens to be the page with directories. Maybe not banned, but maybe some sort of filter. Having looked thru that list, about half of those directories seem very good while the other half is not really unique when comparing it to all the "directories" that are out there.

 

Sorry - my sarcasm obviously didn't come across.

I'm linking this back to earlier threads that implied that obviously DMOZ is a dying thing and that noone can understand why Big G hasn't effectively banned them and all the clones, etc., etc. The only usual reason that people can come up with is that Google hasn't got around to it yet, but they will, mark my words!

I'm saying that the fact that Google went in to one specific category and, effectively, marked it as "useless" probably took as much work as it would have to mark the whole ODP. The fact that they obviously haven't could be taken as refuting the theories expressed...