Hey guys, I own a web directory and have not logged or checked it since sometime now. It has over 25k pending links that are to be approved - Do you think I'll have any negative effect if I approve all the links in one shot? Will google flag this as spam or deindex my site? Please help me out. Thanks!
Mmmm...I am afraid to tell you that you might get penalized... approving all 25k submission may bring you unwanted links to some problematic niches
I would turn off submissions for a while and go through them. Once you get started, you'll probably find the vast percentage of the submissions are garbage just from looking at the site descriptions. Approving them all is the surest way to be deemed a link farm and lose all credibility with both Google and future submitters.
You give me the strong impression that you have no idea what your doing with a directory. You only want quality, reviewed and edited submissions.