Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

A WebmasterWorld thread has one SEO noticing that Google has started to purge their index of the free directory submission web sites. He said that about 50% of the free directory submission web sites are no longer to be found in Google...
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-directory-removal-15151.html

 

TRUE,

u can find many such sites in vmoptions too which has got deindexed.

 

Google strive to make his index as pure as possible. Directory submission is died already, so these Google's moves are just cleaning. I don't think this can impact seriously on these sites

 

thanks for sharing the information

 

oops.. not good for SEO community

 

Directory submission is recognized as unnatural and spam links.

SEO seems to be harder to marketers.

 

I really don't see the point of free directory's. What are they trying to acheive? It's better to have a niche site. Google loves niche sites.

 

The free directories were only ever to boost SEO ratings. Honestly can anyone say they have ever found a website by browsing one of the free directories?

 

Directory Websites has always appeared pointless to me. "Directory" was just an excuse for providing worthless back links that fooled webmasters into thinking their site's URL must be listed on the said directory site..
Google itself is already a directory website when you think of it - a directory website with the largest database of sites listed and has a search app that produces the best and most accurate results. It's a pity that those excuses for websites were even allowed to rank well in Google when the truth is they contributed nothing to the internet community, but instead, the ones that became popular felt a bit powerful, and used it for biased activity. Oh hey there DMOZ

 

As others have said this was pretty expected. No one ever uses directories anymore, they were there to be abused for SEO purposes, nothing more.

 

Only directories having same C Class Ip and poor content have been de-indexed not all. Check a list of free web directories that are working good even after Penguin Update. Check the list below:

http://weddo.info
http://www.mywebsitedirectory.net
http://www.freeseowebdirectories.com
http://www.thsbl.com
http://www.addurlrecreation.com
http://zexro.info
http://www.linkbuildingwebsites.com
http://www.addyoururlfree.com
http://www.awebdirectories.com
http://mugro.info
http://www.webpageurls.com
http://www.directoriesaddurl.com
http://www.addsitetosearch.com
http://www.seowebdirectoryfree.com
http://www.a51directory.info
http://www.searchenginelinkbuilding.com
http://www.top-search-directory.com
http://www.seorare.com
http://www.addurlhealth.com

Check, all these are working..

Thanks

 

check out this link http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4749368...s-stop-losing-traffic-googles-penguin-update/

 

thanks for sharing the information