Hi, I've just been looking at my backlinks for a particular site, until sometime last week there were loads of directories listed including aviva and alive, I've just looked again today and there are hardly any directories showing up. A first impression is that the BL's from directories could have been devalued, has anyone else noticed this?
google tends to show homepage links before the directory backlinks. Thats why it shows bidding directory homepage links for me rather than directory backlinks as they are around 5 clicks from the home page.
Hello... Well lets see.... I added "Searching Url Directory" a new directory of mine to Biz-King on Aug 15th and it was indexed on Aug 16th in latest links section... Now when i google for "Searching Url Directory" i get ( Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 115,000,000 Searching Url Directory ) and in the 7th position of the results i see the Biz-Kings Listing So i would have to disagree that anything has been de-valued.. thx malcolm
Hello... I think what happens is that it reaches the top pages and a few days later other links take its place due to them being newer info and google search is constantly moving and changing so.... thx malcolm
Directory backlinks were devalued last time, it stands to reason that the same would happen for this most recent update.
I re-checked for my listings, and i have not noticed any changes yet. Hope it remains the same for me atleast
I had both. My Google Backlinks have increased but the search term decreased for its title at google and looking at it i think i have some idea.
I'd like to see someone prove a link had been "de-valued." The fact that Google hides almost all links now in their link command is not proof. There are ways to test this, but I doubt anyone is doing it.
We will only know if the serp's start tumbling. But so far so good. Maybe its time we started forward planning and figuring out how we can contribute to the future of this industry instead of walking off with everything thats not nailed down.
So i guess you didnt even bother to investigate my above post? Well the way i see it is the way someone said it above... If your uncomfortable in submitting to directories no problem ...Dont BUT im sure your competitor is and will be enjoying the traffic and sales he got due to his site being on the top page after submitting to directories... thx malcolm
For first 20 backlinks in Google with link command used I see 12 links from directories. No problem with it. Remember Google shows only selection of links - not necessary those strongest. Such selection is not represantive to real power of backlinks. Also on Yahoo half of first 50 links comes from directories. From other hand: I see many referals in my stats like: Google.com with search query link:domain.com People are checking their backlinks and seems many come from my directory. I know it's similar for many other established directories. Still directories are one of best or best source of one-way backlinks.