I'm Listed In the Aviva Directory - Will I Be Punished?

My brain has been spinning all morning, reading all the "Directories" posts.

Here's a thought.

I found myself listed in the Aviva directory some months ago. I did NOTHING to get listed in Aviva. I just "showed up" there. At the time, I thought it was cool. I assumed that some editor thought I deserved a listing, because he/she liked my site.

This morning, I am thinking, "Uh-oh". This might not be so good. Google might think that I PAID to get into Aviva. I didn't. So, if I got in there due to an editor's decision, it might hurt me?

How ironic is THAT? This thought bothers me.

 

Good question. I wish I knew the answer. I hope not...

 

There is no such thing as a bad incoming link. The link may not do any good, but it won't do any bad. Google does this to protect 3rd party sites, like yourself, or someone could just add their competitors name to all those ffa sites.

 

what can anyone do about it. If you run a big site(and i happen to run 3 of them) your sites users will also submit to directories in order to help or just like that. I have myself seen my site at places where i never submitted them(and they are paid directories)

Can't do anything about it.

 

Hi surf dude,
Not to worry at all.
Who knows, 'who submitted your site to aviva.'
What's the proof that your competitors haven't submitted it.
If you site is listed in the directory then it's a good thing for you, you should be happy for that. You got a backlink and instead of punishment you will be rewarded. ATB

 

I don't mean to spoil this thread, but I just checked, and I am no longer listed in Aviva.

STILL, I think the original question remains valid. I WAS in there. Others (as stated above) must have gotten in there in the same way.

What happened in my case? I'll guess.
1. There was a policy change at Aviva - now, only payers are allowed in. They found out that I didn't pay, and booted me for that reason.

2. Uh, . . . ?

 

Evidently an editor removed your listing after reading this thread..
you sounded worried about being punished so they did you a favor
so now theirs no more worries on your end.

I dont beileve its about wether you paid or not for your review as
im sure they add listings on thier own behalf for whatever reasons....

hope this helps

thx
malcolm

 

how did you get in Aviva without paying?
Did you get in when they were a free directory?

-- or just added and not paid?

 

I have no idea whether it is true or not but according to another thread Aviva copied a bunch of listings from some other directory or something like that.

 

I seriously, seriously dout it, I would explain why but eating atm

 

Politician nailed it - there is (almost) no such thing as a bad incoming link.
Penalizing sites that are blatantly selling links is one thing. Penalizing the sites being linked to is another thing and would itself be open to abuse.

 

Yup as above, no way you can get punished, if you sit and think about it, it would be absolutely pointless if all competitors could be submitting each others sites everywhere if it meant it would affect them negatively. From my understanding the only links that can hurt you is if your site is linked to somewhere that is part of a bad network / neighbourhood etc and you are linking back. One way links that the search engines think you paid for are just not given any weight or relevance. I am no expert but thats my understanding of it.

 

Did you signup for the service when it was free?
Cheers

 

Sorry, been busy all day.

I don't know how I got in, and I don't know how I got out.
I didn't even know they were ever free. I certainly don't remember ever having "submitted".

Maybe I was "added in" from somewhere else, as was suggested.
This sounds plausible to me.
Maybe I was "delisted" as a result of this thread, as was suggested.
I sure didn't pay, that's for certain.

I just don't seem to know anything today. I feel pretty dumb. Ha-ha.
But as was stated, "my (perceived) problem has been solved". Ha-ha again.

 

surf_dude, when this issues been revealed this few weeks i found myself in horrible situation to thinks of my site.

However,i hope google doing the right way. What i mean is if our site already a few years old of course we have a good backlink and been listed in a directory such as aviva. Im doing dir submission and found a lot of directories that just concern on paid link. I hope this don't effect free submission directories much

 

You can actually do damage to sites via links, i wont go in to that but in this case no it wont harm you. The worse case scenario is it just wont help.

 

Dont worry you will ranking will not be affected because of that, I have a website tha still have a link on a penalized website for a year now and I it still ok

 

Is actually right, though exactly how its done is up to much speculation. Though in the case of directory links I certainly hope that they do not adversely effect a site. If so, then there is going to be some MAJOR changes on the net soon.

One of the changes of course will be all the added income to directory owners as competing sites pay for each other's listings.

 

pretty crappy if you get penalize for being listed on a directory

 

I agree. Few links cannot really harm any site.

However, when bulk links are created for a site, they can cause substantial damage - especially when the site doesn't have more than a few quality links.