Penalized Directories PR Restored

Nothing changed for me.

 

Hmm... So which site is that?

 

quality dir pr is increased

 

I bet the economy will recover now. Notice how the recession started when Google banned thousands of directories? I was rolling in cash before Google decided to punish us for working hard in increasing PR.

 

Lol im guessing that you're joking, the recession didn't start from that, lmao, anyway i think your joking so il stop there.

 

LOL... yes, that seems to be true. I would think the Fed should start monitoring Google Blacklists and pull the U.S. economy out of the recession!

 

Hehe you got it

 

google has the ability to make or crush fortunes in a second

 

This can only be a good thing!

 

I think the crux of the matter was that Google wanted to stamp out the selling of links and PR.

However it also realises that good directories do take time to administer and that webmasters should be able to earn some revenue.

So is a high PR directory selling high PR links? Nope. It's charging for the administration and skill of running that directory successfully, and as PR is not equal across all categories some pages of links could be PR0 anyway.

I think whilst the Google algorithm uses links to determine results in SERPs they needed to rationalise their bias toward directories.

One way of thinking from the Google camp would have been, "people with the most money buy the most links and get the best results" and that non organic linking strategy didn't gel with them a few years ago.

However now the thinking may well be, "why penalize both good directories and links where website owners go the extra mile for their website"

Consider your website a business. Should your business be penalized for the more advertising you do? Of course not, it should benefit, that's why businesses do junk mail, radio, yellow pages etc. Google's initial stripping and in some cases evicting of sites was gruesome for a company that insists using an algorithm that counts links. I bet they considered for a long time the morals of what they did and are reviewing now their stance on this whole matter.

The key is, are directories selling links or getting paid an admin fee? Should purchasers of links be entitled to the link juice? Can google differentiate between a directory, a website links page, blog links, newspaper comment links etc? With sites like Twitter that they spam themselves they had no choice but to reinstate the status quo.

Yes, it's high time that the people who work on their sites are not penalized, and those that build a site, don't add content, don't promote it and forget about it like some unwanted gift gathering dust in the basement get what they deserve.

In the directory I run just tonight I spent 1 hour tidying up rubbish submissions and reviewing others. How many times people select the category "Top" is incredible, or typo something, or have the wrong category, meta's etc ... we should be paid for that work and a few dollars in most cases isn't enough.

 

Lets face it, google doesn't like directories - Why? Because they are a waste of time and data.

 

Hmmm, I'm not so sure ... they sort of have their own directory.

But this is the better PR page to be listed on for this site.

 

I don't think so.
If that way of thinking was true, then G. would restore PR 6 AMRAY Web Directory lost 3 years ago.

I'm sure even Google has no idea what Google is doing and why



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Maybe there's other issues that site got busted for, I don't know, beware black hat covert ops is a good policy.

There's other extremely high PR Directories that charge hundreds to be in which are not affected so one must ask, why did Google bin some and not others?

If you read this thread you'll see Google dealing with a few sites same.

 

There IS NOT and there was never been BH issues, it just as I said G. has no idea what it's doing when it comes to PR.

On another hand G. is proving time after time that PR is useless and SERP os priceless.
Why Am I saying that?
Well, just search G. for
best business web directory or
best free web directory
and then you tell me if AMRAY needs PR or 6 or 4 makes any difference for Us.



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Hey, I'm a little confused.

Is this your site, the one you are on about? http://www.amray.com/ If it is I liked it except for the dang music video! Stuff like that annoys me, takes time to load and I wonder where the heck I can turn it off without getting some pop up or conned into clicking onto something by mistake.

Anyway, are you sour about the fact others are infront of you, is that it. I figure PR changes all the time, up and down, maybe for example a PR6 2 years ago was worth 6000 Google points and they revalued it to 4000 Google points these days. I have had sites go down in PR 2008 and 2009 and I think it was a re-evaluation of the worth of the PR. As time passes they likely move the bar around a little otherwise too many will be 10.

You seem a smart man, if other sites are ahead of you in SERPs do you know why?

 

Why should I be sour?
SEO our site on Page #1 even in a second spot for: best free web directory
is more than good enough for me.



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Ah, see when I do searches here I get different results to you there. That's because I use a different Google server and am located in a different place, you are #14 in this search.

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