We know there are millions of directory born every day, but many of them are low quality. Just got a message that low quality directory links would make our site devalued. We submit thousands of free directory to make more back links, if that's true, we may devalue our sites. that was terrible. Do you hear anything about that?
Remember: You cannot control who link to your website. So even a link from the lowest quality website will not affect you. Neither in good or bad way.
It is a bad idea for sure. This kind of news will make the internet industry a jungle. As someone said before you cannot control who is linking to you.
From A ppt file about spamming in seomoz blog. Yeah, but it is not the reason google would not devalue you.
Yes however if all you have is low quality links then Google can and will devalue your site. Sites with some high quality links can get away with having spamy links.
This is not true and cannot be true, so do not worry about that. The worst possible thing could be that google is not counting those backlinks, but that's all.
Yeap thats true. There is no harm if you submit your link to thousands of free directories to make more back links.
yea same story though if you get linked on good directories (not that hard to know what a good directory looks like) then it will help your trust rank more than getting linked on a lot of poor ones nothing new imo
It is good to see both kind of comments here but I don't think it's the case. As Velocity said, the worst thing could be that google is not counting those backlinks, but that's all. If the case would be the other way around, than all you have to do is pick up your competitors site and submit it to all the low quality site you can think of. (Illegal, banned site etc) And you are done. But I don't think its that simple. Low quality links may not add any value to your site but they certainly don't give any trouble. (at least thats what I believe)
I think its not the matter of who is linking to you but who are you linking to.... Having hundreds of porn sites linking to your site will not harm you because it is something you don't have any control over.... But if you link to bad neighborhood you definetly are risking your site...
Yeah, as you said people can link to you from porn sites or etc, but google would look into your site to see you are passivity or not. If all is as you said, there would be no link farms, google would not ban them, they could say some one else links to me. I think we should keep away from low quality directory, they might do harm to your sites. What's more, try quality directories which we can find on DP forum, people would like to talk about them.
Google will ban the linkfarms not the sites they r linking to... I think you should browse the forum a bit and do some research first... There is no concept of low quality directory that can harm your website... A back link can either benefit you or can be devalued and thats about it.
I said it might Link farms also offer some service to people with their link building, which is like low quality directories, I think.
Nope, this claim would be false as like somebody said it would be just to easy to hurt your compitetors site Google or any other SE could not be so dumb If you are doing a reciprocal, then it might be a different issue
Low quality directory links wouldn't make your site devalued, but the link spam from google groups or some forums would make your site devalued.