Hey, Please check out the newest article on the Directory Kit. The article is called - The Problem With Using Popular Directory Scripts And Possible Solution In my article I explain why it might be bad to use very popular directory scripts. And I also provide the solution to the problem. I hope you are going to enjoy reading it. Any comments and feedback is appreciated.
Im thinking your not understanding that if you use "custom" categories rather then the everyday downland "catagory dump" you offer more as many never bother to upgrade or drill down in those categories which is what hurts some directories. To me a good script is the foundation and the "categories" and "content" it offers is the heart unless im missing something here... ??? thx malcolm
A custom script would be a nice idea. If some owners have the money to go with this I suggest they do. Dirsensei is looking forward to it. I haven't asked leopardat1 yet but I suppose he could do one if anyone should be interested. Cheers
The script has nothing to do with how google views a site. Most paid directories with hard working owners have uniqe categories, so that poses no threat. People use phpLD simply as its the best - not just the core script, but the support, forums, mods, templates etc etc Its also an aged script, so many bugs and security issues have been worked through and resolved. A custom sscript would be nice, but when you can modify and re-design phpLD its good enough. When i wasnt a directory owner, i would have really known that dirsensei was using the same backbone as aviva for example. Either way, it was a nice read and useful if looking for more scripting options
I understand the difference between default and custom category dumps. What I meant is most of the directories that use very popular scripts, have the same code structure. So what I think is that Google might start to ban directories that are use very popular directory scripts. Because those scripts are used to make money from directories. However custom scripts would be a solution for the problem now.
I happen to disagree with your article. The script itself just helps you to organize and catalog listings. I can tell from the point of eSyndicat that it is entirely up to the wabmaster what he can show and how he wants to display it. The script offer so much flexibility that if you really want it - your site can be as unique as it gets. The problem is that large part of directory owners does not want to bother with making their site unique. It will involve a lot of work or significant amount of money to pay for customization. Easy way is to install the script (preferably free), import standard database dump that everyone else is using, slap one of the available free templates on it - and you are in business! Here are few samples of really unique directories even though they all are using eSyndicat: http://moversneeds.com/ http://wwindex.com/ http://www.craftytips.com/ http://www.neotags.com/ So the point is - different script will not make your directory unique or better quality. You have to invest time and/or money to accomplish that...
The article was a load of crap even a blind man could see was a way to advertise an equally crap directory script. Boy I thought I went OTT with advertising the phpLynx script, but this beats me coz at least I'm blatant about my adverts.
What I also want to mention is that most of the directories, which have been banned ricently use popular directory scripts. So maybe popular directory scripts got bad repetition, that they are bought only in order to sell links. And Google can use meta tags in order to determine what script the directory is running on. Such as: <meta name="generator" content="PHP Link Directory 3.0.6" /> It's just my hypothesis, I don't try to offend anyone or anything like that. I just want to share with you my point of view.
I dont think it was intentional. It wasnt a paid review, just an article that didnt make much sense. Meta tags can be changed. Google banned those sites due to other reasons, it had nothing to do with the script.
Yeah he did, and as its probably one of the BETTER one's out there that actually bothers to have features built in to avoid being just another dupe, it might have been a good move to have commented on it or other scripts that do what phpLynx does. But hey as the guy said, he didn't have much time. Got to love ya, how many directories strong is it now.
The Google penalty on directories may of been hand done. Just an employee visits http://www.avivadirectory.com/strongest-directories/ http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=120550 and places a penalty on any listed. go free and spread the risk over thousands of IPs.