Comments on: Web Directory Penalization

By: The $50 Directory Submission Poll Results

The $50 Directory Submission Poll Results — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:39:16 +0000

[...] the directory penalizations the V7N Directory had a decent PageRank of 6 and with several PR4 and lower PR category pages and [...]

By: Contextual Advertisers Like to Remain Under the Google Radar

Contextual Advertisers Like to Remain Under the Google Radar — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:41:32 +0000

[...] it declared war as well as to the link buyers. The first targeted were the web directories and the directories were penalized [...]

By: $50 USD for Directory Submission Expensive ?

$50 USD for Directory Submission Expensive ? — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:36:41 +0000

[...] provided a good income which supported major part of the experiments I have been running. But since Google hit on directories the conversion with V7n Directory slowed down even tho this directory was only penalized on [...]

By: Why Most Of Directories Got Penalized

Why Most Of Directories Got Penalized — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:57:04 +0000

[...] get a better view of the fact why Google hits directories so heavily I decided to run a experiment and order a directory submission for a third site I have [...]

By: What Happened to Web Directories ?

What Happened to Web Directories ? — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:08:57 +0000

[...] nofollow tag) webmasters were wondering who is going to win this battle. The first actions was penalization on web directories, the directories received in penalization first on the SERPs and they were not even ranking for [...]

By: Google Hits your Pocket | SEO Optimization

Google Hits your Pocket | SEO Optimization — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:48:49 +0000

[...] rewind our memory and take a look at what has happened just few months ago. Google penalized directories and I was fine with that because most of the directories were useful site that were filling the [...]

By: Link Sales Business Not Over Yet | SEO Optimization

Link Sales Business Not Over Yet | SEO Optimization — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:49:05 +0000

[...] continued with directory penalization (a story which was called google kills directories) where many directories lost rankings for their branding name since they were rates as low quality [...]

By: Do your SEO gradually | SEO Optimization

Do your SEO gradually | SEO Optimization — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:47:45 +0000

[...] above the directory submission and this is the most dangerous part. With the latest story that google kills directories and has penalized a huge amount of worthless directories it would be dangerous to end up submitting [...]

By: The V7N Directory | SEO Optimization

The V7N Directory | SEO Optimization — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:30:11 +0000

[...] the big buzz on Google search engine and web directory penalization all SEO guys got in confusion. It is not that easy now to hire a directory submission company that [...]

By: Catherine Lawson

Catherine Lawson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:34:45 +0000

I definitely agree. And I would like to see more of these spammy directories disappear of the face of Google. Because they are getting ranked higher than decent sites. And because they don’t provide any value.

I personally have not paid for links before. And I believe that Google would be able to provide better search results if they penalised all paid links. And also, if they didn’t penalise sites for a lot of outbound links.

Sites would link more naturally if they didn’t think that linking out was going to dilute their PR.