Google Penalizing Directory Links
Some of you may already know this but for those who don't, here are the facts.
- According to this report, as many as 60 directories were penalized by Google
- The directories had dropped in rank
- Google are now specifically targeting paid link directories (as it is against Google's Quality Guidelines)
- Competitors may have helped Google by making a report by a paid link reporting form
Big and well known web directories such as Aviva, Alive, Big Web Links, Ewebpages, Directory Dump, Elegant Directory, and Biz-Dir are heavily affected and hundreds of directory pages have been removed from Google's index.
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