e are hit every day with to visitors (others than
new directories submitting webmasters) are
announcements. More than practically null.
50 new directories are appearing
everyday. Many are asking There is one axiom, one question
themselves : for what are they and one estimation :
good for ? What useful resource
they bring to the internet ? The axiom :
Probably SE engineers and CEO's Search engines will degrade and
are asking themselves the same penalize some but not all
question. directories.
Directory frenzy begun when The question :
Google announced his PR
mechanism, slower in the Will this happen on automated
beginning but extremely algorithmic bases or a human
accelerated lately. rating will be involved ?
Keeping the same trend it's very This question is linked to the
accurate to say than in 6 months, definition of "bad neighborhood"
with continuously improved and "link farm". The algorithm
automated tools for submitting, will decide that a directory has
the quantity of links to be over a certain % links to "bad
considered by crawlers will grow, sites" and penalize it ?
artificially, extremely.
Let's take a look at DMOZ : based
And the content itself will be on this algorithm Google will
almost the same while the need to penalize DMOZ because is
services provided by directories crowded with dead links and
forbidden content (due to corrupt the same principles : approving
editors). links without providing any
content/human intervention, will
So we may think that a "kind" of be penalized.
human rating will be added in the
equation. Because it's obvious The "paid" directories, which
that an "AI" can't judge the contains a handful a "selected"
value of content, especially links, will not be penalized but
related to the usefulness towards their usefulness as real traffic
live people. are questionable and , probably,
the PR benefits will be degraded
The estimation a little.
In my opinion all automated The "big" directories, counted on
directories will be penalized. If the fingers of a hand, will stay
the submission isn't human rated with the same weight. Nothing new
or approved than the directory here :D big guys are always
will be blacklisted. friends.
Also all the directories based on
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