Aviva Diretory was one among the many popular web directories that was penalized by Google. As most suggested, this was the effect of over optimization and aggressive backlink building. Some time back Aviva was not even ranking for it’s own name when searching in Google. Now Aviva is back on top of the SERPs and [...]

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With Google on a rampage against paid links, the question is time and again asked about the future concerning bid directories. Well I myself manage a bid directory and I am really sorry to say that the future looks bleak. That is what Matt Cutts means when he say, a bidding directory that just gives [...]

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Google was at it and kept to the word of penalizing sites who were openly selling links to compromise the Google PR by reducing their PR’s. Not just web directories, but many sites were taken down in the Google crackdown. Yesterday, Google made it official that a sites selling links to compromise on the Google PR would be taken [...]

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Well I know PR sucks for most webmasters on the outside, but there is no doubt that every webmaster is PR fasinated somewhere deep down inside. Choice at Utlimated Directory List has consolidated some PR data for the recent update that I thought would be interesting to share. Basically he has recorded the PR fluctuations on [...]

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Well the speculations are up and just wanted to post some revelant scoop. This is regarding the lastest issue of Google possibily penalizing web directories. My bet is that it something to do with how these directories has built their backlinks and a case of over optimization. Too many links, too fast. None of my [...]

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The latest buzz that taking the webmaster community by storm. The Google SERPs is standing like the iceberg that sank the Titanic, just this time the Titanic is symbolic for the general web directories. Huge SERPs change for web directories in general and it seems that some of the best promoted sites have been hit [...]

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***Begin Rant  Well I woke up this morning and was so disoriented. Why? I was working on launching a bid directory and suddenly this morning i had completely lost interest. I have the hosting, the script and also got the design made but is was just not feeling right. I guess this is a phase [...]

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Note: Sorry for not posting lately, I am little buzy with content creation for a lot of my sites that had not been updated for quite some time. Back on topic: Now there would be a time when you would like to get inspired for your directory designs, well I have seen most of them but definitely not [...]

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So we have a hacker on rampage. IndexScript has been hacked and this could be bad new for people running their directories on IndexScript. The hacker seems to be randomly targetting sites and has managed to breach sites running on some other pouplar scripts and CMS as well. (a few WP and Joomla sites as well) The [...]

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Rand at seomoz.org has released a video where he talks about using web directories as a tool to one’s link building campaign. And well he does portray the mass web directory industry as useless and it feels bad. As quoted from their blog: “This week, Rand talks about directories and why so many of them have [...]

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