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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 the top […]

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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 down […]

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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 variuos types […]

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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 directories have […]

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Google goes wild

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 hard.
At the […]

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