http://www.afhill.com/blog/google-devaluing-directories/ Reflections on online strategy, social media marketing, web accessibility and interactive design. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.afhill.com/blog/google-devaluing-directories/#comment-190277 michaelj72 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:55:52 +0000 http://www.afhill.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-190277 I think they may perhaps be saying to both those big diretories that we don't think you are all so very important these days, so we are not going to be recommending that people specificially submit to your sites. dmoz is certainly in a different boat than yahoo which i do believe maintains a high standard. 9/10 of eveyone i encounter on line about dmoz is a rag against them. google should put a few hundred people in there and reorganize and clean it up, it would be so simple. i could even do it. since so many of the google wonkers themselves are bloggers i guess may they are leaning away from directories and towards the social marking and marketing/linking end come from bloggers and social bookmarkers.....we'll have to read more I think they may perhaps be saying to both those big diretories that we don’t think you are all so very important these days, so we are not going to be recommending that people specificially submit to your sites.
dmoz is certainly in a different boat than yahoo which i do believe maintains a high standard. 9/10 of eveyone i encounter on line about dmoz is a rag against them. google should put a few hundred people in there and reorganize and clean it up, it would be so simple. i could even do it.
since so many of the google wonkers themselves are bloggers i guess may they are leaning away from directories and towards the social marking and marketing/linking end come from bloggers and social bookmarkers…..we’ll have to read more

]]> http://www.afhill.com/blog/google-devaluing-directories/#comment-104777 Brett Borders Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:02:40 +0000 http://www.afhill.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-104777 I think Google is just really tired of people buying PageRank with directories and is starting to treat the general ones more and more like a worthless bought link. I think Google is just really tired of people buying PageRank with directories and is starting to treat the general ones more and more like a worthless bought link.

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