A few months back, Google had launched a major crackdown on the directory industry, which saw many directories disappearing from the SERPS, even for their own name. One of them was Jeff Behrendt’s Aviva directory. One of the possible reasons floating around was the interlinking that Jeff did with his directories ( He owns a number of them- Sevenseek, Apahcinc and Kwikgoblin for example). Another was the number of 301 redirects to Aviva.
October 20, 2007
Are directories really worth it ?
This is a question on which I have thought long and hard, and am yet to reach upon a decision. Directories have been around for years, and are seen by many webmasters as one of the easiest ways to make money, apart from setting up a blog and putting up Adsense on it. And the recent Google crackdown on the industry has stirred up a debate which has seen former friends becoming enemies , taking shots at each other.
Let us be honest here. Google’s Pagerank system, which is solely based on the number of inbound links to your site, gave rise to the idea of a directory. The idea looks excellent on paper.
May 15, 2007
List of free directories
Directory submission is one of the most important things to do for a new site today. I’d recommend you to buy submissions because paid directories are promoted heavily. They are well crawled, have hundreds of pages indexed and most of the inner categories have PR. Read it all..