AlexMiles - 6:34 am on Jul 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

Well it hasn't happened to me, partly because I don't have a directory site I suppose, and I doubt if I have a solution, but I was thinking.

If I was an evil virtual dictator on a power trip, and I wanted to keep my subjects guessing, I'd not implement one change, I'd implement two at the same time.

When a site owner is allowed to fix up their listing in a directory, they must be quite likely to put the exact same text in any directory they list under. Could trigger a dupe penalty for a phrase or two if I'm reading the Google patent right. Perhaps too many dupe phrase penalties on one site nukes it?

It might be that anything with the word 'directory' in a meta tag is more likely to be on top of the serps when a webmaster looking for directories to submit to is, well, looking.

Hope that helps.

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