jenkers - 8:17 pm on Jul 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hi, thought I'd chime in with my tuppence - for what its worth:

one of my sites is directory - each page is SEO'd (in a very minor kind of way - strictly white-hat) for the subject it represents. All sites are hand-reviewed with unique descriptions of sites linked - but --- it is possible that someone could look at it and think it is a scraper site (it isn't at all but you can't always tell what other people see).

So far had no problems - G referrals and placements all same as ever. A great number of the pages still come up top in SERPs for the terms I target. Meta tags on some pages contain the word directory - not seen any adverse effects (....so far). I use description, keywords etc meta tags.

Software is bespoke by me....All pages are static .html generated from a db when new links are approved.

I do run adsense on a large number of the pages.

Site has been up and running on current domain since '98 - was running on a different domain before this.