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My site is regularly crawled by GoogleBot. But recently I have noticed - it happened yesterday also - that GoogleBot is not crawling the Links Directory maintained on my site. Has anyone else also noticed this. Has Google found out a way to filter out links directory.
I certainly hope so... if its the type of "Links Directory" I'm thinking of.
"Has Google found out a way to filter out links directory."I certainly hope so... if its the type of "Links Directory" I'm thinking of.
Yes, i have seen nileshes site .. and u r right about thinking that. I too hope so thats the trend google will pick ..
However, most of the pages showing for site:domain.com -qwertyw command do have full titles and caches. The significance of this is hard to tell though since the content of the domain is under ten pages... while the bileous link directory section amounts to over 23,000 pages! Only about 1000 show, so perhaps the other 20,000+ would all just show up as those URL-only links.
Someday Google will take out this trash, but as of today it still LOVES these link directory based sites.
How did you name your directory? Is it hosted on your workspace?
does the Page contains link only or have quite an amount of text?
Several hours ago one of these sites that employs one of those bileous link directories moved ahead of me for my number one keyword...
I have noticed it too .. be it florida, new york or texas update .. they just keep rising. In my case .. a particular site uses the directory technique and it has about 4 to 5 domains (not with duplicate content but you know its him) .. they all have reciprocal links with each other with all kinds of anchor text links and all of them rank at top for my industry related *keywords*. ATM, this technique is at boom.
Since all the content seems to be sourced from the same place, you'd think someone at google would be able to figure out how to apply some sort of bayesian analysis to identify pages using this obvious data source.
Also, aren't these "directory" owners opening themselves up to massive litigation threats from copyright infringement? If so, why are they still so prevalent after 3 months? You'd have thought they'd have been forced out of business by now.
Incidentally, I assume no-one is going into more detail about this to try to avoid encouraging others to jump on the bandwagon. Please let's keep it this way!
Avoid naming your links pages links.htm or whatever underlying technology you are using (file extensions). Avoid naming your sub-directory /links/. I wouldn't be surprised if the term links is now classified as a poison word.
/bookmarks/
/favorites/
/friends/
/partners/
/resources/
You'll need to be a little more creative in developing these types of directories. Unfortunately many of them have a similar footprint and can be filtered out easily. Its now a matter of getting around the filters. The problem is, it may be a short term strategy because at some point, the filters catch up.
P.S. From my perspective, there are more than enough link directories on the net. ;)
Okay :-)
