ZEUS directory losing PR

[AthlonInside]

Although I am not using Zeus myself but I have found some of my link partners who use ZEUS has all the links page grey out. No PR!

I think Google is taking action against directory/links generated by Zeus. Anyone noticing the same here?

[Total Paranoia]

I thought that had been happening for a while now.

[hakre]

i heard the name zeus several times now. what kind of directory is it? where do i find it?

[jeremy goodrich]

hakre, do a search on Google. :) Or use the site search [searchengineworld.com].

Basically, it's a directory that is automatically built from recipricol links, and the software creates it for you, etc. Spiffy, but dangerous stuff.

[Big_Balou]

hakre,

It is not a specific directory but software used by some sites to compile and manage links.

[Philosopher]

Zeus is a software program that automates link campaigns.

It crawls the web and finds sites matching your criteria, then can generate a directory comprised of those sites for you to upload to your site.

The problems with Zeus have been happening for a while, but I generally see the problems happen with sites that use the default settings and page names.

Sites that change the default page names and customize the directory look seem to not have many problems (though I haven't been following this for a while).

[carlr]

Hi there,

Well a couple of the top listed competitors in my field are using Zeus and they still do very well.

I'm not so sure why Google would penalize sites built this way.. Is this spam? I'm not so sure

[Total Paranoia]

There is only one safe way to get links imho and zues is not it.

I don't know much about zues, but I think it uses resources that google would rather free up for their users, so maybe this is why they penalise users of zues.

[Philosopher]

To be fair, Zeus is actually a good program for finding sites and it doesn't use any of Google's resources. Unlike email harvesters that run a search at an engine then visit pages, Zeus simply starts at one page and begins crawling from site to site by way of links.

Much of the problem with Zeus, as with lots of programs, stems from people using the default settings (anyone remember the blueline graphic from the old WPG?).

I've used Zeus successfully in the past without any problems, but I always customized everything (that being said...I only use it to find sites now, the emailing and building of the links pages are done by hand just to be safe).

[Phil_S]

Change the index page url from it's default, I think it's "thethemeindex.html" or something like that and remove all links back to zeus website. And you should be OK.

Their website should tell you how to do this.

I like ARELIS better. (hope I can say that)

[jbauder]

As stated Zeus is a software tool to automate getting reciprocal links. They also claim to automate creating a directory of links for your site and tracking linked sites to make sure the links to your site remain up. It is 1 of 3 that I am aware of, the others being Arelis and Link Partner Pro.

The issue is "how" the tool generates the sites to approach for exchanging links, my understanding is some do Search Engine queries (which google frowns upon from a resources perspective) and some crawl the web themselves which shouldn't bother google, from a resources standpoint.

Zeus also offers on their site a "collective" where you can enter a phrase and look for related sites that exchange links.

I did quite a bit of checking the other day and did NOT see many sites using Zeus that appeared to have been banned for using it ...but as philosopher suggests maybe using it as an identification tool only makes the most sense

[Phil_S]

All the sites I've seen that keep the default url have a PR0.

The sites that change the default url to something else normally do good.

Why don't you change the default url to "index.html"

yoursite/link/index.html