Outranked by directory pages

[showtime]

Hi;

My website is in turkish and listed no:4 in "my main keyword" at google SERPs. No:1 listing for "my main keyword" is an one page website with high PR. The webmaster of this No:1 website makes 20-30 websites with relavent topic and link all off them to each other with keyword anchors in their main pages. I also report this brother linking to google as spam but no changes.

All other first 10 ranking in "my main keyword" except no:1 website and my website are directory categories which lists websites related "my main keyword"..

The 2 directory category pages that listed before me also have a less PR than my listing. But they are still higher than me.

Why lots of directory categories listed in top for just putting web site links to related topic?

And What you suggest to me to get over them?

Thanks

Anil

[tedster]

I'd suggest building strong pages for your customers, using all the basic best practices -- title tags, headings, links, good semantic mark-up, natural inbound links and so on. PageRank is one part of the algorithm, but there is a lot more.

I've actually tried to get certain directory pages to rank better (not my directories) and met with only limited success. I'd stay focus on building good pages for your visitors and one day you will beat any directory.

Also, you might consider whether you can place outbound links on any of the pages you want to see rank. There's something about a set of pages that are divorced from the rest of the web that doesn't work all that well.

[kaled]

Putting your keywords in outbound links can be helpful. You should also compare your use of meta tags with your competitors. Google may have other people convinced such things don't matter, but they do.....

For about a year, one page on my site was fluctuating between #3 and #8. It then fluctuated more wildly and eventually sank to about #30 and stayed there. I studied the competition and tweaked the meta tags as a result. The page immediately rose to #5 and has been stable at #3 for several months.

Of course, one page doesn't prove anything, but I've never seen any real evidence that Google algos are particularly clever. They are just a bit cleverer than the rest.

Kaled.

[soapystar]

Google seems clever with large amounts of content..its quite strange..the more content you have the more you leave yourself open to a filter for one thing or another..one page sites or lots of pages with no content continue to do well seemingly because the filters have nothing to work on....

[SFReader]

"The webmaster of this No:1 website makes 20-30 websites with relavent topic and link all off them to each other with keyword anchors in their main pages. I also report this brother linking to google as spam but no changes."

I guess I am missing something. Why would this be spam? It seems sound to me.

[soapystar]

It seems sound to me

lol!

[showtime]

hi

Dont you try to cheat google by Making 30 one page website and linking all of them to each other with anchor keywords to get PR?

is it normal or spam?

[birdstuff]

is it normal or spam?

It's spam only if the guy ranked above you does it.

[Stefan]

It's spam only if the guy ranked above you does it.

No, it's still spam. It is also a short-term strategy. If you have to fake things to do well, don't expect it to last - it won't.