Search Engine Roundtable - Latest Comments

Re: Google Checkout Fraud (Mostly Auto): Just Be Careful

dmac67 — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:42:43 -0000

Dooooooon't do it. In my email string with this guy, he said that he was being deployed to Afghanistan. At the below dealer trade in price he is quoting, it should have sold the day it went on Craigslist to someone right where the car is allegedly sitting. He shouldn't have had to post all over the country like Texas, or where I am in Missouri.

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Kunal N Shah — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:19:18 -0000

A lot of questions asked but no answers it seems. I recently hired an seo company http://www.agencyplatform.com/ to handle my SEO related activities. They had suggested comprehensive article submission to different sites. If the directories themselves are removed, I seriously think things will get much worse for all!

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Asif Anwar — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:06:23 -0000

I think you should use the directories listed in DirectoryCritic.com.

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Asif Anwar — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:05:13 -0000

Anyone believe that Link:Content Ratio is a factor here?

High Link:Content Ratio = Parked Domain
Moderate Link:Content Ratio = Directory Site
Relatively High Link:Content Ratio = Normal Commercial Website
Very High Link:Content Ratio = Article page or Blog

Re: Google Page Layout Algorithm & Penalty

Barry Schwartz — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:44:30 -0000

Thank you mr cheap cars.

Re: Google Penguin Update? Nope

Dewaldt Huysamen — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:38:10 -0000

Hey Barry Schwartz do you reckon if you have too many anchor text links with the brand name it will also be deemed spammy, this is if the brand name does not contain commercial keyword ex. does not contain seo but just the company name.

I have site that has over 75% of backlinks exact match seo as footer links or blog roll, I am now changing these anchor text to CompanyName. Should I only drop this to about 30% (SEO) anchor text links.

Also adding description to the wordpress blogroll links as then I believe google bot will see it as links surrounded with text, even though text is only seen by visitor when mouse is hovering over link?

Re: Authorship Rich Snippets Come To Google

Cheap Cars — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:34:40 -0000

Unfortunately, Google doesn’t allow linking Google+ business pages with website content in the same way that it links authors with their content. To Google, this initiative is all about connecting content with the real people who produce it. They’ve found that connecting content with authors creates greater trust. Letting businesses become an author
entity defeats the whole purpose of that.

Re: GoogleBot Caught Masking Around As An iPhone

bobchrist488 — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:18:56 -0000

Nice post.Really Good News that Google on Mobile SEO in future.

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Shazad — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:59:25 -0000

I don't understand why Google is removing most of the free directory sites, If Google continues to remove free directory sites, I will loose lot of back-links. Because I regularly do submissions on Free directory sites.

Re: Google Penguin Update? Nope

Usman Butt — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:22:45 -0000

If your website results are affected by Google Recent Update (Penguin)
contact us today for free website Audit and get your website back to
first page.

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Mark Hodson — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:56:33 -0000

If we started the web again from scratch, we wouldn't bother building 90% of directories. With good search you don't need directories.

Re: Google Mobile Sitemap Won't Show Smartphone URLs

Jens Husmann — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:33:52 -0000

I am a little confused about John Mueller's statement. I would have agreed in the past, but to me this is not up to date anymore in connection with the new Smartphone Googlebot-Mobile introduced here: http://googlewebmastercentral....
Consequentially, smartphone URLs submitted with a mobile sitemap should be indexed in the mobile Google index (and the normal web index) and show up in Webmaster Tools Mobile statistics. What do you think?

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Philippa Jane Norman — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:13:55 -0000

The question I want to ask is - How will this actually affect sites which are listed on these? Will they be penalised by Google for being on a site they no longer index or will they simply not count for link juice or nada (kind of like now anyway ;-) ?

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Dave Ashworth — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:04:54 -0000

I imagine any value that they do pass, would simply be wiped out with no penalties imposed

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Eric Muhanji — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:02:48 -0000

It’s about time. They never
made any sense other than for SEO link building purpose. They should also devalue
paid directories as paid links.

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

sachin — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:29 -0000

There are editors, who took fee for these dmoz lisitng. i have got 5 listing for my client in DMOZ. it is just a business. Infact the existing editors never want the new editor to come and eat their money. Editor intentionally reject the free submisisons and they have registered themselves on lots of freelancing sites where they specially browse those projects asking for dmoz listing and all. it is business they are doing.

Re: Google Checkout Fraud (Mostly Auto): Just Be Careful

Marineswife — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:46:11 -0000

The Camry is still for sale. Runs very good , no accident, rust or anything like that, maintenance preformed every 5k miles. The interior is leather and very clean (non-smoking).
The PRICE is $2200 and i wont negotiate it, I want to sell this car very fast due to some financial issues.
I also have to mention that i am located in Woodbridge, NJ but the car is ready to be shipped anytime and it wont cost you anything because i have a good friend who works for DAS and he will provide low cost shipping for us.
The shipping wont take longer than 3 days.

The year is 2002, 124,000 miles, front wheel drive, 3.0L V6 Gas, automatic transmission. The Clear title it will be shipped along with the car.

Let me to know if you are still interested.
Please reply!

Thanks
Jennifer Simpson Jennifer Simpson
She answered me and wanted to do the purchase through google pay, she lives in NJ and selling in East Texas Area with free shipping. Sounds off to me!

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

YDeveloper — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:26:52 -0000

If this is true, then what about the future of SEO, what about the quality directory like DMOZ and all that?

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

cutey — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:24:22 -0000

The problem I have with Googles recent anti low quality spam is, in a lot of cases they are removing directories, articles etc but paid links are always being left alone, which means as the sites making spammy low quality links go down, the link buyers go up and are rewarded.

Site wide blog links still seem to be working, why?

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

cutey — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:21:00 -0000

I wish they would, DMOZ either needs active un-bias editors or shutting down.

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

MicroSourcing — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:20:01 -0000

It's not so surprising because Google thinks half of these directories are sources of bad links. It's unfortunate because some online directories are actually useful.

Re: Google: Stuffing Title Attributes Is Sneaky

webmasterkevin224 — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:40:39 -0000

keyword stuffing is something all webmasters should refrain from doing. They would just be inviting Google penalization and nothing more. with penguin and panda updates, this is tough now more than ever.

Re: Lost? Google Mobile Phone Locator Will Find You

steve ho-peng — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:06:22 -0000

MY PHONE GOT STOLEN ON SATURDAY AND SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN A MESS, HAD ALL MY INFORMATION AND CONTACT ON THAT PHONE, IT WAS MY LIFE, PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME LOCATE IT.. BADLY WANT MY PHONE BACK..

LG - ANDROID / MOGEL - LG-970 / IMEI NO : 356772-04-615697-6, S/N: 107KPWQ615697

MY NAME IS STEVE HO-PENG
SEYCHELLES
E-MAIL : steve.hopeng@yahoo.com

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Tedel — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:57:36 -0000

I noticed the same last year, so I really took a deep breath and kind of foresaw that Penguin thing was coming sooner rather than later. What Google wants is to kill the artificial links a person can get for himself, so that SEO will "reset" or depend on just links a person cannot get for himself in any way.

I think Google is pushing too much their luck, lately. With their abusive new privacy policy in force as from March 1st, and DuckDuckGo, "the antithesis of Google", on the rise; people, specially web masters, will continue getting increasingly sick and tired of the big G. Do you imagine web masters dropping AdSense as a payback? Do you imagine "User-agent: googlebot" + "Disallow: /" in robots.txt files? If Google continues this way, I don't see it too weird now; the very opposite, I consider it feasible in a reasonable short term.

Re: Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?

Megan — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:25:21 -0000

hi,

sites like hotfrog won't be delisted though its a directory. however i have seen number of new directories have no to less index http://www.vmoptions.com/direc... the new ones.