Changing Our Directory List

[jitendraag]

I was 'sort of' happy when Jayde.com's PR dropped from 6 to 4. iEntry runs webproworld and LOTs of article directories. Of all the people I expect them to have some quality directories.

[avvy]

Originally Posted by Gerding

include them all. i think they all get indexed with or without seo urls.

I agreed... and this time all will get indexed.

[snowbird]

Effective immediately I will begin including directories in the directory list that are not using mod rewrite (seo friendly categories).

Back in the day having seo friendly url's was important because search engines had a difficult time indexing non friendly urls. Times have changed and seo friendly categories are no longer required for the URL to be indexed.

I still believe that directory owners should use mod rewrite. To me it's seo 101. Having keywords in the category URLs is useful for directory owners and those that are listed there.

Thanks everyone for your input, PM's, E-mails, etc.

[jitendraag]

That's a good change you are introducing. I agree that directory owners should use mod rewrite but some new owners take time in learning this and their directory should be included in your list which has been a useful resource for a lot of webmasters.

[SEO Positive]

I am a newbie here, and have just seen the list of directories. I must say that it is a looong list. Thanks, I will start making use of them now.

[sewonijuleeni]

Wow , thats an awesome list,,

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Originally Posted by snowbird

I think they are going to find their traffic dropping off a cliff as their links get removed from directory lists.

Well then, what are you waiting for?
Or you want us to push them to the edge.



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Originally Posted by snowbird

Having keywords in the category URLs is useful for directory owners and those that are listed there.

Actually this is correct only as far as directories owners concerned.

Directories that using scripted links e.g. /cgi/link=1950 has been creating internal links to their own pages thus creating much more higher PR than they would get if they use keywords instead.

We noticed that when we restricted G. and Y by robots.txt to access our directory system files. Soon after internal pages dropped their PR from 3 and 4 to 0.

But hey, this is not about us, it's about Internet Community that we serve.
Oh well, at least free directories are doing that



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