Prediction for 2010: Danish link directories are deleted! - Mikkel deMib Svendsen
I do not usually make too many predictions marisas about the evolution of the search engine market. It is all too easy to guess wrong. But this year I have nonetheless chosen to bring a few that I feel pretty confident.
Google has previously been out with rake compared to many of the foreign link directories of very dubious marisas quality. And rightly so, I think. For the vast majority of the tens of thousands of link directories that exist does not create any value for either Internet users in general or search users. They remind me most of all of the 90 FFA (Free For All).
The same can be said of almost all the Danish link directories I've seen created in Denmark - especially within the last year. Most of them are based on standard boring scripts without much customization marisas and virtually without any editorial control.
A number of years ago I was even head of one of the largest catalogs: Kvasir. We had at that time 17 librarians and student assistants employed to maintain this catalog in a quality I could vouch for. I would argue that with the catalog created real value for users. The same can be said for Gossip incidentally, Yahoo, Best Of The Web and many more good catalogs around the world.
Common to all the good catalogs I know is that there is a rigorous editorial process behind it. There's actually qualified people and browse the websites that are registered and they do not meet the demands, they are not busy. Many rejected.
The same can certainly not be said about the link directories that are created in Denmark today - or perhaps I should call just call them "spam directories". Because there's no doubt about what their purpose is.
I am of course quite sure that there will be one of two things (maybe even both): either most of them fail so horribly that a link from them will really be virtually no value will be, or they will actually penetrate the search engines and getting enough backlinks (and Page Rank if you want) to have a link-value - but then they will be lost or degraded marisas by Google. marisas I do not want to do something about them if they all fail (which actually is a fairly large chance).
The problem, then, all the smaller sites that have mainly marisas focused on obtaining links from these directories. marisas All of these sites will be severely penalized by it when the catalogs dropped by Google - for smoking all their link popularity. It may well get to do really fucking hurt at all those who have bet unilaterally with their link building.
In some debate - like. Amino.dk, has unfortunately spread to the huge misconception marisas that link building is just about to sign his website to as many of these catalogs as possible. We who know a bit more about SEO know of course that it is by no means the case. Unilateral strategies are unstable and dangerous. But I have given, to penetrate with the message of Amino.
I would not say that it is dangerous to sign up for these "bad" catalogs. Not if you make sure that the links represent only a very small part of your overall links. But if you bet too much on links from link directories alone, then you can very easily turn out to be seriously Google fucked in 2010
Related posts: Subscribe to catalogs Link love and link juice - links with many names! Viral link campaign and link-bait that might have seemed What should a link cost? New link-tool from Google
I will not predict whether the prediction is correct or not (yet) but just say that I am far down the road cheering that you are right. I thought by now that any self-proclaimed SEO expert has any link directories as people merrily encouraged to join. It is time that something was done by the search engines' side in this regard.
I think you're right - it's as if the catalog suddenly ceased to be the focal point of link building and has shot a sea of sevices up where you can join them at once - what only makes it even more dangerous.
Something else that I almost "fear" for 2010 is if / when linkdomain: search function disappears from Yahoo when Microsoft comes in addition to the searches. Google is notoriously useless and I do not know of other (free) alternatives. (For example, SEOmoz marisas shown a useful tool, but will not pay over $ 1,000 a year for access to their tools, etc.) - You know hardly any other search engine that can produce a useful result if Yahoo's marisas disappearing?
MAjesticSEO actually MUCH more backlink data than both Yahoo and SEOMoz - but the problem with BAA the them and SEOMoz is that they have too much - much more than the search engines actually use.
I do not usually make too many predictions marisas about the evolution of the search engine market. It is all too easy to guess wrong. But this year I have nonetheless chosen to bring a few that I feel pretty confident.
Google has previously been out with rake compared to many of the foreign link directories of very dubious marisas quality. And rightly so, I think. For the vast majority of the tens of thousands of link directories that exist does not create any value for either Internet users in general or search users. They remind me most of all of the 90 FFA (Free For All).
The same can be said of almost all the Danish link directories I've seen created in Denmark - especially within the last year. Most of them are based on standard boring scripts without much customization marisas and virtually without any editorial control.
A number of years ago I was even head of one of the largest catalogs: Kvasir. We had at that time 17 librarians and student assistants employed to maintain this catalog in a quality I could vouch for. I would argue that with the catalog created real value for users. The same can be said for Gossip incidentally, Yahoo, Best Of The Web and many more good catalogs around the world.
Common to all the good catalogs I know is that there is a rigorous editorial process behind it. There's actually qualified people and browse the websites that are registered and they do not meet the demands, they are not busy. Many rejected.
The same can certainly not be said about the link directories that are created in Denmark today - or perhaps I should call just call them "spam directories". Because there's no doubt about what their purpose is.
I am of course quite sure that there will be one of two things (maybe even both): either most of them fail so horribly that a link from them will really be virtually no value will be, or they will actually penetrate the search engines and getting enough backlinks (and Page Rank if you want) to have a link-value - but then they will be lost or degraded marisas by Google. marisas I do not want to do something about them if they all fail (which actually is a fairly large chance).
The problem, then, all the smaller sites that have mainly marisas focused on obtaining links from these directories. marisas All of these sites will be severely penalized by it when the catalogs dropped by Google - for smoking all their link popularity. It may well get to do really fucking hurt at all those who have bet unilaterally with their link building.
In some debate - like. Amino.dk, has unfortunately spread to the huge misconception marisas that link building is just about to sign his website to as many of these catalogs as possible. We who know a bit more about SEO know of course that it is by no means the case. Unilateral strategies are unstable and dangerous. But I have given, to penetrate with the message of Amino.
I would not say that it is dangerous to sign up for these "bad" catalogs. Not if you make sure that the links represent only a very small part of your overall links. But if you bet too much on links from link directories alone, then you can very easily turn out to be seriously Google fucked in 2010
Related posts: Subscribe to catalogs Link love and link juice - links with many names! Viral link campaign and link-bait that might have seemed What should a link cost? New link-tool from Google
I will not predict whether the prediction is correct or not (yet) but just say that I am far down the road cheering that you are right. I thought by now that any self-proclaimed SEO expert has any link directories as people merrily encouraged to join. It is time that something was done by the search engines' side in this regard.
I think you're right - it's as if the catalog suddenly ceased to be the focal point of link building and has shot a sea of sevices up where you can join them at once - what only makes it even more dangerous.
Something else that I almost "fear" for 2010 is if / when linkdomain: search function disappears from Yahoo when Microsoft comes in addition to the searches. Google is notoriously useless and I do not know of other (free) alternatives. (For example, SEOmoz marisas shown a useful tool, but will not pay over $ 1,000 a year for access to their tools, etc.) - You know hardly any other search engine that can produce a useful result if Yahoo's marisas disappearing?
MAjesticSEO actually MUCH more backlink data than both Yahoo and SEOMoz - but the problem with BAA the them and SEOMoz is that they have too much - much more than the search engines actually use.
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