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Originally Posted by Ohnsorg
handling ever growing masses of information, Google & Co. have been, gladly, forced to be more selective during the past Years. Just linking your site with someone else does not longer prove to be effective. Backlinks to a Site must today be combined with 'searched for' information, when placed on other Sites, to be PR -effective. Anything else is a waist of time.
Lately, a growing number of Sites are found, reproducing popular content, b.Ex. Script Programmer Newbie Q&A's, they show 1 or two Images, lots of Text with textlinks, Comment-Fields, etc., all done to seek Google's interest, BLOG-Stylem nothing else.
Totay, one must 'show off' to be recognized, like in real Life...
good luck
Ernie
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So did these Google changes effectively put web directories out of business??
Should people cancel their subscriptions to the directories now?
I just don't understand how some businesses can get ranked high when the nature of their business is not conducive to fresh, exciting, rock-star content. For instance with web development, how many new things can someone blog about or write articles on? The funny thing is that I see sites listed on the top page now that clearly haven't been updated in months, which defies the "freshness" theory Google put out.