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Web Directory FAQ: Frequently asked questions regarding directories

December 20th, 2009 by dan / 2 Comments

Question Man

In the last fortnight or so a few of the newer members at the Info Vilesilencer Directory Forum has been firing off questions that I believed were elementary, but which on closer inspection have probably never been answered with any authority or clarity.

So I took it upon myself to build a Web Directory FAQ to answer the most common of these questions. Many of them were posed by just one user, but they are representative of probably half a decade’s worth of similar questions that directory owners have had.

Questions include:

- What is an SEO friendly directory?
- What is the difference between a directory and a link farm?
- What is editing?
- What is editorial integrity?
- What constitutes a spam listing?
- What is the flower test?

All these and more are being answered with clarity on the Web Directory FAQ. The FAQ itself is still very much under construction as we take the questions posed, and collate like questions and formulate useful answers and solutions. It’s only a week or so old, so bear with us as we take the time to answer the questions.

Also, because Info Vilesilencer’s very existence poses many questions, we’ve included an IVS FAQ to cover those frequently asked questions about Info Vilesilencer, being SEO Friendly, the free directory list, niche directories, paid directories and other questions regarding the site.

If you have questions to add to either FAQ please ask them in the appropriate threads which have been linked to in this post.

Reader's Comments

  1. Chad Walls - Tutor Guy

    2.6.2010

    My question: Is whether three way linking is worth doing? I have received emails from persons interested in exchanging three way links. I have participated in this once to discover that the links I provided were superior to those that were reciprocated and the party providing the links didn’t seems to have much knowledge of SEO (i.e. adding 40 links in one day to one of my sites).

    In addition I wondered if Google and most search engines look for theses types of junk sites, label them, and don’t’ allow links from these sites to provide any weight. My thought is if I can view these sites as relatively unimportant and of poor quality then I am sure someone from Google long ago would have added an algorithm to their page ranking system long ago to ignore links form these sites.

  2. dan

    3.6.2010

    Directories shouldn’t be engaging in 3-way linking if that linking circumvents the reviewal process.

    I think you’ve answered your own question about 3-way linking for the purposes of artifically boosting your site in the SERPs. It’s a bad idea. Why? Because first off you do not know who you are linking to, and secondly you end up providing them a better link than you receive.

    My own philosophy regarding linking is that exchanges of any kind are a bad idea, and that really you should only be linking to websites that you believe are worth visiting. i.e. You are essentially *voting* for that site when you link to them.

    Google probably does weed out junk link-exchange sites, you’d think they are clever enough to do that. They would also weed out the link farms that are masquerading as real directories. However, good directories will always be considered a good source of a link. Why? Because a human behind that directory will review a website for possible inclusion. If it passes muster then it will be added, and people can see that when sites are being rejected, the ones that are listed must have some worth or value. Even Google would attest to that :)

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