My point is that no one is being penalized for a catagorized directory. Not me, not the industry, not any other websites that uses this strategy. Despite the propoganda that is regularly being shot througout this forum by Mr. Hawley and his lot, this works, and is winning the serp wars. Anyone that dosen't think so, needs to roll up their sleeves, head for google, and smell the coffee. Don't take it from me, please. Do your own searchs, and find out for yourselves. As I stated before, I used to believe just like Mr. Hawley, until I went out there myself and did my own research by evaluating the SERPs. It dosen't matter what I, or MR. Hawley thinks. It only matters what google thinks, and what they reward. Google rewards backlinks, they respect catagorized link, or resources directorys, and thats that.
Mr. Hawley, all we have is "research", pertaining to google. We study what works, and what dosen't. You may not like the news, but shooting the messenger is not going to change anything.
I ask you for the third time sir, where is your research that disproves it?
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You may think i'm a link farm, but what is important is that google does not, so that arguement isn't impressing anyone. And who are you to decide for my users what sites they may want to visit? Casinos order business cards too, so do their users, and my having a link there is just good business, besides the added benefit of giving me one more "vote" to pound my competiton with in the SERPs, but thats extra and not the reason for building it. My catagorized directory is not built to "solely" aquire backlinks to improve my ranking, like you'd like to believe. It is built to get my business out on as many other web sites that use the products and services I sell as I can find. The link is in a "catagory" that is "relevant" to it, and thats good enough for google, so frankly I suggest you read the guidelines again. If you think thats bad business, you just don't understand economics, or basic promotion. Thankfully, google does.
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