Promoting through Directories
September 7th, 2007
Webmasters around the world have been bickering for months and more so now with the recent comments made by Matt Cutts, the infamous head of Google’s WebSpam Team about web directories. Just how worthy are these directories that a huge number of us submit to on a daily basis? Well.. the main focus according to Matt Cutts would be on whether the directory is of a decent quality. In a recent post on his own blog and on the Digital Point Forums Matt Cutts stated that from a point of view of a user, does the site in question air quality? - Whilst he didn’t go into too much detail on how to define quality he did mention the role of the webmaster running a web directory (or any site for that matter) how it is their responsibility as the site editor to ensure that the quality of the sites included (or the content) are of a high standard.
With these recent comments is it only a matter of time before a lot of directory owners start enforcing an even stricter inclusion policy to ensure that low or poor quality web sites are not included in their list of resources? - One web directory that won’t have this headache is the Site Sift directory which, since 2004 has been demonstrating exactly that - a strict inclusion policy. A lot of webmasters seemingly forget that its not just about making a quick buck and including every given web site that submits for inclusion, it’s about protecting and enforcing the policy that one presumes you took the time over legislating. Will this latest move by Google finally kill off the rogue webmasters out their defaming the quality of the web? Time will tell.
Entry Filed under: Web Directories
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