3. Directory frenzy begun when Google announced his PR
mechanism, slower in the beginning but extremely
accelerated lately.
4. Keeping the same trend it's very accurate to say than in
6 months, with continuously improved automated tools
for submitting, the quantity of links to be considered by
crawlers will grow, artificially, extremely.
5. And the content itself will be almost the same while the
services provided by directories to visitors (others than
submitting webmasters) are practically null.
6. There is one axiom, one question and one estimation :
10. Will this happen on automated algorithmic bases or a
human rating will be involved ?
11. This question is linked to the definition of "bad
neighborhood" and "link farm". The algorithm will
decide that a directory has over a certain % links to "bad
sites" and penalize it ?
12. Let's take a look at DMOZ : based on this algorithm
Google will need to penalize DMOZ because is crowded
with dead links and forbidden content (due to corrupt
editors).
13. So we may think that a "kind" of human rating will be
added in the equation. Because it's obvious that an "AI"
can't judge the value of content, especially related to the
usefulness towards live people.
15. In my opinion all automated directories will be
penalized. If the submission isn't human rated or
approved than the directory will be blacklisted.
16. Also all the directories based on the same principles :
approving links without providing any content/human
intervention, will be penalized.
17. The "paid" directories, which contains a handful a
"selected" links, will not be penalized but their
usefulness as real traffic are questionable and ,
probably, the PR benefits will be degraded a little.
18. The "big" directories, counted on the fingers of a hand,
will stay with the same weight. Nothing new here :D big
guys are always friends.
