I’m sure the wound of getting hit by Google PageRank is still fresh in most of the bloggers. The blogger’s who used text-links-ads, pay-per-post, LinkWorth and other link related services. How can we forget that Google hit the PageRank slap to the link directories too!
Well, today I spotted a perfect example of Google’s hypocrisy and I.e. their own Google Directory. Google’s Directory stands tall at PageRank 8 and all the links posted in that directory have Do Follow links.
So, the question is that why didn’t Google punish their own directory, when will Google stop bullying other companies and publishers who are trying to earn money from other sources ?
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Hmmm. Some things we can do about it.
Blog about it. :) You already did.
Try contacting Google with this question.
1. Contacting driectly (not sure how) might not work out due to our ‘lowly’ profile.
2. Contact someone who has had correspondance with Google. Someone from Google Blogoscoped, may be?
On an afterthought though, is not the directory sourced from DMOZ?
There would be conflict of interest only if they sell positions on Google Directory and do not ‘no-follow’ them.
I think it would be the same if they were selling those links, but the directory is created by Google and you cannot buy to put yourself there. The other directories charged people so that they can place their links and get some PageRank juice.
Personally, I think the whole paid links should be discounted. It’s not fair to get ranking power by buying it.
now why don’t we find an alternative to google and sideline them like micrsoft…we know that microsoft has lost heavily in many monopoly areas…if there is an alternative to google…then it is time to say goodbye to google…
@ Vyoma : Nice thing. I’ll try and contact philip
@ Aseem : Well, there were many directories who were not selling links and still they got slapped by the Pagerank
@ Rajesh : Well, it’s just not so easy. We need some really good search company which can come up with really cool search engine. Then only we’ll be able to think of switching over!