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i don't think that you will panelized for that coz lots of sites getting listed in paid inclusion and doing well.
now a days i read some were that google is planning to give penalty on link selling and link purchasing but i dont think that will be done
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As Matt Cutts puts it:
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I'll try to give a few rules of thumb to think about when looking at a directory. When considering submitting to a directory, I'd ask questions like:
* Does the directory reject urls? If every url passes a review, the directory gets closer to just a list of links or a free-for-all link site.
* What is the quality of urls in the directory? Suppose a site rejects 25% of submissions, but the urls that are accepted/listed are still quite low-quality or spammy. That doesn't speak well to the quality of the directory.
* If there is a fee, what's the purpose of the fee? For a high-quality directory, the fee is primarily for the time/effort for someone to do a genuine evaluation of a url or site.
Those are a few factors I'd consider. If you put on your user hat and ask "Does this seem like a high-quality directory to me?" you can usually get a pretty good sense as well, or ask a few friends for their take on a particular directory."
As far as the toolbar PageRank, I definitely wouldn't expect to see it in the next few days. Probably not even in the next couple weeks, if I had to guess.
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August 8th, 2007, 08:46 AM
Is Best of The Web Directory a "paid link"?
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