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Search Engines are biased towards paid directories. Agree?

by Sup3rskunk
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I think that...
Paid directories are cutting into search engines profits. Regardless of SEO, it is in the search engines best profit maximizing interest NOT to rank your site high. For some competitive fields, I think that the ranks are being manually adjusted and not based solely on formula. This IMO is somewhat biased.

What do you think?
#agree #biased #directories #engines #paid #search
  • Profile picture of the author CCarter
    Certain keywords are manually edited and even some have gotten "locked down" due to security concerns, so yes manual editing of the SERPs happens all the time.

    Here is an example keyword that went into "lock down" mode - Notice that before "lock down" the keyword's results were relatively fluid in the top 1-20 positions, now, not so much:

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  • Profile picture of the author Sup3rskunk
    Thanks!

    > "locked down" due to security concerns

    can you give a sample keyword?
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  • Profile picture of the author stevenhendricks28
    Originally Posted by Sup3rskunk View Post

    I think that...
    Paid directories are cutting into search engines profits. Regardless of SEO, it is in the search engines best profit maximizing interest NOT to rank your site high. For some competitive fields, I think that the ranks are being manually adjusted and not based solely on formula. This IMO is somewhat biased.

    What do you think?
    I haven't experienced something like this. Even i had get past the ranking of the top paid niche directories for my keywords.What are the competitive fields you think that this is happening?
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  • Profile picture of the author EugeneWHZ
    The main goal of SEO as well as any other kind or type of marketing is getting more and more visitors relevant to your site and potentially interested in what you are selling or offering. In case with paid directories - you can not only improve your SEO - you also can get traffic directly from directories and I think that is something we need to remember about.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Originally Posted by Sup3rskunk View Post

    Paid directories are cutting into search engines profits.
    How? They're not direct competitors to Google because they don't offer anything similar. The paid directories often rely on Google traffic as much as the next guy, and might be part of either Google's internet tracking infrastructure (Analytics/Fonts/etc) or enrolled in their advertising network.

    Originally Posted by Sup3rskunk View Post

    Regardless of SEO, it is in the search engines best profit maximizing interest NOT to rank your site high.
    Not necessarily. It would be in their best interests to not rank any major corporation high because they've got deep pockets. If a small-time business owner is not ranking top on a competitive keyword they're likely not paying the Adwords price either.
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    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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