Well, I am sure this is not a good news for directories owners and personally, I am not happy with it either. Google just started manually penalizing web directoreis by removing the sites from search results. Some big names such as Alive, Aviva, Big Web Links, Directory Dump are all affected and when you search for their trade mark names, they are completed out of the search results.  It is still not clear whether Google will devalue the directory listings.

I am just glad that since my SEO Friendly Directory is still new, Google probably won’t notice it. But certainly I have to be careful. What I need to do is to add more quality content to my visitors who are mainly seeking for techniques and new strategies of search engine optimization.