{"id":83,"date":"2007-06-01T00:09:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T06:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/link-farm-clone-directories\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T00:09:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T06:09:48","slug":"link-farm-clone-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/link-farm-clone-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm Clone Directories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of clone directories and directory link farms are being submitted to Directory Critic. Here&#8217;s what I class as link farms or clones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loads of directories on the same IPs<\/li>\n<li>Directories that have obviously had no effort at all put into them (some don&#8217;t even have a template or don&#8217;t even have the logo changed &#8211; how hard is it?)<\/li>\n<li>Category clones (basically cloning an populated directory)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These type of directories have little to no value for the users of Directory Critic. In fact, that have no value to the internet as a whole. Many of these directories will go straight to Google&#8217;s supplemental index and never come out.<\/p>\n<p>Another point to make is that if Google or other engines flag ones of these networks as a link farm and links to your site are consistent there is a chance that your site may also be flagged and it might effect your rankings.<\/p>\n<p>So a notice to the people who are doing this, I know who you are, and I won&#8217;t be accepting any more of your directories. I have a script now that checks the database for other directories on the same IP, and it&#8217;s built into the directory approval process.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone have any questions or problems with this email me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of clone directories and directory link farms are being submitted to Directory Critic. Here&#8217;s what I class as link farms or clones: Loads of directories on the same IPs Directories that have obviously had no effort at all put into them (some don&#8217;t even have a template or don&#8217;t even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directorycritic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}