The Avivadirectory Story – Let’s Learn from It
How would you feel if your website was suddenly penalized by the Google due to violation of policies? Would you be surprised if suddenly your good PR plummets from a reputable one to nothing? What if your website is no longer being listed at the top search results when your strong keywords are being searched? What would you do knowing that Google has penalized your website severely? Well, this happened to one of the greatest web directory in the internet and if you haven’t yet read or heard the story of Avivadirectory, keep on reading.
Avivadirectory.Com a Brief History
Avivadirectory.com, a general web directory, was established in 2005, and soon it became one of the most popular web directories in the web. It is considered one of the strongest directories offering fast reviews and great quality listing and backlink at a reasonable price. But in 2007, Avivadirectory, together with other directories and websites, was penalized severely and was almost completely de-indexed by Google. Now of course you could guess why such a prominent directory along with others was penalized by the Google, simply stated, the reason was violation of Google Policies.
How Did Avivadirectory.Com Recover?
Amidst the penalty given by the Google, Avivadirectory gradually recovered, but its recovery was not that easy, it did many changes and eventually won back the respect of the Google. The list mentioned below were the things Avivadirectory did to remove the penalty imposed.
1. No More Paid Links
2. No Sponsoring
3. No Linking To Bad Neighborhood
4. More Quality Content
5. Reciprocal Linking?
6. No Cross Linking
7. Contact Details
8. Too Many Directories
9. No Redirection of Expired Domains
10. Nothing To Do With Top Hits and Latest Links.
Please read the full story of Avivadirectory.com here “How You Can Get Your Google Rankings Back” a lesson from one’s mistakes that we really can learn from extensively.
Currently Avivadirectory.com has a PR of 3/10 (at the time of this writing) and having a strong position in SERP (search engine results page) with Google.
