Affiliate site breaks all the rules and gets in!

[Guest Rainbowsauce]

The following website: http://www.queerposters.com

is listed in the google directory under:

http://directory.google.com/Top/Shopping/Niche/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/

 

Now I know the google directory results come from dmoz or am I mistaken? This site is purely an affiliate site - has hidden black text and links at the bottom of the pages and has pages and pages of nothing - yet it has a huge pagerank and is in the directory - how on earth did this site get where it is

[brmehlman]

Re: Affiliate site breaks all the rules and gets i

 

We deleted that from dmoz three months ago.

[Guest Rainbowsauce]

Re: Affiliate site breaks all the rules and gets i

 

The point is, it got in in the first place didn't it?

[nea]

Re: Affiliate site breaks all the rules and gets i

 

There are many reasons why a site that shouldn't have been listed today may have been in the past. Guidelines change. Websites change. And editors make mistakes. Any or all of these reasons could apply to the site in question.

 

It's really difficult - not to say impossible - to discuss the directory as it was. The only thing we can say anything about is the state of it now, and today's guidelines.

[Guest]

Re: Affiliate site breaks all the rules and gets i

 

We have done a LOT since Google last updated. At some point it'll show up, and maybe all of our hard workers will get a nice standing ovation