Moderation of phpLD Forum Clearly Not Impartial

[MGS]

Originally Posted by dvduval

As for your question about phpLD directories being targeted, my answer would that only those that were involved in "families" of link selling were targeted, and this case, it was not limited to sites running the phpLD script.

I see what your saying but unlike rainchild I'm not going to lose interest, I have a whole year to learn and listen. Wouldn't it be fair to say that whilst it may not have been 'entirely' phpld that got penalized by the mad machine Google, the phplder's to coin a phrase were at least 99. something % targeted or am I wrong?

-MGS-

[rainchild]

You still haven't answered the question. Why cant you admit that you knew that people were asking questions? You also know why they were asking the question didn't you? But what I dont understand is why this does not worry you? How much is their business worth to you? Are you really prepared to sacrifice the future of what you have built up for their continued support?

Why can't you shake that shite off your shoes and become real? Put it in your pipe and smoke it, if you can but I am done in this thread.

Originally Posted by rainchild

But let me ask you again, were you not aware of the threads questoning whether phpld was being targetted? Why cant you give a straight answer to a simple question? Do you know of any phpld directories that were hit in the first wave of penalties? Was it all of them or was there the odd exception?

[dvduval]

Originally Posted by MGS

I see what your saying but unlike rainchild I'm not going to lose interest, I have a whole year to learn and listen. Wouldn't it be fair to say that whilst it may not have been 'entirely' phpld that got penalized by the mad machine Google, the phplder's to coin a phrase were at least 99. something % targeted or am I wrong?

-MGS-

Yes, you are wrong on this. Much larger sites were hit, such as some leading blogs, newspaper sites, and other sites that were involved with selling text link ads (hundreds of sites). And of the directories that were hit, link bidding directories were hit the worst, and of the link bidding directories that were hit, I haven't found any that were running phpLD. There were certainly some phpLD directories (so non-bidding) that were hit by the penalty, but it was the ones that were buying and selling links, often involved with text link ads (or similar) or bidding directories.

Now that phpLD has a bidding model available (which by the way represents a VERY small part of our sales), could these be hit in the next update? Quite possibly they could. But fortunately we know much more about what brings about penalization, and as I said before, I have discussed this with many phpLD users, and warned them about what could happen, as well as opened up new options (expiration, depreciation), in hopes the model will improve (such as similar to what Yahoo does now).