It almost looks like there was an exception to the duplicate content filter if directory links were involved.
Looks to me like Google is simply applying the same standard to directories as they do on every other site that has faced a duplicate content penalty.
They must be able to tweak it by industry?
The exact same thing has happened to affiliate sites, and in the real estate industry last year.
Strangely we have not seen it happen to books, shareware and music sites ... yet! |