Unfortunately Google did not foll for the trick and put the whole directory into the supplemental index only the main page was kept. I assume this is mainly due to low PR and thus all this pages with so much duplicate content (all seo web cms directories have the same structure) caused it to fall in the supplemental pages. The best thing to do is to quickly revise our strategy and get some unique content or boost the pr. I guess its easier to put/generate some content rather than start link building, but if both can be achieved it would be even better.

I'm currently working on one idea for scrapping the web for some unique content, but that theory is still to be developed properly and then tested. I'm really happy that we did not released the public version with that directory issue because at least now we can control the situation and it won't get out of hand to get us punished by Google for tons of duplicate content....

I remember a while back that one friend of mine was complaining that he got his website banned from Google because he wrote one web directory software that was abusing the DMOZ database and was generating duplicate directories with the DMOZ data. That script go so popular that on one Google update banned the source aka his website, and now 3 years later its still out. He totally abandoned the project and advised all people not to use this script as they might get banned also.

Now the situation with all this duplicate content somehow sounds really familiar and I'll have to act swiftly and add some links/content to remove the duplicate issue or find some way to scrap news sources for unique content and then post it as feeds on the directory - that's a popular strategy but does not really generate unique content and therefore its just a temporary solution. In our case we need permanent solution and that's what we'll have to device soon