3 years old site – 336 entries in DMOZ ?????

This is nothing against the site (www.***.com) or the site owner.

*** I am not sure it is OK to publish the site here.

I am having hard time to get one listing in DMOZ but how come this site has 336 entries. The site is not that old either (about 3 years).

No wonder it has Goggle PR 8 and Alexa traffic rating 23** within 3 years.

Is there any technique/procedure involved to getting listed in DMOZ that I am missing?
Any comments/suggestions/advice?

 

Difficult to comment one way or another without the link.

 

Hardly a secret just point to number on the list since current one is little out of date and I don't want to search which domain is it.
http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/dmoz-listings.html

 

Listes as rank 1272, certainly showing less Listings...

 

If it is a huge site with a much unique content on multiple topics then such listings are appropriate. If this is not the case and you think that the site may have has been over listed by an editor with a conflict of interest file an abuse report and someone will look into it.

Yeah. Create a huge site with a much unique content on multiple topics.

 

Well, I don't see any need to keep the URL a secret: www.city-data.com

 

Very good advice....does it give you guarantee to get 350+ listing in DMOZ?
I don't think so.....

By the way, this is not a unique content or idea site. Anyone can make this kind of site within weeks. Go to census.gov and other government websites, download the data and you have a great site like this.

And dream about having google PR 8, 350 listings in DOMZ, 2300 Alexa rating and $$$$$$$ in 3 years.

 

Not sure about the 3 years thing, but steady work and a team of people can attribute to that kind of success for the site.

 

There are lots of sites considered relevant to multiple categories. Lonely Planet it another one. They are talking about Wikipedia mapping. Produce a site with rich content on a diverse range of topics and there is no reason why you can't produce a site that gets green tagged - i.e. deeplink at will.

 

LOL, that was so funny. make a site by copying information from different source and nice DMOZ editors will give you 350 deeplinks. You just forgot to mention that this person has to be an editall or Meta for this to happen.

Thanks again for the laugh, have you seen any flying pigs lately?

 

It collates data and puts it all in one place, relevant to a locality category. Saves listing all the different sources separately so it's efficient. It looks OK to me unless there is something better out there. An editall or above needs to give it a green tag but I don't know if the site is green tagged.

 

So you mean it is the same thing as topix.

 

Topix? Don't get me started on Topix. Many of the Topix links I came across had no relevance to the locality they were listed in. So I removed them. That one was an AOL decision outside any editor's control, led to the resignation of an Admin, and wasn't exactly popular amongst DMOZ editalls and metas.

 

They still have it in the directory. Though it may not be popular to editalls and Metas, Regional editors still list them. I will give you 1 sample link. My hometown.http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Maryland/Localities/O/Odenton/

 

They were all added by robot initially. Editors can remove them if they are not relevant to the locality they are listed in. I don't know enough about Odenton to know if the Topix link does return stuff of local interest. There was no systematic review of the links for relevance - just if you come across it, check it. AOL pay the bills, they can spam their own property if they want to.

 

I'm sure Topix has some editor connections in Dmoz. As well as the other large Listed Sites. Just seem fair.

 

It has the very finest, and not exactly secret, connections. Everything else about the story I am saving for my autobiography screenplay.

 

You don't have to be from Odenton. You just can read the articles and they are not our town news. Glen Burnie, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County and Maryland in general. Those are same articles in localities that have topix.

So generally the editors are puppets top to bottom.

 

AOL own DMOZ. AOL can add whatever they like to DMOZ. They can change the rules, close down the servers, sell it, whatever they want. When you sign up as an editor it is something you accept, or resign. As you know they very rarely intervene directly but Topix was one of those occasions. It created some controversy (to say the least) and more than any incident I have been witness to in DMOZ proved beyond a doubt the integrity of the vast majority of senior editors which, as far as I am concerned, shows those claims that the senior editorship is rife with corruption to be without foundation. They would not have stood up to AOL then turn a blind eye to systematic volunteer misdoings. They would also have been labelled as hypocrits by AOL which was under heavy fire.

 

Any update to DMOZ opening its feedback forum again?