DMOZ Paid Inclusion

I am wondering if DMOZ will offer paid inclusion like Yahoo sometime in the near future.

I would be interested. Woul you?

 

Well what sort of price range would you be willing to pay? I doubt I would pay anything to be listed.

 

no ..........

 

Many editors would leave, I would be one of them and I have been an editor 10 years.

Why would we want to charge for our hobby? We do not set out to list sites for the benefit of site owners, we are more interested in those who want to search using collated, categorised links. Charging would imply that we were primarily interested in listing sites for owners.

 

I agree with Anonymously, if Dmoz started taking money for adding sites, the integrity of the service would be lost.. having your domain in Dmoz stands for something today.. please don´t ruin this.

 

I think that in and of itself could be a good enough reason for AOL to consider it. Though I'm not really understanding how you will leave, you have never been an editor as far as anyone here can tell.

 

Not interested.

The links are worthless.

I might consider submitting my websites if they paid me $5 apiece.

 

Its the fastest growing directory on the web by a substantial margin. Where did you ever get the impression that it was slow?

 

I will be interested, but there are 2 possibilities.
1. If the price is high like yahoo.com I can not afford it for each and every website I have.
2. If price is low like other website directories, there will be no value left in the links because all websites will rush into it.

 

If it is a perm listing, i may be tempted.

 

If you read the guidelines you will see that no site is ever guaranteed a permanent listing.

If you pay one cent you are likely to get banned for life, so if you are sufficiently interested in a DMOZ listing then why would you risk getting your site banned for ever?

When is that likely to change? When the Pope becomes Jewish.

 

I think DMOZ should keep itself the way it is - Commercialized listing like Yahoo's is just ruining "all the fun" in building a better site so a DMOZ Editor is convinced to add the site.

I do admit - getting my site listed on DMOZ is darn difficult...

 

I would pay up to $50 if needed

 

Well, many people pay 299.00 for a Yahoo directory listing.

What if DMOZ were to become a 501C3 Non-Profilt, charged half of what Yahoo charges and used the money to better itself and charities?

 

I think it's a fine idea... but don't expect them to ever even consider it. DMOZ is a relic, and will likely never change.
...To be quite honest, it's already quite irrelevant as an SEO/traffic tool...

 

The bottom line would still be that the integrity of the site is damaged, since a lot of results would end up listed, even though it is not of the right quality to be considerd when no money is involved, this would end up lowering the value of finally getting your link in Dmoz.

 

I think this thread is the answer, but not, it's the question
anyway, I like to pay $200 if there is a price

 

And don't forget offering to pay will likely get you banned for life too!

 

From the site itself, the editors, the editors forum, and personal experience... "It may take years to never for an editor to review your link submission." Its not like they hide this information if your read their FAQ or editor forum replies. Then number one excuse they use is "what do you expect from a volunteer service"... My answer... I expect a lot more than not encountering a single person in real life over the past 6 years to get a link into DMOZ and I attend most of the Internet Retailer trade shows and get to ask groups of 500-1000 industry experts at a time.

don't worry... I already learned that this forum is a reputation front for dmoz editors. I have copies of dmoz and yahoo dir. Yahoo is still bigger by a lot and they charge for listings. So I'm not drinking your koolaid. Where did you get your data?

 

Download successive DMOZ rdf dumps to get the numbers.
DMOZ adds >10 times the number of new sites than the Yahoo! Directory does in a month. (count the numbers and dates on the new listings page @ Yahoo!)