Dmoz doing a bit of SEO? All URLs 301'd to www.

Anybody else noticed that Dmoz has 301'd all of the non www. URLs to all of the www. URLs? This is pretty big and very wise of them I would say.

 

Definitely a must do Dave, good pickup.

 

I'm betting this post will be posted by newbies at lest once a month for the next two years...

 

Well, they will need something to replace all the "ZOMG DMOZ don't gots no PR" threads that have popped up every month or so for the last two years

 

Is it just me or is that not something that should have been done at the start?

 

They are just catching up with the rest of us... give them time

 

Too true !!!!

 

I don't understand this comment. I had to click through about fifty empty categories in your directory before I found a site. I was starting to get cramp in my wrist. And even then it was one of those sites for students to plagiarize their term papers.

The ODP has nearly 5 million sites listed. How exactly do they need to catch up?

 

How many of these sites are valid and up to date I would ask you.

DMOZ was a great great idea when it started but they have lost the plot IMHO.

I certainly was referring to the fact that a canonicalization issue should have been dealt with at the start of the project not as the first poster is pointing out, whilst there are already 5 million sites in its directory.

 

You completely missed the point didn't you...

It's not the SIZE that matters in this case, it's how you use it.

 

Yes he did miss the point... he has some catching up to do as well

 

That's a good step forward! Good find mate

 

Yes , sorry old chap, my fault entirely. The medication I took for my RSI after spending 5 minutes clicking around your directory trying to find an actual site must of have affected my judgment.

From now on I will using your snoopdirectory as my first port off call for all internet searches.

 

You must be a DMOZ editor...
I'm done with this thread... so long...

 

You are still missing the point. This thread is NOT about DMOZ having more spam, porn, real estate, and viagra sites then any other directory, it's about the 301 redirect from dmoz.com to www.dmoz.com. The fact that pctec has not bothered listing 100,000 CNN news articles or does not have 25,000 TOPIX links is NOT the point...

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Not to start a fight or anything but I thought snoopdirectory is actually not a bad directory, certainly in comparison to many others. It has plenty of internal PR which most have not so in fact in my category I am thinking of putting one in for review.

The directory may not have huge amounts of sites but it certainly has quality ones.

 

The statutory links at the bottom of pages of websites using DMOZ
data all point to dmoz. org and not to www. dmoz. org

It may have been better if they had applied 301 in the reverse direction

i.e.

301 www. dmoz. org to dmoz. org

 

Indeed, but I think they did it this way because they are not SEO experts, do not cater to google, and whatever other fabrication I can think of...

It was to keep in line with the rest of their advancements. This redirect was a MAJOR step in the right direction... by doing it incorrectly, they have made that step not so big.

 

The authority Google site links will sort them selves out with time, the problem is that I would imagine the vast majority of the links to Dmoz went to the non www. one, PR should be transfered but at the moment shit loads of Dmoz pages are de-indexed from Google costings website owners a nice authoritative link.

 

Great remark. If ODP improved too fast, you wouldn't have anything to write about in this forum.

Seriously, being an ODP editor I was really disappointed that technical (AOL) staff, haven't read http://no-www.org but then that site isn't listed in ODP