Could you please have a look?

Hi friends,

Could you please do me a favour by looking at my site: http://www.answers.co.in/ ?
It is supposed to be a DMOZ clone, but from my college here, I am seeing only a domain parking page. Google's cache also seems to contain my previous domain parking page
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:xrv_gegOngkJ:www.answers.co.in/

However, if I look at the site through Proxify.com, it appears normal.

Could you please have a look?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Ajay.

P.S.: I am in India.

 

I see the clone, give it some time to propagate and for google to catch up

 

Thanks, no the site has already been indexed in Google.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.answers.co.in
It is nearly a month old. Guess there had been some problem with the name servers last night.'
Am still waiting to see the 'correct' site from my college here.

 

I see a DMOZ clone.

Now tell me this: I have never understood the point of these. Why would anyone want to use your DMOZ clone when the <shudder> original DMOZ is still around? What is the point?

 

Specially since they are almost impossible to get indexed... I have 2 clones, one is showing all supplemental pages, the other one is showing 600 lousy pages after several months...

Oh, and I built them thinking I could get good backlinks from them... until I realized that it was just a waste of time and I should go hunt for real backlinks...

 

Well, there are some advantages. If you get some traffic, you can start taking in submissions on your own and dump DMOZ (or atleast, part of it), but that would require quite a lot of work.

On a shorter term, once you get some PR, you can sell text links. Mine makes 2-3$ per day on Adsense, which is good enough for me, especially considering the little effort that I had to put in.

But of course Google might ban DMOZ clones, so why not make hay while the sun is still shining?

 

As minstrel asked, why would someone even visit a clone when there is a "real" site? I sure would never visit any wikipedia clone site and go directly to wikipedia.org

I don't get any traffic on my clones, heck, I don't even have adsense on them, they are just lying around on my server gathering dust...

 

Yes I agree, no one would visit a DMOZ clone. You will have to be lucky enough to have search engines throw up your site in their SERPs, the likelihood of which increases if you have a country domain and a chap from that country come along and searches "pages from that country" alone.