Do Google penalize you for having dmoz content even if you have dmoz permissions and promote them, or do they ignore the fact you have dupe content coz its dmoz'z?
There are so many sites with DMOZ content that there is a pretty good chance it won't help you much. If you have other additional content in combination, it might help some.
Dmoz clones barely register as directories any more on any search engine, I was told this when i took this up seriously last year, an some time ago, all the se's appear to have stopped reporting links from dmoz clone's So, it might be a bad idea
There was a time when this actually worked, and a few people made money from the idea, but I think that time passed about 4 years ago.
Oops, I was referring to directories but apparently I wasn't supposed too mention dmoz here? Sorry about that, I saw others post simular threads but no infractions, ah well, thanks for the answer anyway.
I would assume it is duplicate content, especially if left as is. Though, there is some leeway that can be done to alleviate such a penalty/filter... like a niche directory that only pulls from a category or two that's supplemented with submissions on top of what is already there. I think Alexa is still doing pretty good... but they are the only clone I've seen thus far that was even remotely worthy of a visit. You got an infraction? For the first post, or the one that said "thanks"? Either way, that's a bit odd...you sure it just wasn't bad rep?
It was an infraction for supposedly posting in wrong area! Does using Dmoz content... Jun 23rd 2007 6:37 pm Sep 21st 2007 6:37 pm 1 Thread Started In Wrong Category Strange when lots of other posts mention dmoz and never got a red, not to worry though, maybe the moderator who gave it didn't realize I was actually posting in the correct area as I was referring to directories in general.