I have viewing how dmoz is operating , It seems it is so much hard to get a link out here. I can bet few DP Members are having better directories, may it be small, but they are growing & are giving traffic to other users equally. Can any body guide me - Is it worth to put a link in some body dead for just PR. Looking forward Roxy
In my opinion no directories are really better then any others... though some offer something others don't, and that can certainly be a bonus. DMOZ offers two things that many other directories can not offer. The generally Higher PR, and then the ODP aspect of getting listed in one == getting listed in several others (many with PR themselves). The above is weighed against the horrible chances of getting listed. Either way though, it's certainly worth the 3 minutes it takes to submit. If you get listed, you get listed in all the clone sites. If ya don't get listed, you only wasted a few minutes. Q
Best way to get into DMOZ is by somehow becoming an editor of a particular section that you are interested in. I've heard that it is often too much of a pain to get into DMOZ, and that your time is better spent elsewhere.
DMOZ is still pretty popular. If you have a good site, my feeling is it will get in eventually. What's the worst thing that could happen? You submit your site and it's never listed. So I think it's worth a shot.
Consider this as a possibility: Google is using DMOZ as a canary to spot spammy sites. Not the only way Google has of course, but one good way. How? A Google insider is a meta-level DMOZ editor. That gives them access to APIs on the DMOZ research machines. So they can and do regularly trawl all the DMOZ logs for sites that have been submitted and have been rejected. They feed that data back into Google's ranking algorithms, and the sites take a dive. Is that possible? Yes. Is that likely? Well, it's possible....Just ask yourself why Google keeps a copy of the Directory at all it it is not as bait for spammers. Is it paranoid? Not by the usual standards of theories about DMOZ. So, submit a sub-guideline site and get degoogled. That's the worst, surely.
i dont believe dmoz is dead . they have different criterias while they are accepting a site . their criteria is not your google page . they will not care , if you have pr 9999999 web site their criteria is not your visitors . they will not care , if you have 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 visitors/ per day they will not care your alexa rank , they will not care , if you are inside alexa top 5 etc etc etc
seo and pr should be ignored but DMOZ is suppose to be built for surfers and if surfers visits in mass certain website (and this website has no free porn, warez or some other junk ), then it listing it should be priority for DMOZ, it would look very silly if somebody is looking for news websites at DMOZ and CNN isn't listed, I doubt that surfer would ever return to DMOZ and form opinion that is yet another outdated directory (or one which charges ridiculously high fee to get listed so nobody use it)
Don't worry Ivan, CNN is listed at http://dmoz.org/News/ Also see http://dmoz.org/News/Online_Archives/CNN.com/ A little behind but hey, why should they get special treatment. In fact rumor is, CNN, AOL, Netscape and DMOZ are all owned by Time Warner. One big happy family.
Actually - a company can only suggest it's main website. Editors have the authority to list multiple websites for a company, as well as deeplinks, if they add value to the category.
i tried to submit to dmoz but there survieces are always close, Why I dont know but i hope some day i will submit there too.
Apparently, they don't even have to add value if it's an adult site - especially one owned by an editor. *cough* phonemistress *cough* *cough* jezebel *cough*
Yeah, I see the CNN pages are still there, and the first one I clicked on http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/05/02/bt.alitalia.flights.reut/ still has the ¨page moved¨ message on it.