Hello, I just saw that DMOZ have finally updated their RDF dump (A few months since last time). I have a couple of questions in that regard (I am included for the first time...) 1. How long should we expect it to take before google imports this change to their directory? A week, A month, 6 months... ? 2. People that have been listed for the first time before, will you get a noticable boost on the SERP's? And sorry for cross-posting, first posted this in the google category before I realised there was a whole section for Dmoz! Regards
Google has been known to go a year or more before bothering to update their directory clone... so in the immortal words of the ODP itself, "up to two weeks or more".
Waiting a long time is normal for anything DMOZ related. DMOZ is obsolete and this is one of the reasons Google needs to ditch them and come up with something more modern. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1468017
I am actually a fan of DMOZ as it is obvious to me that Google at the moment at least is not up to beating spammers with their algorithms. The time will come undoubtably, but we are not even close to that time yet. Spammers do control many/most competive keywords at the moment and a manual directory is the way to go untill the algorithms are advanced enough...
well dear DMOZ fan let me to tell you a funny thing , at this moment and most probably nowhere on closed future dmoz it's s u c k s just because it's full with crap sites .... because the editors chose to list craps on the directory it's normal to lose from hes importance , they spoiled the name of the directory . It's nothing to do with what Jim call '' rot link '' those spam sites was added here like they was on the past and they never changed the owner or the scope . The algos waited so much to '' beat the spam '' can't be made because peoples love '' short way's ''
Actually, I am wrong, the "official" time frame for getting a site reviewed is "it may take several weeks or more before your submission is reviewed". (Source: dmoz.org/add.html) Though it does certainly imply your site WILL be reviewed, which kind of excludes it NOT being reviewed so, so much for editors not using the "suggestion pool" which by rights is NOT a queue... a queue implies that the site will be reviewed in an orderly and assumably timely manor, lol.
Ah, but that is when the rats are coming out from the hiding and you have to read in between the lines. For DMOZ Editors may doesn’t necessarily implies it will, for them it’s free ticket to land of maynot and neverwill. Is they want to make it clear what they’re intent to do, then of course dmoz.org/add.html would say will but may excuse is keeping back door open for them to abandon and ignore submissions without being hold accountable . Tricky dicks I must say those who wrote these Terms fastreplies