DMOZ Strikes Again

[easydesi]

DMOZ importance in Google's ranking is great ( I have a site and I is listed in DMOZ, and without any other BLs rank #4 /1 mil)

[vistadivine.com]

Well I agree with that one that there's really a good impact on your ranking with a listing in Dmoz but it also depends upon the competition you are in if you are in a very competitive market then just 1 link from Dmoz is not enough for you, you still need to build lots of links.

Akash

[easydesi]

Yes but this is an indicator that a link in DMOZ is a must-have.

[vistadivine.com]

Well you cant say must have because you cant do anything else being patient because now we all know that how much time it takes to get listed in it.

Akash

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by easydesi

Yes but this is an indicator that a link in DMOZ is a must-have.

Respectfully, I 100% disagree with this thought.

A nice link to have? Yes.
A must have link? No way.






Just my

[easydesi]

I speak for myself. I know what did dmoz for my rankings.

[vistadivine.com]

Originally Posted by easydesi

I speak for myself. I know what did dmoz for my rankings.

Yes its good that it improved your rankings but still its not a must have link you can still improve your rankings without any listing in Dmoz.

Akash

[solidghost]

I didn't know that they can remove the listing once they have added it.

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by Cricket

Respectfully, I 100% disagree with this thought.

A nice link to have? Yes.
A must have link? No way.

I totally agree Cricket and I dont even bother considering DMOZ when working on my client site. Four of our sites are in the top Google ranks without the help of DMOZ.

*edit* oh and happy birthday!

[Julie]

Who cares about DMOZ?

[vistadivine.com]

No body who know what really it is all about but many who are not aware of it.

Akash

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by PaulX

It seems that one of our tools got a non-standard response and as a result the site was moved out of the public view for an editor to look at the reason.

I took this comment at face value, but it appears that was a mistake.

The v7n.com home page is still not relisted. And my blog was also removed at the same time.

The bias of DMOZ is as plain as day, despite the best efforts of DMOZ to be less than transparent.

DMOZ should take a lesson or two from me.

http://directory.v7n.com/cgi-bin/sea...?keywords=DMOZ

Five listings for DMOZ. Why? Because I list sites based on their merit, not on what I think of the people who run them.

Of course, DMOZ responds with the old and tired line, "we only list home pages, and not more than one site in a network, so if people can get to internet-marketing-blog.com from v7n.com, we ain't going to list it".

Of course that's horse pucky.

DigitalPoint has 15 listings. Websitepublisher.net has 11 listings. SitePoint has like 20 listings.

Isn't that called hypocrisy? Either that or just plain dishonesty.

[Cricket]

I am not finding the blog, or the homepage of V7N but the forum is definitely listed.

[John Scott]

Yes, that one has been there for a while. They delisted the home page and my blog at the same time.

[Cricket]

Just curious, do the editors have access to DMOZ again yet, or are they still locked out of everything too?

[John Scott]

Still locked out, I think.

[jim_noble]

If you check out post 24 of 17th October, I said

v7n.com was unreviewed when it became unavailable - standard quality control procedure with no hint of corruption AFAICT.

It's been relisted and should show up on our public facing servers within a few days.

As you already know, three days later, the editor server became unavailable and, soon afterwards, the public servers fell back to showing an earlier version of the directory - being preferable to nothing at all.

Once things are fixed, v7n.com should reappear (hopefully). If it doesn't I'm sure you'll mention it here .

[John Scott]

Jim,

I think it was more than a coincidence that my blog and v7n were removed at the same time. And why was my blog removed in the first place? Have you looked into that?