Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'dmoz'

Debra Mastaler wrote has an excellent interview with the man in charge at DMOZ (Open Directory Project) at Search Engine Land named DMOZ: A Solid Directory Or The Great Pumpkin Of Search? It really goes into a great number of...

Posted on October 28, 2009 8:52 AM

Earlier this month, we polled our audience asking how important is DMOZ to your SEO strategy? As expected, most SEOs take the philosophy of "submit it and forget it." Why? Simply because to many SEOs, it is not worth them...

Posted on July 14, 2009 9:10 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if DMOZ is still relevant in 2009? DMOZ is a legendary web directory and has a ton of history. But is it still a critical or what it ever a critical part of your overall SEO...

Posted on July 3, 2009 8:24 AM

There is an excellent thread at WebmasterWorld on the topic of web directories. Moderator, incrediBILL, runs directories and he goes off on how many of the submissions are not able writing your titles and descriptions to be click worthy, but...

Posted on May 21, 2009 8:24 AM

A HighRankings Forum thread asks how does one distinguish between a good and bad web directory. Web directories are often the first step for many link building campaigns. The obvious directories that come to mind to submit to are dmoz.org...

Posted on March 26, 2009 5:10 AM

We all know about Google's latest change to the webmaster guidelines, where they removed directories as a good source of links. Having seen that, SEOs and webmasters ask themselves, if seeking links from directories is worth it anymore. A WebmasterWorld...

Posted on October 13, 2008 10:28 AM

Jeremy Schoemaker recently blogged that DMOZ may be acquired by the great guys at BOTW. While BOTW has no comment regarding the possible acquisition, personally, I think the BOTW guys would be the most ideal group to take upon this...

Posted on September 15, 2008 10:34 AM

On February 20th, I asked our readers if they thought a listing in the Open Directory Project would have a major impact on a site's Google ranking. The response was split down the middle. We only had 58 responses, which...

Posted on April 9, 2008 8:30 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has a Webmaster saying that a site of his recently was removed from the ODP. He said, soon after he noticed his rankings drop in Google. He wants to know if it can be related to the...

Posted on February 20, 2008 7:53 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums member asks how long a typical DMOZ submission takes to get approved. The answer is: it's incredibly unpredictable. Since DMOZ is a volunteer project and the editors are taking time to review sites, it can...

Posted on January 8, 2008 8:59 AM

WebmasterWorld members announced that the ODP has created a blog which is run by AOL staff. That's great, some say. They always believed there was an intelligent force behind DMOZ and hope it persists. They hope that a new era...

Posted on September 26, 2007 9:59 AM

Sphinn users report that the DMOZ homepage is missing from the Google results. While you can still do a site:dmoz.org search and find a few million results, searching for "dmoz" alone won't bring up the homepage. A screenshot, taken by...

Posted on September 24, 2007 9:02 AM

Jeremy Schoemaker, aka Shoemoney, posted on his blog that he's been extorted by a corrupt DMOZ editor. Without naming names, he was told that he'd have to pay $5000 to keep his website in the ODP. There's been a big...

Posted on August 28, 2007 9:00 AM

A High Rankings Forum member has run into a very strange issue on Yahoo. She has recently optimized her page and sees that it is updated in Yahoo, but not all elements seem to have been updated. I just completed...

Posted on July 3, 2007 11:09 AM

What would you say about a DMOZ directory that allowed you to vote and review the sites listed on the directory? A Cre8asite Forums thread discusses this question. Bill Slawski says that DMOZ has a long way to go before...

Posted on May 9, 2007 9:28 AM

Word comes from the forums that DMOZ is again accepting submissions for site inclusions in their directory. On December 20, 2006, we reported Open Directory Project (DMOZ) Coming Back From the Dead with the reopening of the editor area. Now...

Posted on January 15, 2007 1:44 AM

Over the past few weeks there has been some discussion in the forums about how the Open Directory Project has not been working at all. Yesterday there was an update posted on the ODP home page saying; Notice: Editing is...

Posted on December 20, 2006 7:31 AM