Dmoz isn`t Worth !
From last few month I`m constantly monitoring peoples thought on Dmoz Directory . The largest human edited directory , i`m sorry to say but it`s just isn`t worth !!
Just browse through any category , ANY! you`ll find thousands of webpages that isn`t worth to be listed. Say in web design section, you`ll find pages by kids who have made for just for fun on free site and got listed . And the usefull ? yeah they`ll get listed , don`t worry ! maybe in next 20 years they will.
So the so called human edited directory is Human edited , Right ? We are & know humans .Hmmm…I think I trust bots more now . One of my friend is tired of trying to submit a site for a year now , that site is just PERFECT for the category , it doesn`t use any advertisment or scam. but nope ! .
I personally tried becoming an editor , I agree I may not be fit the category , but when I tried they mailed me that I had used personal sites for advertisment !!!! I don`t know on what basis do they make you editor , may be how much you don`t know about the category !
I saw at a website corruptdmozeditor.com, in some case it`s purely money under table way .
If Google and Yahoo! like huge search engines were not supporting it , Dmoz would have been a history now.
September 28th, 2005 at 10:53 pm
I agree with your point, I personally haven’t stopped submitting the sites there but I have stopped going there again once submitted…
I had submitted my educational site http://www.tybcom.com there and also put proper description but someone added the site after a long time and that too with wrong description but now I am not bothered to correct them coz they take so long to change the text also (most times they don’t)
Same thing happened with my ex-company site
http://www.tajonline.comwe have made it kind of portal so I submitted request to dmoz to change description with the one I provided but till now they haven’t done so…its been more than a year now…
I feel that Dmoz guys have attitude problem…they think that they are on top….
I have seen many indian guys posting in their forums with salutation like Dear Sir, and all that shit…
Sir, my foot…f*** off…if you don’t want to add my site…I don’t care…my site will be on top even if you don’t add it…
Deep
September 29th, 2005 at 8:44 am
I had payed a search engine optmization person from a forum to get my friends forum listed . He did it for ome buck :)
but I think now he is not adminisatrator any more.
September 29th, 2005 at 9:09 am
He He i`ll tell you something real good , instead trying to get your url`s get listed , try becoming and editor there .
It`s a totaly corrupt place . :)
Better secure some place before dmoz is dropped .
Tich: I agree that if google weren`t supporting it , it would be dead by now .
September 29th, 2005 at 9:23 am
Ya, I agree with chris, I wonder who uses DMOZ just to make a search in it’s directory. It is just it’s PR-9 and Google back that has kept them alive.
Once a month i get 1 hit from DMOZ :)) I think bots give more hits than that :P lol
..:: peace ::..
jeba
September 29th, 2005 at 10:47 am
BTW.. DMOZ is owned by AOL ..
About listing in DMOZ, it is now lacking in some real volunteers ..
September 29th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
One more thing for some reason their forum has stopped giving replies for the submission status.
I demand…. DMOZ …. stop hording site URL’s(lol)
October 21st, 2005 at 5:25 am
Nice read Chris, however i wont go as far and say it’s not worth it.. just submit and forget ;)