In a recent thread titled, "Should the ODP/DMOZ Use NoFollow Tags" at WebmasterWorld, a very interesting question was raised by the members. After a lot of useless submissions overwhelming the editors at DMOZ, will the inclusion of nofollow will stop these superfluous submissions and make the editors' lives easier?

Most of the members think that it won't, as Nofollow doesn't even stop spammers. It is not yet clear, as why would DMOZ, which purports to be a quality directory, wants to work with nofollow.

Open Directory announces the launch of a brand new DMOZ blog which will provide all the nitty-gritty on DMOZ information, insight, and updates.

The blog was created to:-

• Provide authentic messages about DMOZ and the efforts of our volunteer community.
• Highlight enhancements, both current and future.
• Allow editors to showcase their categories and describe, in their own words, why DMOZ is so important.

Just yesterday, the DMOZ homepage was missing from SERPs and now DMOZ launches its blog. The purpose of this blog is to

1. Provide authentic messages about DMOZ and the efforts of our volunteer community.
2. Highlight enhancements, both current and future.
3. Allow editors to showcase their categories and describe, in their own words, why DMOZ is so important.
4. Recruit new editors. If you have access to the Web and are passionate about a category, find out how to apply.

Business.com Could Hit Jackpot on Auction Block, reports the Wall Street Journal in reference to the domain going on sale for a possible sum of anywhere between $400-$500 million.

Back in 1999, when entrepreneurs Sky Dayton and Jake Winebaum bought the domain name, for the then highest ever price (for a domain name) of $7.5 million, they were laughed at. The tide surely has changed with the domain's current price.

Barry Schwartz has pointed to a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums where an aggrieved website owner has complained of hijacking. The owner of www.wenlockbasin.com has reported that his website just disappeared from the search results, even when searched with the domain name. The directory Hotfrogs replaced the site in the SERPs of Google.

As moderator Mcanerin explained:

Hotfrog appears to link to websites using a redirection script issuing a 302 redirect. For new/low ranking sites, this can result in what is called a "hijack".

There is good news for all the webmasters and SEO firms as they can again submit their site to DMOZ. For the past four months dmoz was on a hiatus. dmoz is the largest human edited directory of the web. DMOZ had previously suffered tarnished reputation as its editors have often been charged of showing favoritism and do not take sites who are in competition to their sites. However, a DMOZ listing stilll holds value as Google and some other search engines show some results from the DMOZ directory.