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What Will Be The Quality of DMOZ If Nofollow Is Added?

October 6th, 2007 | 2,097 Views RSS Feed

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.

DMOZ Launches Its First Ever Blog

September 26th, 2007 | 1,630 Views RSS Feed

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.

Official Launch Of DMOZ Blog: Source For Information, Insight & Updates Of DMOZ

September 26th, 2007 | 2,100 Views RSS Feed

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.

Business.com Goes Under The Hammer, Bidding Starts at $400 Million!

June 22nd, 2007 | 2,337 Views RSS Feed

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.

UK Directory Hotfrog Hijacks Site With 302 Redirect: Google Exploited

March 28th, 2007 | 3,248 Views RSS Feed

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:

DMOZ Accepting Submissions Again!

January 15th, 2007 | 2,719 Views RSS Feed

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.

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