Directory Updates
As I finish compiling the sheet on which directories pass PageRank, I have been getting a lot of questions lately with the simple question, “What is going on with DMOZ?â€. I wish I could give you a straight answer from them, but they don’t respond to emails or phone calls. Personally, I haven’t had a submission accepted in over a year, and others that I have spoken with have had a drought that is longer. Now, if top search engine marketers can’t get in, what does that say about the small business owner? Of the 20+ DMOZ editors that I have corresponded with over the years, none of them are still editors – they have all left. So, I went through my logs and searched for DMOZ referrals to my main consulting site for this month. Zero referrals. I expanded the log for this year and DMOZ has sent a whopping four referrals this year. That’s it, just four. In 2002, we had 768 referrals from DMOZ for the year. I have checked dozens of other domains we manage and the trend was very similar.
It is clear the use of DMOZ has fallen off. Since DMOZ is next to impossible to get into, I will have in my directory guide that will “replace†DMOZ with a handful of smaller directories which will give you the same link popularity and link popularity collectively without the headache and stress of getting listed in DMOZ.
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