Changing Or Removing My Site from DMOZ

Good Evening,

After e-mailing an administrator I noticed that he prefers to be emailed only through the forums. We have been trying to remove our site <URL Removed> from the dmoz directory for some time. It does not appear that our category has an editor and while we love DMOZ we dont feel that being in the directory is of benefit to our company at this time.

I am hoping someone reading this post can be kind enough to remove our listing <URL Removed> from dmoz.org.

Have a wonderful weekend!

We provide a service for surfers, not website owners. For that reason alone, we don't remove viable, listable websites from our directory on request.

Note that, in my experience, many removal requests are bogus.

After e-mailing an administrator I noticed that he prefers to be emailed only through the forums.

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I'm here to offer non URL specific advice. It follows that it will receive a wider audience and be searchable if it's in the public facing forum. Also, this forum and private emails will not expedite URL specific requests: If they did, we'd soon be inundated and diverted from the activities that we primarily volunteered for.

bschusterman said:

we dont feel that being in the directory is of benefit to our company at this time.

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That is good as DMOZ has no intention at all to be beneficial to websites or their owners.

If there is a mistake in the listing of any website (including one you own or are involved with in other ways) you can make an update request throught DMOZ and an editor will check if the request is valid.
Go to the category in which the website is listed. At the top of the page you will find a link called "update listing". Fill in the form and we will do the rest.

Good Evening,

Thank you so much for responding to my comment on the message board. I have requested link removal by using that process before I have also requested pointing the link to the appropriate domain which would be either <urls removed as we do not want them in the forum> however the domain it is pointing to now is not correct.

Both requests were placed months ago. Both requests have been ignored.

To be clear the preference is removal from your database as you may not be aware but many sites (I have a list I will gladly share with you) copy the dmoz directory which creates useless and low quality links to our site which in turns causes us to have poor search engine rankings.

Any assistance you can provide would be immensely appreciated. As it does not appear that anyone has been addressing my concerns or is in charge of editing this section regardless of the numerous requests.

Once again your assistance would be greatly appreciated and would help a small business immensely.

In addition this request is far from bogus you are welcome to email me at <email removed for privacy reasons- we will never contact through email> and I will respond immediately.

We never do remove websites on request.
For the same reason that we do not list websites on request.
Only the content of a website determines if a website will be listed or removed
There is only one sure option to get a website to be removed from DMOZ, remove it from the Internet.

Update notifications will always be looked at. But an editor decides if the change is correct and needed.
Changing an url for instance will only be done if the old domain has a clear indication that the given url is the new domain.
We never trust only the request. We have had enough people trying to change a listing for egoistic purposes.
If the old website has no reference (either text or auto reroute) to the new one than we won't change the url.

I for once looked at possible requests based on the urls you provided.
I can tell you that those two urls (in their current state) will never be listed.
And that the current listed url will not be changed into either of them.
So please stop sending update requests

Good Morning,

Kind of like hotel California. Once your'e in you can never leave.

While dissapointed with your response I understand your desire to maintain the integrity of DMOZ and will drop the issue of link removal through these channels. However I am concerned with your response that a URL that matches a company name is a more sub-par link that a URL that matches the name of our company which we have not used in over 5 years? One would think the domain with the matching name is the correct URL to have dmoz point to.

Separately, how do you reconcile the fact that dmoz shares its database for a fee to multiple spammy websites that have caused the dmoz brand and name to suffer to the point of practical irrelevency, with the statements that you wrote above.

I am a victim of dmoz as over 75% of the bad backlinks to our website are coming from dmoz spammer sites.

I was hoping for some compassion.

the fact that dmoz shares its database for a fee to multiple spammy websites

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You are mistaken. There is no fee for importing our database.
See http://www.dmoz.org/rdf.html and http://www.dmoz.org/docs/en/about.html

bschusterman said:

However I am concerned with your response that a URL that matches a company name is a more sub-par link that a URL that matches the name of our company which we have not used in over 5 years? One would think the domain with the matching name is the correct URL to have dmoz point to.

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Nope, we link to where the content is.

Separately, how do you reconcile the fact that dmoz shares its database for a fee to multiple spammy websites that have caused the dmoz brand and name to suffer to the point of practical irrelevency, with the statements that you wrote above.

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I know that there are websites that do not follow DMOZ rules for the use of our data. But none of them is paying a fee. All our data is free to use.
I never have heard anything about the DMOZ brand suffering from such behaviour. But I never visit SEO / Wemaster forums where all kind of will stuff is imagined.
And as far as I know websites are never punished for being linked to from such websites. I know that Google just does not count links from such websites that use dMOZ data. But that is not a punishment for the website being linked to.