Good Site Getting Shaft

I'm hoping that I can find an editor that will fix something for me...

I have a very large Long Island New York website listed in the DMOZ directory... http://www.longislandexchange.com

It holds 2 Yahoo directory listings and is updated daily....

It's listed in the the directory without the "www" in the url and it's really beginning to cause some pagerank issues with Google...

I actually spoke to someone at Google through email about the bug of trying to associate a website as on and the same whether the "www" is there or not....

But they responded by saying they are aware of the bug and are working on it.. My pagerank is being split in two ways becuase all my inbound links to the site are with the www - but the dmoz listing is without....

I feel that if it had the www that the dmoz direcotry listing would benifit me much more than I'm seeing now....

Hoping someone can fix this for me...

I requested and update through the update url request, but never worked out....

Can someone add the "www" in there for me?

Sorry, but as a general policy, URLs will not be changed as long as they work. If they cease to work or redirect, then they would be changed.

Since all the links on your site point to the www subdomain, I updated your listing to include it as well.

clasione said:

It's listed in the the directory without the "www" in the url and it's really beginning to cause some pagerank issues with Google...

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You can fix the Google issues yourself, unless you have a really sucky Web-hosting service. Set up a permanent redirect (HTTP status code 301) from the non-www address to the www address. This gets brought up every week in the Google forum at Webmaster world, for instance, so check over there or in a similar forum for the details.

(I see that DMOZ has changed its listing for you anyway, but this information might be useful to you later, and to others who stumble on this thread.)

ishtar said:

Since all the links on your site point to the www subdomain, I updated your listing to include it as well.

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Wow - that was really excellent of you.....

I expected some help here but that was more than I hoped for ( so fast )

I've been putting my heart and soul into that site for years now.....

I thank you very much.....

it's really beginning to cause some pagerank issues with Google...

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You posted here out of a pagerank issue? "Good site getting shaft"? Shafted sites are the ones that don't get listed when the site owner thinks it should be.

Since Google is such a major player in website traffic these days..... It was beggining to worry me that the site wasn't coming up listed in DMOZ on the Google toolbar....

I wasn't getting a directory tab.... but thanks to everyone here at resource-zone.... it was fixed......

Got my little green tab back..... and hopefully google and the rest of the internet world will continue to show me the benifits of having a site listed in the Open Directory...

Thanks again....