Sites that are using KEYWORK SPAMMING and still listed on DMOZ

Hi folks,

I have a legit site with no keywork spamming, etc however for some reason I cannot get listed in DMOZ. Maybe because there is no editor in that category and the only editor up the heirarchy has too many requests to tackle.

However, I was wondering how is it that sites that are using keyword spamming approach getting themselves listed, e.g. (Plz look at the bottom to notice the spamming)

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Regards,
Mans.

Does keyword spamming reduce the usefulness of those sites to the end user? If not, is there any reason for us to consider it to be a negative attribute?

The ODP uses human editors to create a directory that will be useful to other humans. We really aren't concerned with whatever SEO techniques a site uses (however mis-guided or underhand they may be) as long as those techniques don't get in the way of ordinary users using the site. We leave dealing with underhand SEO techniques to the search engines themselves.

Of course there may or may not be other reasons why those sites shouldn't be listed. Check out http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html which will explain various classes of sites that we don't list.

Finally, to answer a potential next question: we get a lot of suggestions from the public and there are only a finite number of editors reviewing them. Reviewing public suggestions isn't the only way to add new sites, and adding new sites isn't the only thing editors need to do to maintain the directory. It's therefore quite likely that any individual public-suggested site can take a long time time to be reviewed. I wouldn't assume that it's been rejected just because it hasn't been listed yet.

Nicely said, .