The Kings New Clothes

It would be nice if administrators and editors alike would be honest. There's obviously a lot of people out there who have had / are having bad experiences with DMOZ and yet the answers they get back (if indeed they do) just make excuses. Why not call a spade a spade and say whilst DMOZ is good in some aspects - in others its just plain Rubbish

For example our company (Shades of Egypt) was listed in DMOZ but having expanded greatly we opened a new site (One World Tours). We tried to get the new site listed (1,200) pages of very relevant info - no joy (no shock there). So we contacted DMOZ and said, look, Shades of Egypt is really being taken over by One World now - same (expanded) service, same company, can you remove SOE and replace with OWT - guess what, they removed SOE - no OWT replacement.

From personal experience - the total lack of courtesy to even acknowledge e-mails etc is terrible. I just think its a great shame Google still gives weight to DMOZ. There’s no question in my mind if DMOZ was a going concern (business wise) - they would be Bankrupt by now !

Stuart

So we contacted DMOZ and said, look, Shades of Egypt is really being taken over by One World now - same (expanded) service, same company, can you remove SOE and replace with OWT - guess what, they removed SOE - no OWT replacement.

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Are you sure about this, it seems that the site was replaced according to the update request.

If you emailed an editor directly, it is to be expected that they didn't reply. Editors have been harrassed in the past (to the point where their families have been threatened) and we recommend all editors never to expose themselves to that sort of thing by emailing submitters. Sad but true.

Big thanks and apologies - our site has also now be updated

So having complained, I definitely now take my hat off and say thank you for sorting this out.

Stuart

Slim,

A big part of the "problem" people have with DMOZ/ODP is of their own making. They see DMOZ/ODP for what they want or think it should be instead of what it is.

The Old Sarge said:

Slim,

A big part of the "problem" people have with DMOZ/ODP is of their own making. They see DMOZ/ODP for what they want or think it should be instead of what it is.

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Very well said Old Sarge....

Many misconceptions are made to what Dmoz truelly is...

Its NOT a traffic portal...though compared to other directories it does manage to send a few hits here and their to some listed.

To myself...i see it as an "Authoritive Directory" that can help SEs locate and
MAY provide a little help in google search results and provides so called bragging rights that you made it in a directory thats very hard to get listed in.

Now thats my take anyway...
Im sure Dmoz editors can add a few more details to better explain what Dmoz has to offer.

thx
malcolm
Biz-Giant

The thing is, ODP doesn't offer anything to website creators. And anything it does for them is an accidental consequence of the real ODP mission. (That doesn't mean doing something for a website creator is evil. It just means you shouldn't be using ODP chattels to do it with.)