Let dmoz be not a part for Google

[abeen]

till you wait and see your site getting listed in dmoz, you can optimize your site for search engines.

 

It has been more than 4 months and I am still waiting for dmoz to list my site..

 

Have Google been not supporting dmoz, dmoz would have been no where in www, no would have been hearing about dmoz..

 

 

abeen

 

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[nea]

Nobody ever knows what would have happened if something else had not happened

 

However, Google is not "supporting dmoz", they are one of the several hundred sites that use the data which is made available by us. They are absolutely free to stop using that data; we are not collecting it for the sake of Google or any other specific external site.

[shadow575]

Let dmoz be not a part for Google

So you wish it, so it shall be....Course DMOZ has never been a part of Google so it was granted before you wished it.

 

As nea said, Google is one of the many, many users of the data DMOZ produces. They may be one of the better known ones, but the two are not one in the same.

[jeanmanco]

My article Google and Dmoz: Are they in love? looks at the relationship between the two. It was updated today with a link to a transcript of Google's Live Chat Session yesterday, in which Matt Cutts answered a question on Dmoz.

 

Q: Thoughts on the strength of DMOZ?

 

A by Matt Cutts: If you can get a DMOZ link it's helpful, but there's no special "DMOZ boost" or anything like that.

 

He and other Googlers have said this before over the years, but I neglected to note exactly where. So I was stumped recently when someone asked me to point to an official statement on the topic by Google. I'm glad the question was asked once again!

[jimnoble]

<Waves to Jean >

[makrhod]

So does mak.

[jeanmanco]

Glad to sort of see you!

[End2End]

My Friend Abeen,

 

You need to understand why DMOZ has esteemed value in the eyes of Search Engines.

Anyone with money can buy thousands of links, which would look like natural links.

Anyone can get his website listed onto maybe 1000s of paid Directories.

DMOZ charges you nothing, they utilize people like us to review websites.

No money = No benefit to DMOZ to list your website.

 

Naturally, free submission with a highly reputed company holds some value.

 

Be patient, your website would be listed soon.

I would suggest maybe check for your listing once in a month.

You have paid nothing, so i guess you should not deserve anything.

If you get something, it's a benefit.

 

Thanks!

Vishal Verma

[jeanmanco]

Google staff have always stated that a link from Dmoz is worth no more than a link from any other site, such as Yahoo! Matt Cutts recently restated this, as I quoted above.

 

Matt has also made it clear that Google will discount paid links. Many paid directories were created simply to cater to webmaster demand for links to boost their site's Google PageRank. So Google is on the warpath against them. However Dmoz is not the only alternative. Yahoo and other directories in which a webmaster can pay for swift review, but which do not guaratee a listing, have not been devalued in Google, as far as I know.