DMOZ, Search engine spam and back link

One trying to get a site listed on DMOZ knows hoe tough it is, not less than a battle. Some web developers have been submitting 4 times over moiré than two years with site not being listed. The reason behind this are so many such as editors not having time to maintain category or they dot even care about new sites trying to link. They even have constant technical problems which made them loose several months of submissions. DMOZ doesn’t admit to the fact that they had technical difficulties but many of their recent issues which have been reasoned as responsible for delay of listing on site have been released.

These are some reasons why faith of many web developers was lost in fine directory. While working on a key phrase for state wide health insurance one will notice anomaly in results at SERPs. Most of sites were listed between PR 4-7 and very few or only single was at PR 2 site. A quick analysis of sites back links exposed the pattern of how they manipulated their results.

The website should follow standard header, top navigation, left navigation and right content. The tricky method is to have keyword in header in instead of company name and company name was listed under left navigation in small text. This devious site when submitted to DMOZ under a key phrase got accepted in site listing. For instance an Alaska health insurance company had keyword in header and company in left navigation; it was included in regional health insurance page.

One may need to ask know how much a DMOZ listing can differ or affect a website. DMOZ is an old authority of web archive with its first listing at January 25, 1999. DMOZ is not just one site, anyone can take up data from directory and post it anywhere and this will end up in dozens of links from one submission.

Being a good netizen or internet user and pure user of Google one may find spam in documenting at DMOZ but they have been updating companies in less time. They have dropped from position 5 to 8 and will continue to drop at least few more pages.

Many of web developers make at least an attempt to get listed on DMOZ and fortunate ones get listed in first click only and some have made repeated trails but have failed to be listed on one of oldest site DMOZ.

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