What role does being in DMOZ play in rankings?
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What role does being in DMOZ play in rankings? I see some websites in my niche ranked No. 1 and the only reason is because they are in DMOZ as their content is at best poor. Getting into DMOZ is impossible nowadays, so why does Google still use it? Flo, Spain
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If you want to be in dmoz buy an expired domain thats in dmoz =*(
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So a link from DMOZ only is worth for its pagerank
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@HaydenICM I really wouldn't bother with it. Like Matt said, try to get linked to high a quality site. That will have more effect then trying to get into Dmoz.
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a link from a newspaper is 1 link ... a link from dmoz could mean hundreds / thousands of links via their dump. dmoz is abused thats a proven fact why does Google place any value in that?
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As I see you are now using a Chromebook and if you could send me one for review please contact me soon .
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Dmoz is a junk directory, just find an expired domain still in dmoz and register it, point it at your site and you're in dmoz, fuck the dmoz modertors, they a idiots.
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#2:35 If a site has blocked crawler from indexing a certain page using robots.txt, then this means that site owner doesn't want it to be crawled at all. And what is the point of getting any data about this page from DMOZ then ?
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JordanTG1 6 months ago 22
1) DMOZ is horrific. The section curators I've tried to deal with are either ignorant in their subject matter, or they're squatting on behalf of corporations. Google should ban the site like it went after JC Penny.
2) If I exclude a page with robots.txt, please be respectful Google, and ignore the page, and don't try to describe it using decrepit text pulled from DMOZ.
DanCentury3000 6 months ago 16