Shock!! horror!! Is nothing in this world sacred any more?
After a week of discussions in forums and on blogs about the value of a DMOZ listing for your website’s Page Rank, I’d kind of given up on getting Gite Guru listed in this mystical directory.
For those of you in the dark about DMOZ, it’s ‘the largest human-edited directory of the web’ and getting a listing is both great for your SEO, and nigh on impossible. It’s ‘human edited’ status means that search spiders are reputed to give listings increased importance in their rankings.
I know it’s good for search optimisation, as my previous company was at or around position 1 on Google for a pretty specific and generic search term as a result of a beautifully crafted DMOZ description.
But since the explosion of the interweb and, more importantly SEO consultants (the latter don’t actually explode, unfortunately, some might argue), and in the face of several recent failed (last couple of years) attempts at listing, I’d kind of given up on the worlds biggest human edited database. Was it still being edited? Could I find anyone who’d successfully listed in recent months / years?
And then, in the comments of a great post about WordPress SEO, someone suggested that DMOZ editors might be taking backhanders.
This surely cannot be?! Corruption at DMOZ? For that to be true, people would have to be actually bidding on ‘guaranteed listings on DMOZ’ projects on this Getafreelancer.com website…
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If this is true, I think it would take away the uniqueness of this directory and is bound to eventually fail!!