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[1dmf]

I've heard that AOL might be selling DMOZ to Best of The Web.

Do you beleive this will happen, and what effect do you think this will have on G! and SEO in general.

Do DMOZ links really count for much in SEO terms anymore?

Will they count for less if sold?

What's your thoughts on this?

[Randy]

Do you beleive this will happen, and what effect do you think this will have on G! and SEO in general.

None.

Do DMOZ links really count for much in SEO terms anymore?

Not any more than any other decent directory link, which isn't much. Those might help with Discovery, but there are other ways to accomplish that.

Or to put it another way, I haven't even bothered to submit any of my sites to DMOZ in about 5 years. My total disregard of DMOZ certainly hasn't hurt my sites' rankings any.

[cbp]

This was a rumor started by Shoemoney - it may or may not to true. HOWEVER, he has been exposed in the past [as one] who makes things up just to get link bait for his site (he attract the DP type crowd) - it worked then and looks to be working again. I would not believe this until I here it direct from AOL or DMOZ, purely because he was the first source of this rumor.

[1dmf]

Well I heard about it from WebProNews, as they spam me every day.

So if it was someone elses attempt to get em to link to them they failed miserably.

I'm not sure i've ever heard of or visited Shoemoney, so i'm gonna fight the urge to go check em out incase you're really part of this global conspiracy to increase their visitor base.

[cbp]

Well I heard about it from WebProNews, as they spam me every day.

So if it was someone elses attempt to get em to link to them they failed miserably.

I'm not sure i've ever heard of or visited Shoemoney, so i'm gonna fight the urge to go check em out incase you're really part of this global conspiracy to increase their visitor base.

WebProNews cited their source for the story as Shoemoney..

[Misscj]

I have seen posts (not here), saying that you can maybe pay an editor to include your site, or become and editor and include all your sites. If an editor isn't going to include your site, you can't really influence that, they might not even tell you why. Sites have to be properly structured and so on, and when you submit it, your submission better be clean and well drafted. It's not that easy to become an editor, and then getting a very popular section is quite tough, so wanting to include all your seo business sites won't wash, especially if they check and realise you will be biased.

There are so many submissions a day. I was an editor a few years ago in the vinyl and record shop section, I became an editor because i wanted to be part of it. There was friction between editors, and your submissions are randomly checked out by a superior editor as well. Also not everyone logs in to deal with it all every day for example. It could be every month or whatever the rules are nowadays.

I think DMOZ still drives traffic but I also think it's as important as any other good directory. Does the purchase from BOTW mean monetization? I don't know. I left DMOZ as an editor because I got bored and felt overworked