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DMOZ Delisted? 
By: Jordan McCollum 2007-09-25 Last week, Rand Fishkin gave a good round up and reasoning behind what appears to be a recent Google penalty for sub-par directories. It looks like he might be able to add one more devalued directory to his list: DMOZ. Search Engine Land reports that DMOZ is no longer showing up in search results for keywords -dmoz-, -www.dmoz.org-, -open directory- or -open directory project-. Pages from subdirectories and several folders deep (and the unavailable page) still show up in search results, however, the root page does not: 
This is just the latest in a string of negative publicity for DMOZ. As weve mentioned before, last month, Shoemoney said that his site was removed from the directory after he refused to pay an extorting DMOZ editor. Then Joost de Valk, a DMOZ editor, tried to look into the allegations"and had his editorial account deleted. Oh, DMOZ. We thought things might be looking up for you when you started accepting sites for review again, but alas. Even Google doesnt respect you now. How long before the all search engines have followed suit? Comments Tag: Google, DMOZ Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl Have a bookmark! -  About the Author: Jordan McCollum is a staff writer for the popular marketing blog Marketing Pilgrim. She has worked in search engine optimization with clients including 3M, Little Giant Ladders and ADP. After graduating from Brigham Young University, Jordan joined the SEO copywriting team at the Internet marketing firm 10x Marketing. After 10x closed its doors in December 2006, Jordan became a freelance writer and Internet marketing consultant specializing in SEO. She also has extensive experience with web analytics, conversion rate enhancement and e-mail marketing. |
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