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Web Directories Battle For #1 Spot

Web directories, especially high quality ones, are coveted links for search engine marketers. The holy grail is a link on DMOZ, but it’s pretty much unreachable. I know of someone who took great lengths to become an editor so he could get his site included. A few months later he resigned in frustration.

Ideas Yahoo Must Implement Soon

Yahoo!'s Downward Trend Yahoo! killed off their brand universe project, and recently fired 30 people. Rumor has it that about 2,000 more layoffs might be coming soon. Yahoo! shares are nearing $20, trading at $20.78, and giving them a market capitalization of $27.8 billion.

Webmasters Ponder PageRank Discrepancy

An update to the Google Directory has webmasters puzzling over an apparent discrepancy in PageRank scores.

Google Directory Updated from DMOZ Data?

I know a segment of my readers are sick to death with anything to do with Google PageRank updates, and I haven't even bothered mentioning the most recent update up until now… there wasn't really anything newsworthy in it.

DMOZ Blog Opens

Can the Open Directory be back?

No DMOZ In Google SERP!

Barry Schwartz reports that The Open Directory's Home Page Goes Missing In Google.

DMOZ Mob Strikes Again

This weekend I was reading about Shoemoney being extorted by a DMOZ editor. I thought: heck, I’m a DMOZ editor, I don’t want to be associated with stuff like that, let’s see if I can do anything to help. So I posted something like that in the commentthread to the above post, and I added a note to Shoemoney’s URL in DMOZ asking why the URL was removed.

Corrupt DMOZ Editor?

Jeremy Shoemaker reports that he was blackmailed into paying for staying in the DMOZ.org open directory (which is usually free to be in):

Fred Thompson's Webmaster Doesn't Know Dmoz

The potential Presidential candidate's campaign doesn't know why a Google listing for his official website has a description they didn't write. We know what happened.

DMOZ Delisting Sites For Sale?

It's not clear if it's a new policy or a glitch, but some webmasters are upset as it appears that the Open Directory Project (ODP) is delisting sites that post their links in the Marketplace (for sale) section.