Are DMOZ editors not indexing their competitors?

[john551]

I have tried many times to include my and my clients sites in dmoz. But it seems that editors of dmoz are reluctant to include sites that is having direct competition with them.

The open community should change editors for such categories. Some of the categories which are having no response are:

Web Design
Web Hosting
Web Resources
Network management

[clasione]

This possibility has been kicked around alot since a good portion of editors are only editing to have control of their catagories....

Stuff like this has been hurting the DMOZ name for a very long time... A good portion of the editors are editing for the good of the project, but not in all cases...

[bigdoug]

Yeah, whoever is in control of Branson, MO regional will not let my sites in - such as www.BransonCritic.org (http://www.bransoncritic.org/)

It has been over a year, I even inquired twice about status, and all I heard it was waiting to be reviewed. With the most popular site in the Branson region not getting included is hilarious.

Is Branson Critic unique?

1)No other website has reviews of the shows.

2)No other site runs contest for best pictures and reviews.

3)No other site has an Show Award program that thousands of people participate in.

4)No other website provides Question and Answer for general public, except a forum.

5)No other website has a complete theatre directory of all shows websites in that region

6)We get direct press releases, show info, and important changes to community.

7)Over 20 volunteers work on the site for the good of the public



And yet, we will not be let in to the community of Dmoz control freaks who are threatened by this site. The category is filled with affiliate sites, duplicate sites, and plain old washed up sites that bring little value to the directory.



Amazingly I complained to Dmoz about the category crap, and they removed all but 2 of the sites I proved as garbage...yet, while they were cleaning up, they did not include us.



So I was told by fellow SEO's to forget about it, it is only a link, and I did.



But today, we happened to see a new site pop out of nowhere above our site in serp's. It looked like a clone of all the other crap sales site in the category. So we did a BL check, and sure enough.......................Newly listed in the ODP.



So now WEEEEEEEEEEEEE know, that without a doubt, that we are being kept out.



I look forward to paying Google $500 for a directory listing, when the day comes that they charge...and we look forward to the end of Dmoz.



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[clasione]

I wish there was something I could do to help you out with that Doug.... You have posted something similar in resource-zone right?

Just in case you haven't, you should try... Usually the meta editors hang out on www.resource-zone.com (http://www.resource-zone.com)

I would imagine that something like this really should grab their attention...

If what you say is true about your site and the others, they should really be helping you out...

[bigdoug]

Just in case you haven't, you should try... Usually the meta editors hang out on www.resource-zone.com (http://www.resource-zone.com/)

If what you say is true about your site and the others, they should really be helping you out...

Yes, I posted in the Resource-Zone 2wice. They said there was a need for a catagorie editor there and they cleaned up the catagorie pretty well, but failed to add us. So I applied to be an editor 2wice and was rejected...lol

My wife, who is an english grad, was rejected too...hehe

What the heck...I must have a disease...


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[bigdoug]

Here is one of the links before it all got started, http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27800I will try to find the other links -

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[clasione]

Jimnoble is a very good and serious DMOZ editor....

I can only suggest another fresh posting about the situation detailing the facts as you have stated them here... Maybe even mention that you want Jimnoble to look into it...

If you take the time to detail this I would be very surprized if he doesn't look into it a bit more....