What a great debate the Newsletter topic started.
Now that’s what I call effective 'Marketing'; attracting visitors with quality content.
Congratulations to everyone who is behind this project.
I am a regular user of DMOZ and I also submit regularly my client’s and companies website to the directory on the basis of good practice, and nothing more.
I submit each website once, and only once, and if the editors do not approve of my submissions, I do not take it has a vendetta against my company or any my clients. They judge the content of the websites with by a criterion that is dictated by reinstated Google rules, and not personal criterium. No doubt that mistakes are committed, intentionally or not ( that’s another issues), but the Human nature of the directory will inevitably lead to the occurrence of errors.
In the end, what we have to keep I mind is that like any service, the consumer is not obliged to consume, and DMOZ is not obliged to index your submission just because you suggested it. Has a matter of fact, that’s what it is, the act of submitting your site is a mere suggestion.
And don’t think that I am playing the devil advocate’s for the reason that all of my sites have been indexed, quite the contrary, not a single website I have suggested has ever been indexed by DMOZ, but guess what, life goes on and there are other ways to optimize projects for Google. In the mean time, I will keep adding rich content to the web sites I manage, and eventually, they will get noticed by an editor.
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