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Originally Posted by suesheboy
I have had some really great sites with hundred and hundreds of pages of unique content with perfect code, great descriptions, no spam submitted to the right categories following the rules to a "t" and nothing.
Drives me nuts as I see it is a real SEO help even though the listing itself draws very little traffic. |
@suesheboy
I sympathize with how you must feel.
It may help to you to look at the thing from a different Point Of View. Consider the following ideas:
DMOZ listings are not for the benefit of Webmasters;
placement in the Directory is for the benefit of those seeking information;
the (debatable) SEO benefits are an unintended consequence of a listing in DMOZ and don't enter in to an editor's decision;
no one of us has a real or implied right to be listed in the Open Directory.
Seen from this point of view an individual site submission could appear very differently to a DMOZ editor than to a webmaster with commercial or ego-driven motivations - like me
.
Remember - it is not about you. It isn't even necessarily about your website. It is almost all about the needs of others.
BTW, the opinions I've expressed here are just my own and not ODP's. I formed my POV on DMOZ from reading their published information and lurking on their blog - Your Mileage May Vary.