.: Odp Top Related Articles
1). SEO Best Practice: Befriend The Directories
Why Directories Are Important
Directories should play a major role in your SEO efforts, well, at least the big and important ones, for the following reasons:
- Listings within major directories provide "context" to search engines. For example, if your web site is listed in the Open Directory Project under the category Pets -> Weird Pets -> Blue Cats, search engines will assume your web site has something to do with blue cats.
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2). Dmoz is in dire need to improve its image.
Dmoz.org or ODP (the Open Directory Project) is a web directory which was originally created in 1998 as Gnuhoo by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel while working at Sun Microsystems. The first controversy started soon Soon after the launch the directory and lead to renaming it to NewHoo after wide spread accusation that the name of the directory implied open source yet the directory was a closed source which negates the spirit of free software of GNU projects which the directory was originally named after.
Article tags: dmoz, odp, directory. web sites, google, yahoo, submission, marketing, promotion, editors, open directory project, improving dmoz, unethical editors, corrupt dmoz editors, web directories, submit site