While many are finding it difficult to get a site listed in the Open Directory Project others find it quite easy. This data may shed some light. A deep link...
[Nick Sahadi:] ... No doubt there are some webmasters who have the inside track at ODP, but no one -- and I mean no one -- finds it "quite easy" to get his or...
Regarding: "the time one would waste submitting his or her site to ODP" The ODP is absolutely useless as a navigational aid to the web user-- but that doesn't...
[arttworks:] ... As I noted earlier, a listing on Yahoo! and/or Looksmart is just as effective as an ODP listing. The only advantage of ODP is that ODP does...
XODP Moderator netesq, Thanks for the unrequested, irrelevant, an inaccurat link analysis. If you do a simple "donotgo" search of googles "DIRECTORY" you will ...
[arttworks:] ... Not that it matters, but Google does, in fact, spider its own directory, which is totally irrelevant to the question of how Google determines...
"You have clearly ..." No you have "clearly" ignored the substance of my original post-- and chosen instead to stick your know-it-all-nose where it wasn't ...
[arttworks:] ... This sounds like a personal problem, one which you don't seem interested in dicussing, so why are you posting here? [arttworks:] ... I must...
... This BS tactic of yours to attempt to turn every disagreement in the someone else's "personal problem" has gotten too tiresome-- for even me. I shall take...
[arttworks:] ... This BS tactic of yours of claiming victim status when you are the one attempting to provoke pointless flamefests is nothing short of...
On the surface you have a point, but you will have to dig deeper to find abuse -- if there is any. You forgot to mention how many geocities.com sites there are...
[Keith T. (responding to Nick Sahadi):] ... I think Nick's point is pretty obvious: Certain Web domains have an inordinate number of listings on ODP whereas...
This site http://searchenginediscussion.com/ is mentioned numerous time in the file letter I received as a result of my joining this group. It's not what I...
[Bobby Anderson:] ... The Search Engine Discussion site was shuttered quite some time ago, and the letter greeting subscribers to the XODP eGroup (which was...
I was deleted from several other forums. Seems there is nothing you can do when ODP has no more use for you. I applied in December 2002 and was accepted on my...
That is very typical of how ODP works - pretty much the same thing happened to me after editing for almost 18 months. They are their own worst enemy. I have...
[lewised62:] ... From what other forums were you deleted? If you are talking about the ODP Editor Forums, that's standard operating procedure. Beyond that,...
From: David F. Prenatt, Jr. ... category. ... http://www.dmoz.org/reference/directories/address_and_phone_numbers/Area_ Codes >] ... at ODP. You may want to...
[lewised62:] ... [David Prenatt:] ... [sabre23t:] ... As _ex post facto_ explanations go, that's a good one for why ODP terminated lewised62's editing...
Hi, I don't normally respond to these sorts of things, but I feel I need to here... ... to my ... Actually, take a closer look at the site's source. That...
[sabre33t:] ... [Ciaran Hamilton:] ... I noticed that too, and I thought I had pointed that out in my response. However, your response was much more clear....
"Sites consisting primarily of affiliate links, or whose sole purpose is to drive user traffic to another site for the purpose of commission sales, provide no...
[lewised62:] ... No doubt this is true. [lewised62:] ... Once again, this is true. [lewised62:] ... Actually, I think sabre23t just made an honest mistake. As...
FWIW site http://www.area-codes.com was moved by: meta editor mcowley to: Test/Meta/Sites_Owned_by_Ex-Editors/L on 4/1 No reason given for removal Listing was...
More typical ODP crap. They have been criticised many times for keeping that ex editor site list, but they just won't give up. ... From: billyjack_777 To:...
... keeping that ex editor site list, but they just won't give up. <<<<< Also, that meta broke the official ODP guidelines in that "A reason must be given when...
Active ODP Editall reporting for duty. The site in question is being discussed by the editalls and metas. I can't tell you more than that. ... not ... The site...
[Neil R. Turner:] ... That goes without saying. It's too bad that a former ODP editor whose site has been unjustly blacklisted has no official channel to seek...
[lewised62:] ... Giving the Devil his due, the powers that be at ODP are probably in the process of trying to put things right now, at least in terms of...
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