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Friday Jul 3 | Search Engine Roundtable

How Important is DMOZ in Your SEO Process?

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if DMOZ is still relevant in 2009? DMOZ is a legendary web directory and has a ton of history.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Associated Content

3D Shopping: Why Virtual 3D Shopping is Different

The web is still in the beginning, since the " Web Big Bang " in march 1989, the web is expanding faster and faster.

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Related Topix: Internet, Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Social Software, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Video Games

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Website Babble Webmaster Forums

What Google Thinks of Directory Submissions

There's been a LOT of discussion here about free and paid directories and how they are valued by the SEs, so I thought you may want to watch this.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology

Sat Jun 06, 2009

ResourceShelf

11 Years Old Today: Happy Birthday, DMOZ (Open Directory Project)

From the DMOZ Blog: Hard to believe, but it's already been 11 years since DMOZ launched back on June 5, 1998.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Thu Jun 04, 2009

Buzzle.com

Is DMOZ Directory Submission a Must for Link Building?

Submitting to DMOZ for backlink is not as effective as it has been once. Most of the time the submission is purely ignored and rest of the time get rejected.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Internet

Tue Jun 02, 2009

Search Engine Roundtable

Is Bing Not Honoring NOODP Tag?

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Microsoft's new search engine, Bing , which launched the other day, does not seem to support the NOODP tag.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Fri May 22, 2009

Search Engine Roundtable

Want Your Listing to be Approved in DMOZ? Use Real Titles

There is an excellent thread at WebmasterWorld on the topic of web directories. Moderator, incrediBILL, runs directories and he goes off on how many of the submissions are not able writing your titles and descriptions to be click worthy, but rather they are stuffed with keywords for the SEO benefit, if any.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology

Thu May 07, 2009

Website Babble Webmaster Forums

Yahoo Directory and DMOZ

Okay Okay, I know it's probably been posted and asked like 1000 times but first of all.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Tue May 05, 2009

SEO Book.com

Respect For DMOZ

A DMOZ editor complains "Everybody loves Google, everybody loves Wikipedia - so why doesn't everybody love DMOZ?" My blog post would be rather long if I listed all the reasons why I think people don't love DMOZ, so I'll stick to fisking the contents of the editors post.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Piracy News, Web Design, Arts

Thu Apr 30, 2009

WYYW-FM Meridian

Authority Linking Sites - Finding the Best

DMOZ Ah yes, the open source directory project . Most people who submit their sites don't get in.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Blog News

Mon Apr 20, 2009

Yelvington.com

Turns out it's Google's fault, after all

Once upon a time, you couldn't find much of anything on the Internet. Oh, there were a couple of ways to do it.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Internet

Buzzle.com

Directory Submission: A Critical Step to Online Promotion

Developing a website is just not enough to attract traffic to it. You need to properly promote your site before visitors can find it.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Internet

Sat Mar 21, 2009

WYYW-FM Meridian

Web Site Traffic Promotion - A How To Guide For Website Promotion

All your efforts will go in vain if your site is not well optimized for search engine.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Thu Mar 19, 2009

CiteULike

Deep classification in large-scale text hierarchies

Such a classification method does not give very detailed topic-related class information for the user because the first two levels are often too coarse.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Sat Feb 21, 2009

WYYW-FM Meridian

Drive Traffic to Your Blog

Most of the top blogs such as Boing Boing, Daily Kos, and Instapundit publish an average of 30 small 100-150 word posts per day according to "Secrets of the A-list Bloggers: Lots of Short Posts" by TNL.net 2.) ...

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Related Topix: Blog News, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Internet, Science / Technology

Thu Feb 12, 2009

CiteULike

The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008. WI-IAT '08. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on , Vol.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Social Software

Tue Feb 03, 2009

Search Engine Watch

Using Search to Help you with Search Engine Optimization

Regular Au Natural readers probably know you need both good on-site and off-site SEO to have a successful Web site.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Internet

Digital Inspiration

Microsoft and Yahoo Explain Google Better Than Google

This is the actual HTML code that is used to render the homepage of Google. As you may have noticed, there aren't any meta tags in the Google source code so search engines have to rely on the DMOZ directory for ...

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Microsoft, Science / Technology, Internet

Wed Jan 21, 2009

Search Engine Journal

An Interview with Steve Plunkett: SEO Experimentation Done Right

Steve Plunkett is a well known for his SEO insights. You can follow him on Twitter or view his online resume at LinkedIn .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Social Software, Web Design, Arts, Science / Technology

Tue Dec 16, 2008

makrhod.blogspot.com | makrhod

FAQ about ODP/DMOZ editing Part 1: Applying

The first in a series of three blog posts addresses common questions about becoming a volunteer editor in ODP/DMOZ. Subsequent posts cover the early days of editing, and how editors progress. Written by a DMOZ meta-editor, with links to official resources.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Blog News

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