Okay, so I've decided to take a break from Dmoz. I've been an editor for close to four years and I'm almost burned out at the moment; I've been editing less and less lately.
What have I been doing with my time if I'm not editing at Dmoz, you ask? Well, many things. I'm usually working on a personal project, playing one of my favorite games, or lurking on one of my favorite forums. Or, heck, even chatting with one of my fellow editors over IM. Doing these things takes up a lot of my time, especially the game playing. I'd like to get back to some console gaming, but my Xbox360 is kinda clunked right now - thanks to me. Bleh.
Don't get me wrong, I still log-in to Dmoz everyday except on rare occasions. I visit the internal forum and read a couple of threads, I usually skip 99.9% of them out of disinterest, then I look at my editor dash...wait, I'll explain all this boring stuff in my next post, hahah.
Next post: What I do when I log into the Dmoz. - because I know you're dying to know, hahah.
This post isn't proofread because I'm just too darn tired...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
SEO Specialists talk about Dmoz.
I did a once-in-a-blue moon search for "Dmoz" and found this interesting blog post. A few SEO specialists held a conference to discuss the SEO industry. I found the answers...interesting, to say the least.
Q: What do you think about DMOZ?
Debra: I have an interview with DMOZ this week and they seem committed to fixing the directory. [Really? Interesting, I might say. I wonder how it went. BTW, AOL staff are working on releasing Dmoz 2.0 soon, *fingers crossed.*]
Eric: A link from DMOZ is not something you have to have to rank. It'd be nice to see them return to their former glory, though.
Danny: Google recently removed their suggestion that sites should try to get links from directories.
Rae: That doesn't mean that they don't still value links from directories. It's probably meant to help sites from getting scammed by anyone who throws up a site and calls it a directory.
Eric: You can see the last date edited and find out which editor did it. Search for that editor's username and you can find out how to contact them privately. They'll appreciate you took that extra step. [Some interesting remarks. Nearly false, but interesting nonetheless. For starters, no one other than an editor can find out which editor made an edit to a category. The only information available to the public is the date and time stamp at the bottom of the page, not editor name. Secondly, I don't know about the last sentence, but some editors don't appreciate being asked about submitted sites. I usually don't give much thought about a submitter contacting me, so I can't say that I "appreciate" the effort, though I'm not opposed to giving site status checks.]
(source: http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archives/2009/10/ask_the_linkbui.html)
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Q: What do you think about DMOZ?
Debra: I have an interview with DMOZ this week and they seem committed to fixing the directory. [Really? Interesting, I might say. I wonder how it went. BTW, AOL staff are working on releasing Dmoz 2.0 soon, *fingers crossed.*]
Eric: A link from DMOZ is not something you have to have to rank. It'd be nice to see them return to their former glory, though.
Danny: Google recently removed their suggestion that sites should try to get links from directories.
Rae: That doesn't mean that they don't still value links from directories. It's probably meant to help sites from getting scammed by anyone who throws up a site and calls it a directory.
Eric: You can see the last date edited and find out which editor did it. Search for that editor's username and you can find out how to contact them privately. They'll appreciate you took that extra step. [Some interesting remarks. Nearly false, but interesting nonetheless. For starters, no one other than an editor can find out which editor made an edit to a category. The only information available to the public is the date and time stamp at the bottom of the page, not editor name. Secondly, I don't know about the last sentence, but some editors don't appreciate being asked about submitted sites. I usually don't give much thought about a submitter contacting me, so I can't say that I "appreciate" the effort, though I'm not opposed to giving site status checks.]
(source: http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archives/2009/10/ask_the_linkbui.html)
Current Stats:
6490 [total edits] / 2084 unique adds / 1718 deletes / 1193 unreviewed
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