Dmoz re-opens its add url feature, maybe they should just shut it again http://www.yackyack.co.uk/rants/dmoz-re-opens-its-add-url-feature-maybe-they-should-just-shut-it-again/ A Search Marketing Blog Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Dmoz re-opens its add url feature, maybe they should just shut it again http://www.yackyack.co.uk/rants/dmoz-re-opens-its-add-url-feature-maybe-they-should-just-shut-it-again/comment-page-1/#comment-485 robwatts Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:13:45 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/01/14/dmoz-re-opens-its-add-url-feature-maybe-they-should-just-shut-it-again/#comment-485 Hi David You are not the 1st and won't be the last to feel hard done by by that little crew. I really wouldn't bother my arse wasting any more energy on them than you have already. Its simply not worth the time and energy. Even if you complain, nothing will happen, someone somewhere might pay you lip service and yes true also, you might be exceptionally fortunate and get a positive outcome too. I wouldn't bank on it though! Have a read up on social media. Look at technorati, Digg, reddit, delicious, mybloglog. Network with other bloggers and site owners in your niche; spend more time working on and improving whatever site it was you were trying to promote, create some buzz! You'll get a whole lot more links and traction that way. The days of getting big boosts from things like DMoz and the like are gone. It just doesn't cut it anymore, submit (if you must), forget, then move on. IMO, they just really aint worth the aggravation. Good luck with it all too :) Hi David

You are not the 1st and won’t be the last to feel hard done by by that little crew.

I really wouldn’t bother my arse wasting any more energy on them than you have already. Its simply not worth the time and energy. Even if you complain, nothing will happen, someone somewhere might pay you lip service and yes true also, you might be exceptionally fortunate and get a positive outcome too. I wouldn’t bank on it though!

Have a read up on social media. Look at technorati, Digg, reddit, delicious, mybloglog. Network with other bloggers and site owners in your niche; spend more time working on and improving whatever site it was you were trying to promote, create some buzz! You’ll get a whole lot more links and traction that way.

The days of getting big boosts from things like DMoz and the like are gone. It just doesn’t cut it anymore, submit (if you must), forget, then move on.

IMO, they just really aint worth the aggravation. Good luck with it all too :)

]]> Dmoz re-opens its add url feature, maybe they should just shut it again http://www.yackyack.co.uk/rants/dmoz-re-opens-its-add-url-feature-maybe-they-should-just-shut-it-again/comment-page-1/#comment-476 David Sakol Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:32:12 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/01/14/dmoz-re-opens-its-add-url-feature-maybe-they-should-just-shut-it-again/#comment-476 I just had the door slammed in my face by an arrogant, nasty DMOZ editor who, had he been wearing an SS uniform would I am sure, have happily shipped me off to Auschwitz because I asked what happened to my listing. What a ill-mannered idiot! I waited weeks for their Update Listing form to re-appear so that I could change the title and description of my listing which, after 7 years, had been arbitrarily changed by a DMOZ editor and was entirely wrong. On submitting the update form my listing immediately disappeared from its category and for four weeks I have been waiting for it to return. I want to make an official complaint but cannot find to whom or where I should address it. For obvious reasons I don't want to post it at the DMOZ resourse. I understand DMOZ is under the auspices of Netscape. Can anyone confirm? I just had the door slammed in my face by an arrogant, nasty DMOZ editor who, had he been wearing an SS uniform would I am sure, have happily shipped me off to Auschwitz because I asked what happened to my listing. What a ill-mannered idiot! I waited weeks for their Update Listing form to re-appear so that I could change the title and description of my listing which, after 7 years, had been arbitrarily changed by a DMOZ editor and was entirely wrong. On submitting the update form my listing immediately disappeared from its category and for four weeks I have been waiting for it to return.

I want to make an official complaint but cannot find to whom or where I should address it. For obvious reasons I don’t want to post it at the DMOZ resourse. I understand DMOZ is under the auspices of Netscape. Can anyone confirm?

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