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DMOZ: Hard to Get Into, Harder to Escape
November 01, 2005
So you think it's hard to get your site into the Open Directory Project (DMOZ)? Try getting it OUT.
ABAKUS Internet Marketing Blog posted this morning about one man's efforts to have his site removed from DMOZ.
As I've written about before, Google sometimes experiments with its user interface by pulling title and description data from a site's entry in DMOZ. Site owners themselves frequently dislike this phenomenon, because it gives them little or no control over how sites appear on a Google results page. The case found by ABAKUS is no different. In the Resource Zone thread it cites, a site owner asks for removal from the directory because
- Google is pulling his DMOZ data for its results pages, and
- That data, apparently created by a DMOZ editor, was a poor (if not inaccurate) description of his site, and he claims it was causing him to lose business.
If you follow these topics closely, this thread is a classic - a perfect illustration of why site owners and DMOZ editors have few positive words for each other. While the situation seemed to resolve itself rather peacefully, the original question - why, upon request of a site owner, a site cannot (or will not) be removed from DMOZ - is never really answered, other than it's simply not their policy.
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posted by Erik Dafforn at November 1, 2005 03:50 PM
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