DMOZ Articles

1). A Letter to Santa From An Internet Marketer By : Halstatt Pires
Yo, Santa! How’s it going in the great white north? Seeing as it tis’ the season, here is my letter about what I want for Christmas. Been Good Santa, I know you do that whole good versus bad thing. I promise I’ve been a good internet marketer this year. I haven’t spammed the search engines with mirror sites, link farm purchases or little tricks to tweak your friends at Google.
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2). How To Use DMOZ.org To Drive Search Engine Traffic To Your Website By : Jeff Flow
This article will show you a great way to increase your website traffic and give you guidelines on getting listed in DMOZ. Getting listed in DMOZ should be an important part of your search engine marketing arsenal. Not only will you get targeted traffic to your site, but you will get a better search engine rank.
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3). SEO Best Practice: Befriend The Directories By : Otilia Otlacan
Why Directories Are Important Directories should play a major role in your SEO efforts, well, at least the big and important ones, for the following reasons: - Listings within major directories provide "context" to search engines. For example, if your web site is listed in the Open Directory Project under the category Pets -> Weird Pets -> Blue Cats, search engines will assume your web site has something to do with blue cats.
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4). Dmoz is in dire need to improve its image. By : DmozSucks
Dmoz.org or ODP (the Open Directory Project) is a web directory which was originally created in 1998 as Gnuhoo by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel while working at Sun Microsystems. The first controversy started soon Soon after the launch the directory and lead to renaming it to NewHoo after wide spread accusation that the name of the directory implied open source yet the directory was a closed source which negates the spirit of free software of GNU projects which the directory was originally named after.
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6). The Basics Of Search Engine Submission By : anil vij
Before you are ready to begin submitting your site to the search engines, your site will need to meet the basic guidelines for SEO. If you are unsure if your site meets the minimum standards, then it may be a good idea to use some of the free tools available on the internet to make certain your site is 100% ready.
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