Wednesday, April 20  

Corruption Scandal Hits DMOZ

Corruption Scandal Hits DMOZ

Hello

DMOZ is a web site of particular value when you are trying to achieve a high ranking for a web site. If you manage to get your site listed in DMOZ then your site rankings on most other major search engines will go increase very significantly.

Now DMOZ is administered by volunteer staff who do not get paid. Apparently.

But a blog has been set up that puts all that into question: http://www.corruptdmozeditor.com (please note: On Monday 25 April, the site appears down).

This has wide ranging ramifications for DMOZ and those sites listed and how DMOZ listings will be treated in the future by the other search engines.

I'll be interested to see if the writer can prove their association with DMOZ or whether they're just a disgruntled customer.

Brendon