Dmoz - Say goodbye to authority! FINALLY!
I just googled for dmoz right now and guess what the extended results is gone the site’s authority is seemingly gone as far as i can tell if not totally then at least 70% of it is gone because of the extended results not showing up anymore.
Now i mentioned earlier about the directories dieing slowly, seriously no matter what kind of directory you may have, run for the hills and sell it before you go down the drain with the rest of them.
Heres a screenshot for proof sake and a good memory
Edit:
New Screen shot (1st october)
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More proof:
Multiple dc results from SEOChat
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September 30th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
ROFL. Ummm… if you really “just googled for dmoz” and got that screen-shot you must have a REALLY slow computer… cause the Dmoz indexing glitch got fixed 3 days before your blog entry.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:55 am
And you must have a cache problem on yours, see the screen shot above with the current date.
And to further explain this, ive added results from multiple datacenters.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Yes, the extended listings were removed when Google started de-indexing the dmoz.org site URLs a few weeks ago.
The ODP has had a site-wide 301 redirect installed from dmoz.org to http://www.dmoz.org for at least several weeks, as have several other alternative domains and subdomains for the ODP.
The canonicalisation fix to the site probably means that Google has to recalculate PR and other factors for almost every page of the site.
That will take a few days to weeks, but Matt Cutts has already confirmed that there is no penalty. While the re-indexing and recalculations are ongoing there will be several odd effects seen here and there.
If anything, you would be wise to learn what happens to a million-page site that fixes canonicalisation issues, in case you are ever called on to do such work.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Well thats what i meant by authority gone, they don’t hold the same status as they once did, look at the 301 and some dupes on their servers as misbehaving, for atleast a year or so it won’t have that much power/strength as it used to have (google weight in other words)
My blog has a pr2 on the non-www domain…but it has authority (google weight), i’m not that idiotic to put up a 301 just to get a prettier url and ruin my weight at google…hehe
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
The ODP was previously listed under (www.)(newhoo|dmoz).(org|com) as well as several (mozilla|netscape).(com|org|net) and (aol.com) subdomains, and, by accident, directly at the URLs for one of the load-balancing servers.
Now only http://www.dmoz.org is open for indexing. All of the other URLs are either sending a 301 redirect or are blocked with a robots.txt file or are behind a firewall and/or authentication process.
It will probably take Google at least one round of indexing and PR recalculation to get it right, but with the URL canonicalisation that is now in place it should come back even stronger than before.
See also: Matt Cutts recent comments about “heuristics” with regard to re-indexing ODP URLs.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:33 pm
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site%3Awww.dmoz.org
http://72.14.203.99/search?num=100&q=site%3Awww.dmoz.org
October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
DMOZ needs to go. It’s frustrated enough webmasters worldwide. As a directory itself it’s not much good either since it doesn’t list addresses or telephone numbers. Go away DMOZ!
October 6th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
That’s an odd comment… it’s a directory of websites, not a phone book, so we list URLs, not phone numbers. If the webmaster wants his address and telephone number on his website he can put it there.
Next somebody’ll be chastising buses for not having wings.
October 7th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
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December 22nd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
DMOZ maybe be devalued these days but I guess getting listed there doesn’t hurt. I have submitted some of my sites there but till now none were approved.