Comments on: Dmoz – Say goodbye to authority! FINALLY! http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/ Marketing and Development Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:07:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mikego http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/comment-page-1/#comment-729 mikego Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:50:39 +0000 http://www.blueverse.com/xx/?p=243#comment-729 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. 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.

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]]> By: robjones http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/comment-page-1/#comment-151 robjones Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:41:13 +0000 http://www.blueverse.com/xx/?p=243#comment-151 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. 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.

]]> By: Marcos http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Marcos Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:12:08 +0000 http://www.blueverse.com/xx/?p=243#comment-150 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! 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!

]]> By: g1smd http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/comment-page-1/#comment-149 g1smd Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:33:00 +0000 http://www.blueverse.com/xx/?p=243#comment-149 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 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

]]> By: g1smd http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/comment-page-1/#comment-154 g1smd Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:39:46 +0000 http://www.blueverse.com/xx/?p=243#comment-154 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 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. 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.

]]> By: Gnet http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Gnet Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:06:45 +0000 http://www.blueverse.com/xx/?p=243#comment-157 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 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

]]> By: g1smd http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/comment-page-1/#comment-156 g1smd Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:03:15 +0000 http://www.blueverse.com/xx/?p=243#comment-156 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 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. 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.

]]> By: Gnet http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Gnet Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:55:24 +0000 http://www.blueverse.com/xx/?p=243#comment-155 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. 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.

]]> By: robjones http://www.blueverse.com/2007/09/29/dmoz-say-goodbye-to-authority-finally/comment-page-1/#comment-153 robjones Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:36:57 +0000 http://www.blueverse.com/xx/?p=243#comment-153 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. 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.

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