DMOZ Latest search engine news blog articles from DMOZ. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/DMOZ.html DMOZ News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12996 The ODP mentorship process helps to guide new editors as they learn the sometimes complex process of categorizing sites. A couple of weeks ago, we heard from editor Laigh who called out his role as a mentor as one of the highlights of his experience. Today, we hear from Snooks, one of Laigh's pupils, about the experience of being mentored. - - - - - - - - - My name is Snooks and I have been an editor for about six months. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:30:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12715 Since today is Halloween, we thought it would be a good opportunity to highlight our favorite little monsters, the Mozzies, who you may have noticed lurking around DMOZ. Ever wondered who made them, or why? Editor khazar has compiled a great history for us. Happy Halloween! - - - - - - - - - - - - What are the little creatures in every DMOZ category? Well, DMOZ was started by Rich Skrenta in 1998, under the name of Newhoo. But in 1999, Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:45:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12416 About a year ago, we heard from a brand-new editor who shared his experience of his first month with the project. If you've wondered what's happened since then, wonder no more! Editor laigh is back with a follow-up to tell us all about his first (very busy) year with the ODP! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hello again from me, laigh , to all the readers of the DMOZ blog. I hope the last year has been kind to you and it has been a good one. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:59:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12259 We recently ran across this screenshot of a very young DMOZ. Do you remember when the site looked like this? It was May of 1999, and the ODP was about a month shy of its first birthday. The directory was teetering on the half-million site mark in 78,000 categories maintained by 10,000 volunteer editors. Fast-forward to June 5, 2003. A five-year-old DMOZ had attained its now-familiar look and feel. The directory's size had grown more than six-fold to 3. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:31:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11978 One of the most frequently asked questions about DMOZ is what happens once a site is submitted to the directory. To help provide some insight into the review process, editor chaos127 has prepared an excellent and thorough guide to the way in which editors route and review sites. Emily - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Website owners often complain about the time it takes for the sites they suggest to be listed in the Open Directory Project. Indeed, Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:14:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11727 As a new staff member on this project, I wanted to find out what was on the collective minds of the editor community, so a couple of weeks ago, we asked editors to submit their questions about DMOZ. The response was fantastic. We appreciate the thoughtful, insightful questions we received and we're very pleased to be able to answer a few of them here. We've tried to select the ones that would be most representative of the public's questions about the ODP. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:54:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7182 For the last several months, I've been reflecting on what the 10th anniversary of DMOZ actually means. DMOZ is fundamentally the same site it was in 1998. In the social media landscape we're the old timer's with wisdom and tons of life lessons learned. But is that to say its day has come and gone? Absolutely not, and I don't just say that because I've spent the last nine of the past ten years keeping house. In part, Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:10:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5912 Isn't that awesome! We would like to thank to the good folks over at ISEDB.com for the love they sent our way in their post on 'How To Optimize For Google.' A great piece that takes a holistic look at optimizing for search engines and today's this portion spoke to all the types of webmaster tools-including directories that are available. Not that I'm biased, but I think we can all agree that the most exciting take away is that search engines love free, Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Thu, 08 May 2008 13:38:39 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4353 Our official newsletter was originally posted over on Digital Point , but wanted be certain that everyone gets the chance to take a look. Many, many thanks to those who contributed to the development of the newsletter . And for those curious about what the future holds for DMOZ ... click now to learn more. Great insight from our technical team about what is coming down the road. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:49:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3841 Interested in becoming a DMOZ volunteer? Here is another great testimonial from one of our editors in the UK about how they joined and what they've accomplished since. If you have domain expertise, passion for a particular subject and happy to volunteer your time to help create the best directory for that subject...apply! We have more than 590,000 categories in 80 languages and still more than enough room to grow. Here is hiraeth's contribution to the DMOZ Blog. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:12:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3374 Anyone here from Equatorial Guinea ? Perhaps Montserrat or the Cook Islands ? Reason why I ask is that the DMOZ team was amazed to see the global reach of our audience. In February, we saw visitors from 200+ "countries" to DMOZ.org. Not a misprint...200+. That's huge! Everything from heavily industrialized nations to protectorates on far reaches of the Earth with populations of less than 1200 people. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:39:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1626 The sun never sets on the DMOZ community : ) And it is always great to share the perspective of our members from around the planet. Below is a translated version of a post from the French DMOZ blog ( linked below ). The POV it provides is that of someone passionate about a specific subject and a mini documentary on the sign up process to capture your Moz. Best practices, key resources and thing to keep in mind when applying to become and editor. Along with another key point. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:21:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=788 As a follow up to our last post and as a chance to continue allowing our editors the chance to share their experiences with the world at large, here is a post that came to us from a fairly new member of the editorial community. Unlike the previous post about why folks join, this speaks to a perception of DMOZ/ODP as a group of elitist few or a tribe of warring editors. A popular mis-conception that seems to pop up when whenever DMOZ pops up. In fact, Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:19:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=789 Back in our initial post, we mentioned that this site would serve as a forum for editors to share their stories. Why they joined. What they get out of the experience and why it matters to them. Below is the first of many posts from our editors talking about why they joined the community. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:22:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=790 Over the history of the project, DMOZ has had more than 70,000 volunteer editors worldwide. On average, there are approximately 6,000 active editor accounts at any given time. What's impressive (at least to me) is that we do this out of a pure sense of giving back to the Internet Community. Editors take the time to organize and create useful resources in categories and topics that are of interest to us, Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:30:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=791 As the numerous responses to my first post show, this is one of the most common and controversial questions asked about DMOZ. To answer this question, it is important to consider what DMOZ isn't. DMOZ is not set up as a listing service for site owners. Site submissions are only one source for finding quality sites to add to the directory. Some editors choose to review submissions while other editors might prefer to (at first) find sites on their own through search engines, Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:39:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=792 Yesterday the internet was all a flutter with reports and wide ranging theories as to why searches for "DMOZ" in Google were not returning the usual results. If you happened to miss those, I've included a couple of examples that can be found here , here , here and here . While these made for great headlines and no shortage of comments and link backs...they were 100% off the mark. Truth is, Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:01:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=793 Hello and welcome to the new DMOZ blog, the official source for information, insight, and updates about DMOZ , the Open Directory Project ( ODP ). DMOZ is made up of thousands of passionate, volunteer category enthusiasts and experts from all over the world who donate their time to arrange their respective portion of the web. Thanks to their work, DMOZ is a starting place for browsing and searching the web. Search Engines News SEO News DMOZ DMOZ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:00:00 GMT