Ah, DMOZ.
Whilst I was scanning through Barry’s blog at SEL, I came across this post he mentioned entitled R-E-S-P-E-C-T for DMOZ.
A DMOZ editor complains “Everybody loves Google, everybody loves Wikipedia - so why doesn’t everybody love DMOZ?”
My blog post would be rather long if I listed all the reasons why I think people don’t love DMOZ, so I’ll stick to fisking the contents of the editors post.
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Posted by Tom_C
While answering Q&A the other day it occurred to me that a lot of questions we see are basically the same question asked over and over again in different formats. In answering these questions we often end up re-using the same responses time and time again so I thought it would be a good idea to create a bit of an FAQ based off some of the most informative questions and answers which we’ve answered over the past couple of years.
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Ralph Tegtmeier (aka fantomaster) has been known for many years as having one of the most insightful minds and original voices in the search game. Years ago I wanted to interview him, and only recently did we get to do that.
What did you do before you got into search?
In contrast to the maverick background and achievements my old friend Mike Grehan revealed in his recent interview with SEOBook, my life before search was positively boring. I was born in Egypt and grew up in the Middle East and Asia, where my father served terms in the German diplomatic service. Later, I mastered in Comparative Literature, English Literature and Portuguese philology at Bonn University in Germany. Even before that, I had founded and run (together with two fellow students) an occult bookshop there and went into freelance translation and writing after that.
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Posted by randfish
“Reference worthy content” is a phrase you’ll hear a lot in the SEO realm. The intent behind the statement is simple - build content that people will be likely to cite when they create works on the web. Parsing the motivations that inspire those citations, however, is anything but obvious. Tonight, I thought I’d try to list features that make content “reference worthy” and help to shed some insight on the psychological catalysts that build natural links.
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Lately I’ve noticed a lot of questions in Q&A centering on purchasing expired domains. A lot of our members have expressed interest in buying old domains for a variety of prices (some are cheap, some are going for upwards of $50k) and want some advice on what to do with the domains once they’ve been purchased. I’m no domainer, nor am I an expert in such a business tactic, but I generally recommend one of three different options for an expired domain (and would love to hear more if you’ve got any).
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Hello, my name is Tom, you’ve seen me guest blog here before but today I’m blogging and ill. So I’m going to dispense with the usual chit-chat approach and lay out the facts. Some of you may even like it that way! Shame on you. Still, here’s the content.
Google Base aka Google Shopping aka Google Products
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Yes, there can be too much of a good thing, and that includes SEO. There are a lot of mistakes you can make when trying to optimize your site for your target terms, and keyword stuffing is just the beginning. In this video we’ll look at common traps people fall into that can make your site unpleasant for users and unpalatable for search engines.
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Last week we discussed how you can actually hurt yourself by over-using or abusing common SEO tactics on your sites. This week we’ll talk about how going overboard with your linking strategy can cause problems too. We’re not looking at spam here, we’re looking at things like unnatural link profiles or anchor text distribution. Watch the video and make sure you’re not accidentally hurting yourself by going too far with your off-site SEO efforts.
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