It’s official folks. Dmoz.org is coming out with an amazing 2.0 system! A question a lot of people ask is, “What does the new 2.0 stand for?”
What is Dmoz.org 2.0? What Does the 2.0 Mean? What is the Difference in the New Dmoz?
Webmasters can now enjoy all of the amazing benefits in the new 2.0 improved version:
- Double the wait time–Still not listed after 2 years of prayerful submissions? DOUBLE IT! Now it will take you 4 years (if you ever get in at all). In fact, dmoz is the only thing making me doubt the efficacy of prayer at this point…
- Double the corruption–Even more editors now allow greed to flow through their veins as they prohibit any competitor sites from entering…
- Double the Payoffs–Want in the directory really really badly? Be prepared to pay double to sites like (www.searchmarketingsales.com/DMOZ_submission_services.html)
- Double the rejection–Angry because your site got banned or rejected? Then they will accept your site only to ban you again just for laughs…
- Double the mis-categorized sites—Tire of seeing sites in categories that don’t belong? Double it!
- Double the sites listed–Tired of seeing the same old domain in 5,000 categories, hogging all of the link juice? Double it. That same site will now be in 10,000 categories: compliments of the editor who is gaining a benefit from it…
- Double the Site Requirements–Have a misspelling? Did you accidentally use bad grammar on a page? Did you use then instead of than? Did your website look unattractive to the editor? Sorry, but your site doesn’t meet their requirements…It doubly fails.
- Double the Errors During Submission–Tired of seeing errors when you go to list a site? Double it!
Yep, it is official. Dmoz is double the everything that it used to be. HINT: For those of you who may be slow, this is a satirical/sarcastic post…
Why My Frustrations Toward Dmoz.org 1.0?
I am only one of many webmasters who has repeatedly submitted quality and unique websites to this directory over the past 2-3 years, only to be completely ignored. Meanwhile, a great many sites are loaded up in the directory that absolutely have no value whatsoever.
I think it is incredibly unfair how a webmaster has no chance to get into a directory that is taken so seriously and given such authority by search engines. You have absolutely no recourse as a webmaster. Editors take forever to look at your site, and if they don’t like it, they reject it without warning or explanation. Many editors have been known to purposely ignore your site if it competes with their own listing (this has happened in the past).
I would gladly pay a one time editorial fee of $50-200 just to get in this darn directory (only because Google values it so much). But of course they don’t want to do that for whatever reason. For goodness sakes, either they should step up their game and take the directory seriously and hire real editors without an agenda (even if they have to charge), or Google should completely drop this as a source at all.
Being a Webmaster is Not Fun
I remember starting a website a few years ago. I thought the web worked like this: Whoever had the best site, should be in the top search results position. I was wrong. Unfortunately, it is whoever has the most links, most dmoz.org directory results, and so forth. So sad and unjust. I lose sleep at night thinking of all of the countless websites out there that probably have such useful content, yet never see the light of day because they don’t have enough “links.”
So I guess I will go on and keep being a crappy 2nd rate linkless webmaster all of my days, feeding off any lucky search engine referrals I can get. My motivation to succeed has dried up like a drop of water in the desert sand…
I absolutely refuse to haggle others for a backlink. Why? Because building backlinks sucks. I absolutely think blogging sucks too (not the writing part, just the webmaster part). But for some reason I hang on to my blogs. Why? I have no idea. Yeah, I get a small chunk of change each month, but that isn’t the only reason I hang on. I guess I see hope that one day a site that deserves to be at the top will actually get it. Perhaps I should write a speech on this:
My Speech of a Distraught Webmaster
I have a dream, that my child’s website will be on day be judged–not because of the number (or color) of links, but because of the usefulness of the content.
I have a dream that one day the number of Dmoz directories listings won’t matter, because there will be a better way to classify sites in “REAL TIME.” There will also be real feedback, and real integrity in the process.
I have a dream that one day Wikipedia will NOT get the top result for nearly every search term, and a more useful, unbiased, and better managed site will take over.
I have a dream that one day “PageRank” will come to mean the page number on the bottom page of a book, not a mystical and forbidden algorithm used to value your site.
I have a dream, that one day webmasters will no longer have to waste time building backlinks, or commenting on forums or blogs, or waste time submitting to directories that will simply ignore them–all in hopes of getting their website known. Instead, they can do what they really want to do anyway: build useful websites and create content.
I have a dream that one day all spam will vanish from the internet, and people will actually market in ethical ways.
I have a dream, that I will get to see at least one of the above come true before I draw my last breath on this Earth…