vetofunk - 7:21 pm on Jul 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

This may be a good test for those of you who are interested. My family owns a jewelry company and we have 4 sites; 1 local company site B&M and other 3 are full ecommerce sites focusing on specific types of jewelry. They were all listed in DMOZ.

Well about 2 weeks ago DMOZ removed all of them except the local B&M site. One of them was in DMOZ for the past 4 years (site is 5 years old) the other for 2 years (site is 3 years old) and the last was just added about 2 months ago (site is 6 months old). They are all on page 1 for their competitive main terms.

I am going to see if I start seeing any drop in positioning from this loss. This could give us an idea if DMOZ is really worth it's weight.

I would suspect that the newest site would lose some positioning, but I think the other two older sites have built up enough trust to weather any possible storm.