John_Caius - 8:41 pm on Apr 4, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hello, I'm the dmoz editor in question.

What really happened here was the site was built quickly on a very hot health topic (can we guess?), with half of each page dedicated to affiliate links to products meant to assist in treating said health problem.

If you look in the newly created category for this hot health topic, you will see high quality health sites like the World Health Organisation advice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advice and links to news articles from the major news sources on the development of this health story. The site in question was not providing unique content.

Building a site like this in the hope of quick traffic and quick profit is not something the ODP supports. A similar situation occurred relatively recently on the Resource Zone board when a site was built quickly to cash in on the sudden death of a major pop star.

Nothing's to say you can't SEO the site as much as you can - it just goes against the ODP guidelines. Sorry.

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"Products for the widget enthusiast" - more like products to cash in on the widespread public unease currently being felt worldwide. The equivalent of selling all-over body suits after the anthrax scares in the US.

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