centime - 10:53 am on Jul 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

I am not a dmoz advocate, rather I am keen the directory business, an have been for a while.

I see that directories are going to have to work extremely hard to win the hearts and minds of folk who have been

"weaned" on SE usage an feel that their current habits are necessarily correct or shared by everyone else, or even particularly good for them

There are perhaps 5 major search engines out there

There are multiple thousands of private directories out there, many of whom you will assuredly sneer at as been johnny come latelys, unecessary, un inventive, etc etc etc

However, these thousands of directory owners are spend $100s each an in many cases thousands $$s each to market themselves, they are more likely to offer you money to advertise on your websites than Google , yahoo or msn, who offer you adsense/ypn instead. An this is escalating

Does common sense not suggest that at some point,

10,000 directory owners spending a few thousand dollars each year to market themselves are going to be drawing more an more people to them

So, most of us are amateurs, but i assure you , SE's an directories have a curious relationship. an if you think the owners of the multiple thousands of directories are going to leave the major SE's in quiet possession of the search market,

I suggest you think again,

Get listed in directories, the traffic may be small now, but , there is a growing , infact surging movement to win a share of the search market going on,

As for dmoz, do leave em alone, they are quaint people pursuing their own thing, an soon enough , even google might go elsewhere,

Over the last year, SE's have stopped indexing links from dmoz clones, just check your yahoo/google back link checkers