Help with Alternate Engines

Ones that use DMOZ

[4crests]

Ok, I'm a little stupid when it comes to DMOZ. I haven't given it a lot of attention. I was listed pretty quickly a few years ago when I applied, and have been happy since.

However, several of my competitors are listed in hundreds of other small search engines that seem to use DMOZ data. I am also in MOST of them, but there are some that I am not. Should I submit to these small search engines individually?

When I click on "submit site", it just forwards me to the DMOZ site. I am reluctant to submit again because I don't want DMOZ to think I'm spamming them. This is probably a stupid question, but it's been bugging me for a while. Should I go ahead and submit to each one that I'm not in?

Do these small search engines just pull data from DMOZ as they see fit? They somtimes only have a small portion of the listings for each category.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I know i've read posts in the past about this, but I couldn't seem to find them.

[jeffb]

It won't help to reapply. The sites, as you say, are pulling listings from DMOZ, or rather, they pulled listings from DMOZ sometime before you were listed. Nothing you do with DMOZ will change their listings. The only way their listings will update is if the site owners take the initiative to get the latest listings and, from what I've seen, most of them are quite content with 2, 3, 4 year old listings.

[IITian]

4crests,

From what I have read here, traffic generated by smaller search engines is very negligible for almost all sites. My guess is that after the top dozen or so SEs (perhaps the top 5-6), the rest generate about 1-2% or less of traffic in total. In my view, not worth bothering with them.

Also, jeffb is right about those SEs relying on old data.

Have you checked your website log?

[g1smd]

There are many sites with very old copies of the ODP. Write to those sites and tell them that new data is published almost every week at [rdf.dmoz.org...] and the file now contains nearly 4 million listings. Useful technical information also linked from [rodan.ncc.com...] for users of that data.

[4crests]

Great, thanks guys. I will write them. I'm not so interested in the traffic it will bring as I am gaining a few links. I've wondered about this for a while now, and I am glad to finally know the answer.