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The number of editors given is the cumulative number since the existence of the directory. Every person who ever added a single site is included here. The number of currently active editors usually oscillates somewhere between 6000 and 8000, depending on the criteria you want to use for declaring someone "currently active" (eg. logged in and edited within the last 1-4 months).
GO ON THE ODP
New sites would be interesting.
When did they roll over 3.5 million? Was that just this week?
Tara - You're certainly one of the people who make best use of it. Welcome to the board, and a special thank you for your newsletter....
But I'd still like a new sites feature on Dmoz. :-> Right now what I do is monitor some categories with WebSite Watcher, but that's tedious and I know I'm missing some things (I only monitor about eleven categories.)
I got an e-mail from an editor stating that her cat wasn't appropriate for my site. I wrote her back to inform her that I could put the cat description at the top of my home page as a summary of my site! :-II
If I remember correctly, then Lycos had such a feature at one time, where they would highlight all sites that had been added between their last two updates. In fact, I really think this is something that should be implemented by the data users, if at all, and not the ODP itself.
I'm with you Dpeper. I've been waiting at least eight months. :(
ADDED ... just started today cataloging PR of DMOZ cats and comparing to the original PR when pages were accepted.
All but one went up a full PR level and 3 went up 2 levels.
I'm assuming that clones are helping this!
Ultimately the increase PR will assist client sites as well.
1 cat was a PR3 now PR5
2 cat was a PR4 now PR6
just started today cataloging PR of DMOZ cats and comparing to the original PR when pages were accepted.All but one went up a full PR level and 3 went up 2 levels.
Just to get the syntax straight, are you saying that you're cataloging the PR of DMOZ cats, or that you're cataloging the PR of sites listed in DMOZ cats. I assume you mean that it's the PR of the sites that is going up, but your antecedents aren't clear.
fewer than 100 backlinks will be pr 5 or below
100-500 range = pr 6, occassionally 5 or 7
etc...
Ditto, are you talking here about the number of backlinks a site has, or a DMOZ cat has? Again, are you saying that the PR of the cats themselves is going up over time, or that the PR of the sites listed in the cats is going up?
Just to get the syntax straight, are you saying that you're cataloging the PR of DMOZ cats, or that you're cataloging the PR of sites listed in DMOZ cats. I assume you mean that it's the PR of the sites that is going up, but your antecedents aren't clear.
As I only submit pages to DMOZ I keep a log of:
1. page submitted
2. date submitted
3. which cat
4. no#1 of current listings
5. anchor text (page title submitted)
6. description submitted
7. current page PR
and then monitor log files.
once listed
7. anchor and description listed by editor
8. Cat PR
9. add link on the page to directory cat
when googlebot crawls page, remove link.
10. monitor backlinks in AllTheWeb.com when a DMOZ clone appears with grey google bar, submit to google.
11. after each google crawl edit log PR's page and cats, any new listings etc.
12. note when added to google directories.
Although most clones turn out to be PR0 have found many PR4 - 6, a few PR7's and 1 PR8.
All but regional listing in DMOZ cats increased since June crawl and so has many of my pages.
Ditto, are you talking here about the number of backlinks a site has, or a DMOZ cat has? Again, are you saying that the PR of the cats themselves is going up over time, or that the PR of the sites listed in the cats is going up?
actually both, my page backlinks grow proportional to DMOZ cat backlinks in most instances. The clones point to DMOZ, my pages (as well as my competitors within the cats).
Although other sites listed gain PR as well (and you could say at my expense) the rewards are far greater.
Each month DMOZ back links inducing higher PR some of which is transferred to my pages. My backlinks grow as well increasing my own PR which is transferred to other sites in association.
Even on cats that are PR1 or 2, all it means is "not enough backlinks", you can easily induce PR since clones are a dime a dozen! The best cats therefore are the ones with the least listings, more PR for me and generally faster acceptence in DMOZ.
In general, (although I don't track) I have far more DMOZ listings than any competitor. (some day maybe this will be common knowledge and they'll paid me for all the hard work I did for them for free).
(NOTE: twenty years in submarines allows you to "fathom" things from the bottom up).
What about applying to be an editor? You may find quite a few sites to add.
Considered that... but a biased opinion.
Don't mind competition, but if given the power would remove all the PR0 sites!
Is that 3,553,877 sites waiting to be reviewed?
ODP are an unresponsive hulking giant. Give it some money or give it a rest.
But they do share!!!
Paul
Dmoz is pretty useless IMHO. It brings us little traffic, they don't respond to my emails surrounding a rejected application to be an editor (I applied to be an editor for the small town in which I am based, which had no editor, but was told my selection was too broad), and there are numerous reports of unreviewed submissions. What's worse, they still have editors on there freely adding multiple links to their own pages (multiple pages from within one domain, I'm meaning)...
As DMOZ is primarily a research directory it is quite possible that little research is needed in some categories.
For a client - Just 1 page from 1 site gets 300+ visitors a day (although not from DMOZ) the same listings now appears in AOL directory and #1 SERP in google both of which are directly associated with the DMOZ acceptance.
As far as the application to become an editor at DMOZ and the response was too broad, might I suggest reapplying and being more focused.
In addition, some web masters apply just to list their pages and this tends to reflect your
they still have editors on there freely adding multiple links to their own pages
Try again, for the right reasons, you will be accepted... broad can mean you wish to do the same as the above example. Starting small (1 category/sub cat) allows creditability to be developed before letting you loose to help everyone!
[edited by: fathom at 9:11 pm (utc) on July 14, 2002]
