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We've had our site listed for several years in the DMOZ and as a result it has always shown up properly on Yahoo!, Google, AOL, etc. We've always been listed under the Shopping > Antiques and Collectibles > Resources and Information category. It appears that for some reason that category has now disappeared and now (for the past two months) we are no longer showing up on any of the search engines. Whenever folks would type in "my keyword" or "my other keyword" we would come up consistenly on the first page of all of the SE. Now - we don't come up anywhere. This is seriously hurting our business as no new clients are finding us. If anyone has any ideas that could help it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Joseph Gutwirth
[edited by: NFFC at 10:41 pm (utc) on Dec. 9, 2002]
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Two primary suggestions: First, work on getting other good quality links to your site. DMOZ is usually a very good link that doesn't cost anything, but because many categories have editing backlogs you should work on other fronts - search here for link finding techniques and you'll get some good strategies.
As far as DMOZ goes, first I'd suggest figuring out if you are out of the directory completely. If so, then resubmit to an appropriate category. If you don't get listed in a couple of weeks, try contacting the editor of that cat. If that fails, try moving up the tree and contacting the next level editor, and so on.
Was DMOZ your only good link? It's kind of surprising that losing that one caused you to tank so completely.
Good luck!
PS. A mod will most likely remove your URL from your post due to the terms of service here...
Sincerely,
Joseph
Any plans to get dug into it in the near future?
NFFC wrote: Any plans to get dug into it in the near future?
LOL.
Looks like an interesting cat, no afilliation of course, maybe one that should be nudged along a bit.
