Top Keywords of Certain Google Directories

[windybam]

I need urgent help in this matter.
My boss had ask me to go certain directories associated with our company in Google. For Eg " Coating Services ", ETC...and I need to find out under these certain categories, what are the keywords that are most likely to enable our website to be listed under those CAT and hopefully a higher ranking?
Thanks in advance for the help

[Alphawolf]

windybaum,

I'm not really sure what info you are asking. :)

You should know your website best and check your server logs to see what sort of searches people use to find you.

Google's Directory is taken from dmoz.org and you must submit to each individual category [if you really have unique offerings] manually.

A human editor will eventually check the page you submit. It will take a rather long time to get listed depending upon your category.

How long? 6mos-1yr or thereabouts, but it will vary a lot per category.

Usually, sites only get ONE category listing plus a Regional Listing. Regional listings are fairly quick to get from my experience.

Not sure how anyone here can help you with what keywords help you get listed to a category?

You provide a description and a human will look at the site/page and determine if it's appropriate for that category. Of course the content on the website MUST represent what the category is all about or your site will be rejected.

Why has your boss decided it is 'urgent' to be listed in Googles Directory listing? Does the site rank well under important key phrases on Google's regular search?

I'm sure folks will correct me if I gave wrong info...

Regards,

AW

[rfgdxm1]

>How long? 6mos-1yr or thereabouts, but it will vary a lot per category.

Wrong. The range is more like a few hour to a few years. Just yesterday as an ODP editor I reviewed and added a site less than 2 hours after it was submitted. If someone submits a guidelines compliant site to the regional cat of my home town where I can edit, if it takes a week to get reviewed that would mean that I have exceeded my record for laziness. There are a lot of areas of the ODP where the queues are short.

[Powdork]

rfgdxm has a point. there are editors such as myself who are chomping at the bit in certain categories so they can get more editorial privileges. My recent example is a bit different. I received a new site in the cue which was filled with hidden links and text, was inappropriate for the cat, listed the regional location in the title and the description (ok, so I did that my first time) along with numerous other fouls. This site was rejected within hours.

[Alphawolf]

Wrong. The range is more like a few hour to a few years.

Hence, the reason why I stated it will vary a lot depending upon category. ;)

How long will dmoz be down? Saw the thread and checked just this AM (EST) and couldn't get to the site.

I checked with resource zone for my own site and was told it would be a 'while'. It's been 5+ months now.

AW

[rfgdxm1]

I'm also a Maytag repairman at the ODP Powdork. ;) In my case, what happened is I was editor of a third level cat which has thousands of sites in all the child cats. I applied for the second level cat up the tree with about 100 sites listed, and after getting that resigned the third level cat. Some other editor has since been approved for that third level cat. Thus, I now have little to do. :( I'll likely have to do some cross checking with other directories, and do some Google searching, to see if some obvious, large sites out there that should be listed aren't, and add those that I find. (For the newbies reading who are unaware, there is nothing in the ODP rules that prevents an editor from adding sites that haven't been submitted. For example, if I find a local brick and mortar business in my home town has a website from seeing this in a newspaper advertisement, I could add that in Regional.)

As for the spam Powdork, trust me you can get this no matter where you edit in the ODP. None of the cats I edit are tend be be spam magnets, but that doesn't stop the spammers from trying anyway. :( I've wondered how bad things really are over in Shopping? I just noticed an @link in a cat I edit to Shopping which has 360 listed sites, and 369 greens. Looks scary over there. ;)

[rfgdxm1]

>How long will dmoz be down? Saw the thread and checked just this AM (EST) and couldn't get to the site.

The ODP is up on the editor side. I'm in right now. Try the public mirror: [ch.dmoz.org...]

>I checked with resource zone for my own site and was told it would be a 'while'. It's been 5+ months now.

Shopping perchance?

[Powdork]

How long will dmoz be down? Saw the thread and checked just this AM (EST) and couldn't get to the site.

I just tried and got through on the first try even. It is really sad that I really mean that.

[Alphawolf]

Shopping perchance?

Nope. Computers/internet/web design...

AW