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The question now becomes - how much of a positive effect will the DMOZ listing have on my Google status? I know that's a relative question, but just curious as to how the DMOZ listing helps with Google category listing.
Should I notice a nice jump in traffic after Google updates their DMOZ results? If so what percent?
P.S. I never would've had a chance at getting that pesky DMOZ listing if it weren't for the good people here at WebmasterWorld...Thanks everybody!
It helps a lot in my experience. I managed to get into DMOZ within a week of having my site online. Google 64.68 found me in a few days, first update after I'd been deepcrawled put my .index at PR5, and after I'd picked up a few more incoming links I had my main page at PR6. All the bots love me including Google. I get backlinks showing up that I never even asked for. You'll be in the Google directory eventually, which gives you nice PR depending on the cat.
It might take a couple of months, but it's good stuff and it will give you a boost.
Interesting question!
In the past my backlinks on Google included a link from their directory as well as one from DMOZ. Checking my current backlinks I cannot find the one from directory.google.com, though the relevant page has PR of 4.
I have no idea whether this is a glitch in the link command, or whether Google have decided to ignore their own directory because of the duplicate content. Strange ...
Update, what update?
link:www.epinions.com/sprt
shows a nice simple one.
Google only shows you half the backlinks that they tell you about. Your google directory entry might be in the half that they are not showing.
