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The dump has not been updated since Sept 22, so thousands of sites have not made any of the changes in DMOZ since then.
I fear DMOZ has some terminal programming problems! Or, worse...they are not supplying it anymore!
The DMOZ dump previous to Sept 22 was delayed because of programming errors. I have never seen this long a delay in DMOZ creating a new dump...it is affecting thousands of sites. It is very suspicious!
I have never seen this long a delay in DMOZ creating a new dump...it is affecting thousands of sites. It is very suspicious!
If you have been reading other threads on DMOZ within this forum you would see there has been quite a bit of downtime/backlogs in most areas of operation. This is caused by several upgrades and maintenance to the servers/system.
This is not a conspiracy to yours/others sites. ;)
Google crawls DMOZ and picks the sites up that way. It usually takes 1 or 2 updates for Google to get all the newly added DMOZ listings.
No, Google uses the RDF. I just picked up a really small cat as an ODP editor. There were three sites listed in that which have been dead and redirecting to somewhere unrelated for over a year. The Google directory still lists these sites, but with no PR listed as Googlebot has pegged these sites as being dead. Thus Google is treating the ODP listings different than its own index, where they won't list a site they know is dead. The latest RDF dump from the ODP is rather late on schedule.
However, Google almost certainly basis PageRank on what it finds spidering the DMOZ itself. I notice the DMOZ can update fairly quick. Those 3 sites I deleted know longer show at dmoz.org. Thus if Googlebot were to crawl the ODP today, the other sites listed should get a higher PR tansferred to them now that the three dead sites are gone. Since general wisdom is that PR gets calculated early in the crawl, that would mean this boost won't show until the Nov. update.
