KW in DMOZ description seem to be....

heavily weighted.

[glengara]

When looking at the cache of one of the top results for website promotion 'country', you get "these terms only appear in links pointing to this page: promotion".
G doesn't show any links, and according to Fast it has just one, and the link text doesn't mention "promotion", however it does have a newish DMOZ listing with "promotion" in the description.

Y'all may have been aware of this, but I didn't realise that KWs in the DMOZ description carried quite so much weight (apparently).

[lazerzubb]

Is it in the description or the anchor text, also they might be using cloaking.

Remember there is more than 100 factors in Google ranking, and they might match a lot the "on the page" factors.

[jamsy]

I have also noticed this over last few months and went to the dmoz cat editor for a revision of description.

The kind chap accepted a revision and changed it so now just waiting for google to update from the rdf dump for the new descriptions - since old ones still showing. ;)

[glengara]

Lazerzubb,it's not the ranking question I'm particularly interested in, it's the way G seems to view and give weight to "promotion" in the DMOZ description.
As I mentioned, apart from the DMOZ listing Fast only sees one other link to the page, and "promotion" isn't on it.