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This is the third month that I've written emails to DMOZ editors to get relisted in yahoo and google directories. When my site is finally in the search results... poof, it's gone the next morning? And doesn't come back until I write more emails.
One editor checked to see if I was banned, and they said I was in good standing. I've tried to contact yahoo and google reps. for their advice, but with very little luck. Now it's month three of this.
So, here are my questions in any order:
1 Is someone sabotaging? (paranoid again)
2 Who can I contact about this?
3 Am I inadvertantly stopping the search engines from caching my site?
And most importantly,
4 Do you know any sure fire way to stay listed? (I haven't paid for the inclusion service)
Thanks so much,
Mark.
Long live WebmasterWorld.
....I've written emails to DMOZ editors to get relisted in yahoo and google directories.
DMOZ editors have no control over the usage of their data by other "downstream" services, such as Google.
So if you are writing to DMOZ editors about Yahoo or Google, you are wasting your time, and theirs.
Best to contact Yahoo or Google direct.
On the other hand, there is an excellent resource for contacting DMOZ editors about site status in DMOZ itself. But WMW TOS service forbid the URL being posted. So not much help from WMW on this issue either. You'll have to find it yourself, or appeal to WMW moderators for a change of policy.
You can use Googles add-url page or get some links going to your site from others.
Yahoo has it's own submission process....
Why would you contact editors at dmoz to be listed in Yahoo or Google?
By the sounds of other threads, there are a lot of frustrated webmasters affected by google, although I'm not sure my incidents are related.
