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Will my site still show on Google if it is removed from DMOZ?

         

rrmadore

10:12 pm on Sep 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



If my site was removed from DMOZ will it still show up on google, hotbot, netscape etc.?

Thanks

Quadrille

11:36 am on Sep 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



If you are removed from ODP, your site will eventually fall out of all the directories that use the ODP data, as and when they download a new version. in some cases, that can be many months, though the 'bigger' ones tend to update reasonably regularly, often 4-6 weekly.

As for the [i]search engines[/b] - they are completely separate. For them, it would depend on why you were removed, and if whatever you did broke their TOS, in which case they may also remove your site.

Difference being that directories are human-edited, while the SEs use software. So the risks of breaking TOS vary.