Back in 2002 I was working at the website of a spiritual organization that has a global operation. I spent time trying to keep the site optimized.
At the time there was an opposing view website that showed up in position 2. I researched why that was the case, even though it didn't seem that the site should show up so well. What I found was that DMOZ had a guideline that opposing view websites to religious and spiritual organizations deserved prominence in search categorization and placement so that their views would be seen.
My questions are:
- DMOZ isn't active as a live directory anymore. I see that the DMOZ category that I first saw in 2002 is still the same on curlie.org. Is Google's algorithm set up to abide by these same guidelines? There are many reasons that the website that I described shouldn’t show up so well from an organic SEO perspective. If Google’s algorithm is the reason it does show up well, that explains it, but doesn’t help.
- What can be done about this, or what process exists to dispute it?
Thank you.
