Yahoo Listing and DMOZ

dmoz listing makes a big difference for me

[axgrindr]

I had a problem with my site a while ago where it has a top ten listing for my main keyword phrase in Google but listed on page 6 or 7 in Yahoo for the same phrase. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong in the eyes of Yahoo.

I then noticed that my DMOZ listing was pointing to an old out-of-date URL on a different site. I did a 301 redirect to my main site then submitted an update request to DMOZ.

To my surprise DMOZ actually updated it and my Yahoo ranking shot up from #64 to #15 in one day and is slowly rising as I gain more inbound links everyday.

With my DMOZ listing update at least I have a fighting chance to get on page 1 now.

[giggle]

Axe

Similar situation for us. On the 20th August Yahoo started using our 'real' home page and we jumped from nowhere to page #1 for some really competitive terms. Then on the 24th Yahoo switched back to using the DMOZ entry (title/metas) and we dropped way back. I'd love to know how to tell Yahoo to stop looking at our DMOZ page settings.

[rocker]

I'd love to know how to tell Yahoo to stop looking at our DMOZ page settings.

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[giggle]

Rock on Rocker. I've added that Meta tag to our two DMoz entries. I'll post back when (if) there's an effect.