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December 7, 2005

DMOZ Scavenger Hunt

Posted by Sarah King in Directory Management, Fun and SEO Games

There are plenty who are quick to insult DMOZ and the people who work to make it work. I won’t go into that here, it will acheive nothing.

However, over at DigitalPoint a member (wrmineo) started a DMOZ Scavenger Hunt to find categories that had not been edited in years.

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November 15, 2005

Skaffe.com melts down?

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

Skaffe.com is a big directory with paid and free submissions that has ambitions to topple DMOZ.

They have a way to go to but the directory has lasted a few years and continues to grow.

I just wanted to check something out tonight and found I could get the index page but none of the categories - and the index looked pretty broken too.

Skaffe have an important role to play, lets hope they don’t stay broken for long!

August 20, 2005

Managing Directory Submissions

Posted by Sarah King in Directory Management

I got an IM from a friend today who has a directory over at Firetown. He’s got another friend helping him wade through the submissions (lads, how about mine?) More »

July 9, 2005

DMOZ is Corrupt? I don’t think so

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

The major forums seem to have nasty little threads popping up left, right and centre about corruption at DMOZ. It’s hard to believe there’s anything other than the occasional individual having a go, but some are claiming orchestrated campaigns. More »

April 2, 2005

New Zealand (NZ) Directory

Posted by Sarah King in Directory Management, Search Engine Optimisation

I have created a New Zealand (NZ) Directory over on my Botspotter site (gotta use it for something) and it even has an NBO category to hold all the sites that I found when scanning the NBO site which I suspect of proforma scams (see earlier post on NBO).

I was going to see if I could add them to my Property Investment Directory but decided to keep them quite separate and to use Duncan Carver’s script.

The directory system itself was a breeze to install with the only issue being, perhaps, the naming of the folders. You do need to be on a *nix box with safe mode turned off. It imported with ease and allowed me to get started with a large amount of content from NZ DMOZ. It gives a few key links at the bottom of the page and you’re required to leave them in place - no doubt paying for Duncan’s time And I feel the default templates should automatically state that some of the categories will be boosted by DMOZ data.

All in all though, a big thumbs up to Duncan. Thank you!