The Open Directory Project ODP, http://dmoz.org, is the most important
taxonomic directory on the Web. Formally hosted and administered by the Netscape
division of AOL, the ODP is run along the lines of an open source project.
The ODP believes that web-automated search is ineffective, and
getting worse, and that the small contingent of paid editors at commercial web
search engine companies cannot keep up with the staggering rate of change on the
Webdecaying stagnant sites, link rot, new sites, sites intended as search spam,
and so on.
The ODP is run and maintained by a vast army of volunteer
editors. These editors follow internal checks and balances to keep the integrity
of the directory. See http://dmoz.org/guidelines/ for more information about the ODP
review process and guidelines for site inclusion.
You, too, can become an ODP editor in an area of your interest
and expertise. See http://dmoz.org/help/become.html for more information about
becoming an ODP editor. This is a partially facetious suggestion, but one of the
most effective ways to use SEO to promote your sites is to follow the patterns
and practices of the ODP to get your sites included. You'll find an FAQ about
how to add your site at http://www.dmoz.org/add.html this FAQ is also
available via a link from the ODP home page.
Search Engine Keywords, Directories, Link Development, Marketing, Optimization, Promotion, News, Spiders, Submission, and more. Two major directories, the Yahoo Directory and. To avoid undesirable content in the search indexes, webmasters can instruct spiders not to crawl certain files or directories through the standard robots txt file in the root directory of the domain.
The ODP taxonomy (categorization system) and the sites included
in the categories are freely available as data for use by anyone who wants to
run their own search engine as long as the terms of the ODP's free-use license
is complied with.
Google, and most of the major search engines, do use
information derived from the ODP, but each major search engine uses it in their
own way. With Google in particular, information from the ODP is used to form the
Google Directory, http://directory.google.com.
Most significant, inclusion within an ODP category means that
your site is very likely to be included within the Google Web index (as well as
the Google Directory, and in other major web indices) as a high-ranking result
for searches within that category.
So it's worth submitting your site to the ODP, if only because
it's the best way to get indexed by search engines, including Googleand, to a
significant extent, to manage how your site is categorized.
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