Mikkel Moldrup-Lakjer wrote:

>
> Is this for sure? If Google disregards directories, will there still
> be good reason to pay $200+ for a listing in the Yahoo! directory?

was there ever a good reason to pay Yahoo $200?

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"davidof" <david.george@g-dumpthisbit-mail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:429d7ad9$0$303$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr...
> Mikkel Moldrup-Lakjer wrote:
>
>>
>> Is this for sure? If Google disregards directories, will there still
>> be good reason to pay $200+ for a listing in the Yahoo! directory?
>
> was there ever a good reason to pay Yahoo $200?

I sincerely doubt it!

No, I have not paid :-)

I was surprised to see that my page had reached PageRank 4 without me
doing anything to promote it, really, except submitting it to the DMOZ
directory. Maybe the DMOZ is the reason.

Mikkel
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Excellent tuitino and social involvement

On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:48:23 +0200, Big Bill <kruse@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

>> DMOZ still checks sites by hand. Or rather doesn't check and doesn't
>> include them for quite some time.

> I've said this before - DMOZ is an idea who's time has gone. No-one
> seems to care over there any more.

Funny thing. Sometime *****ing works. They just included my site

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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message news:<d7hr5l$ovp$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>...
>
> What's more, I wanted to mention that Google exclude (or are about to
> exclude) directories from their engine. Who knows if Yahoo and MSN will
> soon follow. I find it hard to believe that more than a handful of people,
> real people, will actually /follow/ links from these directories.

Is this for sure? If Google disregards directories, will there still
be good reason to pay $200+ for a listing in the Yahoo! directory?

Mikkel

Guide til Guatemala:
http://lakjer.dk/mikkel/

http://www.internet-search-engines-f...irectory.shtml

this as well

Mark

"Daniel Ruscoe" <danruscoe@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d066065a5f12e8b7c@news.btopenworld.com.. .
> Does anybody remember the URL of a massive list of web directories that
> was posted here some time ago?
>
> The directories were listed alphabetically and had their Google PR next
> to them.
>
> I had it in my bookmarks but I've managed to loose it. Any help would be
> fantastic.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>

ca.yahoo.com free submission still active

mark

"Mikkel M?ldrup-Lakjer" <mikkel@fabel.dk> wrote in message
news:429d806a$0$18638$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
>
>
> "davidof" <david.george@g-dumpthisbit-mail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:429d7ad9$0$303$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr...
> > Mikkel Moldrup-Lakjer wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Is this for sure? If Google disregards directories, will there still
> >> be good reason to pay $200+ for a listing in the Yahoo! directory?
> >
> > was there ever a good reason to pay Yahoo $200?
>
> I sincerely doubt it!
>
> No, I have not paid :-)
>
> I was surprised to see that my page had reached PageRank 4 without me
> doing anything to promote it, really, except submitting it to the DMOZ
> directory. Maybe the DMOZ is the reason.
>
> Mikkel
> --
> Study Spanish in Guatemala
> http://lakjer.dk/mikkel/spanish.shtml
> Excellent tuitino and social involvement
>
>
>
>

On 31 May 2005 15:16:23 -0700, mikkelml@gmail.com (Mikkel
Moldrup-Lakjer) wrote:

>Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message news:<d7hr5l$ovp$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>...
>>
>> What's more, I wanted to mention that Google exclude (or are about to
>> exclude) directories from their engine. Who knows if Yahoo and MSN will
>> soon follow. I find it hard to believe that more than a handful of people,
>> real people, will actually /follow/ links from these directories.
>
>Is this for sure? If Google disregards directories, will there still
>be good reason to pay $200+ for a listing in the Yahoo! directory?
>
>Mikkel
>
>Guide til Guatemala:
>http://lakjer.dk/mikkel/

Nothing is for sure until some time after it's happened.

BB
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mark | r wrote:

> ca.yahoo.com free submission still active

The directory of use only if your business or site is somehow affiliated
with Canada. It appear so anyway.

> "Mikkel M?ldrup-Lakjer" <mikkel@fabel.dk> wrote in message
> news:429d806a$0$18638$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
>>
>>
>> "davidof" <david.george@g-dumpthisbit-mail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
>> news:429d7ad9$0$303$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr...
>> > Mikkel Moldrup-Lakjer wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Is this for sure? If Google disregards directories, will there still
>> >> be good reason to pay $200+ for a listing in the Yahoo! directory?
>> >
>> > was there ever a good reason to pay Yahoo $200?
>>
>> I sincerely doubt it!
>>
>> No, I have not paid :-)

The smile of a man who has seen others paying $200 in vain. If popularity
could be bought so easily, something would definitely be wrong.

>> I was surprised to see that my page had reached PageRank 4 without me
>> doing anything to promote it, really, except submitting it to the DMOZ
>> directory. Maybe the DMOZ is the reason.

I heard about people whose sites got PR4 because of some fundamental links
that they were not even aware of. I am not very surprised and it might not
be owing to DMOZ.

>> Mikkel
>> --
>> Study Spanish in Guatemala
>> http://lakjer.dk/mikkel/spanish.shtml
>> Excellent tuitino and social involvement

Mark, your E-mail/NNTP client does not omit signatures. It appears to 'eat'
that whitespace after the dashes too, which then affects follow-ups.

Roy

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Jez wrote:
>
>
>>>What's more, I wanted to mention that Google exclude (or are about to
>>>exclude) directories from their engine.
>>
>>Roy, would you mind quoting a source for the above information please?
>>
>>That would be a very dramatic U turn for google as it seems to prefer
>>directories above all else in some SERPs.
>>
>>Jez.
>
>
> It took me like 5 minutes to find the URL for you, but here it is:

Thanks for finding that Roy. I appreciate your time!

It's very interesting and I wouldn't mind betting that the root of this
is what is disrupting sites hit by "bourbon". Changing the weight given
to directory listings and clones of DMOZ.

Jez wrote:


> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Jez wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>What's more, I wanted to mention that Google exclude (or are about to
>>>>exclude) directories from their engine.
>>>
>>>Roy, would you mind quoting a source for the above information please?
>>>
>>>That would be a very dramatic U turn for google as it seems to prefer
>>>directories above all else in some SERPs.
>>>
>>>Jez.
>>
>>
>> It took me like 5 minutes to find the URL for you, but here it is:
>
> Thanks for finding that Roy. I appreciate your time!
>
> It's very interesting and I wouldn't mind betting that the root of this
> is what is disrupting sites hit by "bourbon". Changing the weight given
> to directory listings and clones of DMOZ.

The reason I oppose this is two-fold:

1. The original writers have nothing to protect them from this plagiarism.
If some lady in Berkshire wrote in her Geocities homepage about how to cook
blackberry pie and she then found a copy on a PR7 dot com site, would she
sue?

2. Search engines penalise for duplicates. How will the SE's know which one
is the original? It is more likely that the Geocities page is owned by a
low-profile person who mirrored a popular page.

It is easy to get visitors to a site. One can just automatically archive
newsgroups, but where has all the fun gone?

Roy

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