DMOZ penalized by Google

**u474755** · 03-21-2008, 05:52 PM

No. I was pretty easy for me. Just go to the DMOZ site and find the category you want to be listed in. Then just hit the link for "suggest a site". You just have to fill out the form and submit it. It is a human reviewed site, which takes a little while to get in, but as long as you have a legitimate site, you should get in.

**kdobbs** · 04-21-2008, 10:55 AM

Wow. I've had trouble getting my site listed in the DMOZ too. Jenna Ryan at TheMarketingShop.com says that Google has more likely downgraded the value of DMOZ listing as opposed to removing or penalizing sites within the directory. This is a good thing!

**Honeycomb Properties** · 05-08-2008, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by kdobbs

Wow. I've had trouble getting my site listed in the DMOZ too. Jenna Ryan at TheMarketingShop.com says that Google has more likely downgraded the value of DMOZ listing as opposed to removing or penalizing sites within the directory. This is a good thing!

Google penalized (downgraded) DMOZ's value which directly affected some sites strongly ranked due mainly to DMOZ.

**jamesww** · 05-08-2008, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by Honeycomb Properties

Google penalized (downgraded) DMOZ's value which directly affected some sites strongly ranked due mainly to DMOZ.

DMOZ is still the granddaddy of all links when it comes to google and google's indexing is still based on DMOZ. In fact if you get a link added to DMOZ you will see a less then 24 hr period to indexing.