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Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
13 Comments
Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
13 Comments
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Beautiful Move Guys! Brilliant!
Woah, this made it to the Sphinn homepage in less than 100 minutes. The world loves BOTW!
Congrats to BOTW & their new employees. Not sure what they've bought. ODP has 1000s of editors. What these folks are *taking* is the experience of a community. Not the community or its value. DMOZ is the source and managed by volunteers...this is why Search Engines start with ODP.
ODP loses over 30 editors. Now they'll be slow. Oh, wait a second...
That is not good good news for SEOs, the last few listings I submit to them was edited to have the domain name (oneword) as an anchor text .. is not thay funny? Not even in DMOZ you got it like that .. Google freaks them out I think.
so, BOTW editors will now begin accepting bribes for listings?
@seoataglance : what was your original title? anchor text keywords?
@ DarkMatter : LOL
Actually...I guess it is fair to say that "paying for placement" is the BOTW business model. Pay us...and we'll place your site in the directory. Of course, this will have no material effect of where your site will rank in Google or other search engines.
Perhaps this will create a new working relationship with ODP and make BOTW fairly attribute all of the ODP listings currently in their directory ( and in breach of the social contract ). Robjones, care to comment? You seemed to be wicked pissed about this before they cut you a check :)
@lorenbaker it was the domain name but two words, so assuming the domain was www.bluewidget.com my anchor was Blue Widget (it is also my title), but they have edited it to Bluewidget. I contacted them complaining and explained that this is not even good for the visitors, then they changed it to Blue Widget. But they did it later twice .. now I know why this is happening to me ... it looks they brought in the strictest DMOZ editors .. I got bored of contacting them every time to edit my listing, even Google recommends to add useful anchor text not meaningless words.
Evidently, you don't know much about BOTW. The only thing that paying guarantees is a review of your site within three business days. We reject paid reviews frequently. We MOST definitely are not a "pay for placement" service. Do your homework.
By policy we don't have "ODP listings" in the BOTW directory. There are definitely instances when an over zealous editor has copied descriptions from DMOZ, and any editor doing such is quickly terminated. We respect the intellectual property rights of other organizations, and any editor working with BOTW knows there is a zero tolerance policy for "copy+paste" editing.
We have a category feedback link at the bottom of every category in thh directory. Should you ever see something that you feel is in violation of any social contract, please notify us immediately.
The artical referenced pretty much says it all. Can't begin to say how excited I am to have an opportunity to work with this assorted lot of loonies again... lol... I've missed these guys.
We're happy to be here, and couldn't ask for a better group to work with or for. The positive attitude and can-do spirit here is just downright infectious. Many thanks to the Best of the Web boys for taking on this rapidly growing Nerd Herd.
Regards ~ Rob
PS: It ain't the checks... it's the T-shirts. :-)
So BOTW hiring editors from the world's most pathetic directory is a good thing?
Glad they don't have publicly traded stock because it would be about $0.01 or less tomorrow.
Thanks Bill - Your concern for our future is kind but unecessary. :-) Whether you like or dislike their operation, Dmoz has had 80 thousand plus editors thru over the last decade. Every team has standouts, so we hired a tiny fraction, the cream of the crop who had expertise in areas we wished to target.
They've adapted well to a very different business model, and are doing an outstanding job building and improving Botw to offer a better resource. BOTW has recently launched new products and has new projects underway... all is well.
Resulting growth has been explosive, well in excess of what you'll see elsewhere, not that numbers tell the whole story. "The Best" is about quality... and we're experiencing the best of both worlds. We're pleased with their work, and hope you will be too.