Comments on: DMOZgate – ShoeMoney, Extortion, and Disappearing Listings

By: james

james — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:14:45 +0000

So, the shoemoney site was banned in 2005, and the owner knew about it in 2005. That was long ago.

Any recent message about a removal must have been a shock to him. How can a site that wasn’t listed be threatened with removal?

Make no mistake; the root of the site has never been listed. A feed URL was listed for a few weeks but that was six months ago.

So, who would send a mail about removing something now? Unless the mail was never sent?

By: Shawn Collins

Shawn Collins — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:08:58 +0000

@James Dorans

I actually applied to be an editor back in 2000 after the frustrations of not being able to get my sites listed.

I think there are a couple problems there – editors that block competition, as well as those (and I was one of them when still an editor) who gradually edit less and less, due to the increasing amounts of junk submissions.

By: James Dorans

James Dorans — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:02:30 +0000

Wow no I am really not surprised DMOZ in my opinion is actually very easy to have corrupt editors. I submitted one of my sites to scottish gifts section of DMOZ and it was reject. Then I found out the editor her self owned a celtic,scottish,irish gift site. My side site is doing well so I really don’t care it never got on to DMOZ.

So I am saying; If you don’t think editors are easy to corrupt then I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

I have been on DMOZ and saw so many sites that are no longer even up.
So Google should dump them like an ugly hooker.

I think a lot of Black Hat SEO people are actually editors at DMOZ.

By: Mr Law of Attraction

Mr Law of Attraction — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:55:10 +0000

Unless Dmoz unlocks the gates , it will loose it’s value to webmasters. I don’t Need a listing in Dmoz to get a number one listing or all the traffic I need.

By: Jim Kukral - Marketing Ideas Online » Blog Archive » Google Should Come Out & Publicly Dump DMOZ

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:01:58 +0000

[...] we have extortion? It’s time for Google to step up and simply drop DMOZ from having any relevance. Simply stop [...]

By: BeachBum

BeachBum — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:43:35 +0000

Sounds like a movie script. I would guess that ShoeMoney will continue to survive without DMOZ.

When faced with a roadblock, choose another road.

BeachBum