DMOZ Editorship For Sale on Ebay

There are plenty of important directories on the web, but the most important is arguably the Open Directory Project: DMOZ.org.

I’ve decided to auction off one of my DMOZ editorships. The ebay listing is here. It reads:

1. What is this Ebay auction for?

SEOBlackHat.com is selling the Editorship for a Google-Page-Rank 5 Category page in DMOZ.org - The Open Directory.

2. What is The DMOZ?

DMOZ.org - The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

3. What do Search Engines like Google have to do with the DMOZ?

Google is not directly associated with the DMOZ. But the 3 major Search engines (MSN, Google, and Yahoo) all use the DMOZ to help Determine what search results they should return towards the top. If a site is in the Open Directory, it is considered more important than if it is not.

4. How Exactly Does Google use the Information in the DMOZ?.

Sites that are listed in the DMOZ are more likely to appear at the top of Google Search Results. In addition, Google often takes the description from the DMOZ instead of the Meta tag “description” for the write-up that appears with the search results.

5. Why don’t I just sign up or volunteer to be an editor?

Be my guest. According to their site:

“Signing up is easy: choose a topic you know something about and join. Editing categories is a snap. We have a comprehensive set of tools for adding, deleting, and updating links in seconds. For just a few minutes of your time you can help make the Web a better place, and be recognized as an expert on your chosen topic.”

 

But that’s all bullshit.

Even if you hold a doctoral degree in a topic and apply 10 times, odds are they will never even look at your application, much less approve it.

Why? Because the DMOZ is corrupt. They know they have power and they don’t want to relinquish it to people like you.

6. What do you mean “The DMOZ is corrupt?”

Editors change the URLs of the links to domains freequently to make sure they don’t rank well. One week it will be www.domain.com the next will be domain.com the next will have a “/” after it, sometimes they will even direct it to www.domain.com/index.html. Because both the age of a link and the exact link location are important to Google, changing this information will hurt the ranking of the listing.

7. What else can you do as an editor?

Most importantly, you decide which sites get in to the directory. When you are an editor of a category in the DMOZ you can edit the titles and descriptions to be as favorable or unfavorable as you like. You can give any listings in the category bland descriptions with no keywords or spruce it up for your listings or your friends listings. Right now, if you visit some of the categories, you can play the “spot the good listing game.” It’s easy to tell who’s an editor or friends with an editor.

8. What category is this editorship?

I’m sorry but you are bidding on a blind category with a Page Rank 5. If I mentioned which category it was for before receiving the money, the editorship might be revoked. Obviously it’s not mortgages, adult, or gambling or I wouldn’t be selling the editorship. However, it is a niche that has profitable keywords.

9. Can I make money as a DMOZ editor?

People understand that the DMOZ is corrupt and will often attempt to bribe you. When you are with a corporate client, you can easily charge $1,000 or more for a DMOZ listing. It is both that important and extremely difficult to get listed.

10. What’s the Best reason to buy this DMOZ editorship?

If you do SEO or Web Marketing for a living and can’t get your client into the DMOZ, you are a failure. If, however, you become an editor in the DMOZ, you will have access to the DMOZ message boards and will be able to network with all the other editors. When these editors are your friends, they’ll be happy put your clients sites in the directory. Don’t forget, it’s much easier to switch categories or take on additional categories once you are “on the inside.”

11. If a DMOZ editorship is so great, why are you selling it?

I own 3 category editorships with different logins. I’m only selling one of them.

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