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Jeremy Shoemaker, of the popular Shoemoney blog, posted that the owners of Best of the Web Directory are in talks to buy Dmoz from AOL and that a "deal could be reached fairly soon."
Editor's Note: This is still currently a rumor but it's buzzworthy nonetheless because of Google's traditional hard-line stance on paid links comes into direct conflict with Google's heralding of the community-edited Dmoz directory. What will this mean for Google, for search marketers, for webmasters? Tell us what you think in the comments section.
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It is unknown whether a sale would change Google's use of Dmoz for its own directory or would prompt Google to reconsider how much weight it gives the sites linked within Dmoz. For those who don't know, Google is still relatively cozy with Dmoz in that it maintains a Google Directory that is a duplicate copy of the dmoz.org content. Dmoz also is still considered a great place for your site to be listed to gain premium Google link power that helps your PageRank.
Over the last year Google has made it clear they don't like the selling of links from anywhere, especially directories. Google has also made clear that it considers the selling of inclusion in a directory tantamount to selling links. Many directories have experienced a severe lowering of their PageRank that have effectively made links (and inclusion) less valuable to potential buyers.
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Jeremy Shoemaker, of the popular Shoemoney blog, posted that the owners of Best of the Web Directory are in talks to buy Dmoz from AOL and that a "deal could be reached fairly soon."
Editor's Note: This is still currently a rumor but it's buzzworthy nonetheless because of Google's traditional hard-line stance on paid links comes into direct conflict with Google's heralding of the community-edited Dmoz directory. What will this mean for Google, for search marketers, for webmasters? Tell us what you think in the comments section.
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It is unknown whether a sale would change Google's use of Dmoz for its own directory or would prompt Google to reconsider how much weight it gives the sites linked within Dmoz. For those who don't know, Google is still relatively cozy with Dmoz in that it maintains a Google Directory that is a duplicate copy of the dmoz.org content. Dmoz also is still considered a great place for your site to be listed to gain premium Google link power that helps your PageRank.
Over the last year Google has made it clear they don't like the selling of links from anywhere, especially directories. Google has also made clear that it considers the selling of inclusion in a directory tantamount to selling links. Many directories have experienced a severe lowering of their PageRank that have effectively made links (and inclusion) less valuable to potential buyers.
rest of article here:
here
