DMOZ has been broken for the last three weeks. They uploaded an old dataset so the public could still search. But all editor functions and site submissions have been offline. In other words there is currently no chance in getting a new link from DMOZ.
What is a link monkey supposed to do? There are some alternative resources that will give you a good link in exchange for a bit of volunteering. Wikipedia.org is a popular alternative. Best of The Web Blog Directory is another good one. Let’s not forget about regular link building through press releases, link exchange requests and article submissions.
Hopefully DMOZ gets back online soon, but I doubt it will be back for at least another week.
Wikipedia is NOT a directory or a link farm. Commercial link are almost always considered spam and are deleted immediately. Please do not suggest to others that if you volunteer a bit at Wikipedia that it is acceptable to add your own links to the site.
Word is that the hard drive got “re-imaged” by someone who ought not to have done that. And then, so it seems, nobody actually had a recent complete “disk image” to use to restore what got ruined. They’re now going through and doing what we poor saps do when our HD dies and we never made a backup — reinstalling stuff from scratch, then going through and setting preferences, tweaking, etc. Of course, if nobody remembers the exact settings that were being used… it becomes trial and error and a lot of frustration all around.
hi mike,
i think you misunderstood my intentions and i definitely don’t want others to misunderstand. i feel wikipedia is a good resource of information for people. it may not be perfect but it tries its best.
i was not advocating people to just go and randomly add “buy widgets” links on wiki pages. Rather I was hoping people would build out pages of information about their industry and IF and only IF their site has good reference material then as per wiki rules to link out to their site.
i think if you volunteer on a site to make it better it just doens’t make sense to spam it. it is better to figure out a win win situation for everyone
Hey Greg….
Any word on when DMOZ might be back up yet?
~Li
no word on when dmoz will be back up. if i had to guess it will not be up for another week or two