dannysullivanGoing through my giant box of stickers today and came across this classic. If you’re ancient on the web or in search, you know. #DMOZ
❄ SnowWrite ❄@dannysullivan I used to submit sites to dmoz.org -- wayyyy back! Like submit it to a actual human being in a certain category for clients :D
SEO grandpa (Michael Baggelin)@snowwrite @dannysullivan those days of building links until all failed and was scammed
Laura aka LoboTC@dannysullivan it's still alive in archive form https://dmoz-odp.org/
@dannysullivan and of course I just found this by you from 2017 🙃
DMOZ has officially closed after nearly 19 years of humans trying to organize the web
https://searchengineland.com/dmoz-has-officially-closed-271530
DMOZ has officially closed after nearly 19 years of humans trying to organize the web
https://searchengineland.com/dmoz-has-officially-closed-271530
SD
Nelson Minar@dannysullivan one of the odd lesser known stories of how to game Google...
Anil@dannysullivan been thinking about this a lot lately, including how one might bring it back.
D. Creemer
Furious@anildash @dannysullivan Some of the editors when it shut down were given a copy of the site, frontend and backend, and they still accept new volunteers and it's still online at https://curlie.org/
@dannysullivan I used to be an editor there! Google used to use the data from ODP quite extensively as well.
Jonah Stein@dannysullivan I found a 2008 SMX Advanced pin the other day.
infosolutionsgoa@dannysullivan When I started out in SEO, Dmoz was almost on it's last legs . In those days it was recommended by Google in their webmaster guidelines to submit to good web directories