Comments on: DMOZ Proxy Error Problems March, 2010

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:36:35 +0000

Thanks James – I don’t think you’re pushing your content, in this case it is super relevant and something I hadn’t heard before. I’m going to edit the original post and include a link to your article for others to see. I appreciate your comment!

By: James Svoboda

James Svoboda — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:29:27 +0000

Hi Nick, I hate to sound like I’m pushing my own content, but I have been looking out this week for DMOZ info to back up my post from February on DMOZ 2.0. The Proxy Error you encountered may be because of their 2.0 update.

http://www.webranking.com/blog/dmoz-the-open-directory-project

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:06:12 +0000

Thanks for the comment Jason! I think you’re right that it’s probably a back-end upgrade gone awry.

I totally agree on DMOZ, with the delay in getting things approved and lack of usefulness of the directory from a user perspective, it’s not a very worthwhile link building effort…but it is free, which is nice, and clients want to be there…

I was able to submit earlier last week as well, but couldn’t submit all day Friday and still cant today, so I thought I’d post and maybe start a discussion on DMOZ on a higher level while I’m at it

By: Jason Hagemann

Jason Hagemann — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:58:37 +0000

Weird, I submitted a site to DMOZ last week with no problems. It could just be a glitch… I would assume if DMOZ was on their way out they would just close down the whole submission service not allow you to “try” and submit a site. It very well could be them messing with their code or trying to upgrade their Directory scripts and it blew something up. I wouldn’t worry to much about it.

Granted DMOZ sucks anyways and takes way to long to approve anything anyways. Go build regular links and say F-it to DMOZ.