Web Directories

**russia5** · 04-14-2006, 08:52 PM

Hello, I have purchased a reciprocal link script. One of its functions, is a DMOZ import. The documentation says that it is a great way to get a lot of pages of content with great keywords. Is there a downside to downloading a directory like DMOZ. Might this not look like a link farm that everyone has cautioned against. Is this indeed, good content that will promote my site at Google and elsewhere?

**chrishirst** · 04-15-2006, 07:02 AM

actually you may find it has the opposite effect, many DMOZ clones have been removed from the index in recent months.

**Acdhosting** · 05-03-2006, 09:30 AM

You must consider that the data archieve you can download from DMOZ is more or less 700Mb (if i remember well) so you need a lot of disk space if you want to upload it to your site.

**JohnScott** · 05-12-2006, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

actually you may find it has the opposite effect, many DMOZ clones have been removed from the index in recent months.

Yup.