DmozSucks.org

This is the first post in this Blog, and it will also serve as an introduction to the new website DmozSucks.org.DmozSucks.org is created after seeing the need for a website dedicated to deal with Dmoz.org and all aspect of this web directory. There are a lot of horror stories online about being included or not included in this directory. There are a lot of people who would love to be included and who submitted their websites and waited for almost a year without any luck. On the other hand, there are documented cases of people who are already listed, and who begged, threatened and groveled to have their websites removed from the directory to no avail.This is a huge problem for serious webmasters and Internet professionals. Dmoz on its own does not normally generate any decent traffic to any of its listed websites. Its value webmasters is not in the directory itself, but to how the directory is perceived by more important entities, mainly Search Engines and on top of this list is Google. Google is responsible for the biggest chunk of most websites traffic resulting from search queries to their search engine. Google has been using Dmoz data in their own web directory and recently has been utilizing the Title and Descriptions of websites listed in Dmoz in its search results. This has a huge impact on webmasters and their websites. Now there seem to be no way for a webmaster to even control how search engines describe their websites. No matter what you do, a vengeful editor can bring your whole website to the ground by giving a negative or misleading title and description of a website that you spend your hard earned money creating and is a big part of your livelihood, and you can do nothing about it. Dmoz has a lot of negative affects, and some positive ones as well. Yet you will not feel the negative ones until it affects you personally. Being listed at Dmoz for years and keeping your business practices above line, legal and transparent does not guarantee that you will not be targeted by an evil editor, who might have a direct interest at devaluing your website or maybe just the need to feel powerful in affecting other websites and other people. I see how Editors at the resource-zone.com forums thrive on seeing the misery of webmasters. One editor actually loves to flaunt her power by using an image of a witch wearing crowns (motsa), which I suppose is what she is. There is more to come on this here and on the DmozSucks.org websites