Open Directory Project (Open Directory Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/3022.html ">project, referred to as ODP"), Also known as DMOZ (abbreviated from Directory.Mozilla.org). Its web site is www.dmoz.org. is a multilingual Internet site Directory community, according to the fixed directory system Policy open editing, composed of volunteers to edit and maintain, by the AOL all.
Its predecessor, gnuhoo,1998, June 5, established www.Gnuhoo.com, founded by the computer program division of the California Sun Microsystems, Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel, as a turning point in the search engine's revolutionary transformation. It opens a new classification retrieval system. Inspired by volunteer-edited, maintained network classification guides Godirectory and Zeal (incorporated into the LookSmart database in August 2001), they are based on the most extensive collection of resources, the most convenient retrieval, the broadest use of ideas, the experimental introduction of Gnuhoo a fully open , web-sharing, network-shared classification search system. Surprisingly, www.Gnuhoo.com online 13 days later, June 18, has volunteered to edit 200 people, the database into 2000 categories, indexed 27,000 pages. In the meantime, because Gnuhoo and the free Software development organization GNU name is identical, in its protest renamed as Newhoo.
July 2, 1998, the volunteers increased to 400 people, index about 31,000 pages, directory expansion to 3900 categories, November 17, 1998 Netscape acquired Newhoo.com, formally named the ODP, and the site renamed Dmoz.org. At this point, the ODP has 4,500 volunteers edited, indexed about 100,000 pages.
October 5, 1999, the index of the page reached 1 million, April 2000 to 1.6 million, August 14, 2000 to 2 million, 2001 11 also 18th reached 3 million, June 2004 to 4.4 million, all the pages are divided into 590,000 categories, Volunteers edited more than 63,000 people. Gnuhoo was founded only in English, July 2003 has 67 languages, English web site accounted for 75%. Today, more than 20 search engines and classification guides, including Google, Netscape, Lycos, HotBot, Dogpile, Thunderstone, Linux, Mars powering, use the ODP database.
The latest data from April 2006 showed that the ODP currently contains 5,291,609 sites in more than 590,000 directories, and currently has 72,144 volunteer editors worldwide.
Submitting your website to an open network directory (http://www.dmoz.org) is an extremely important step in website promotion. This is because there are many very important search engines and online portals that use DMOZ search results as their own search results. As one of the largest web directories on the Internet, DMOZ is not like Google and other search engines to use automatic search program to index and edit the site, and its browse catalog of the editing work is done by manual. Therefore, when submitting your website to DMOZ, to ensure that the site is included, you should pay attention to the following matters:
1. Ensure that the site content submitted is original and not reproduced, mirror or copy
If your site content is just some affiliate links, or other site content cloning, then your submission is very likely to be DMOZ rejected. DMOZ is not included in those reprinted, mirror image or copy site. For the site included, once found that they are mirror image, copy or not original, DMOZ will also be removed. So if your site is really about affiliate products, you can add some information or additional information to your site. So DMOZ's editors will think your site offers at least some original content.
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