Why Search Engines Purging ODP Clone Websites ?
What is Dmoz Directory (ODP)
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive
human-edited directory on the web. It is owned by "Time Warner"
and constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of
volunteer editors, and is truly unique in many ways. The Open
Directory, also known as DMOZ (the domain name of ODP), is a
large, categorized directory of websites and pages, which is
staffed by volunteers. Every website and page that is added to
the directory has to be manually reviewed before it is included.
Since its index is manually constructed and edited,
categorization and relevancy is superior to any other index of
its kind and equally as unique, is the fact that this data is
open and free to the public for replication. As of July 2005,
ODP had about 4.6 million listings organized into over 580,000
categories derived from the contributions of some 69,000
editors. How is this free data been used to make Dmoz Clone?
There are a lot of ODP scripts to make clone of the ODP. These
scripts enables you to add live data of the Open Directory
Project at dmoz.org to your own website using a very easy to
customize template based system. Users can browse and search
categories of websites. These scripts that grabs live contents
of the Open Directory dynamically and formats them to make your
own version of the Open Directory. These are small scripts have
few files to just uploaded on your server and you can get
Thousands of Dmoz directory pages on your site in your own
templates design. These scripts just get live data from Dmoz.org
and it has no original new contents. Does Dmoz Clone bring
traffic?
Webmaster do not like Dmoz clone websites as they have not
original content rather have duplicate contents and no body will
like to link a site or vote a site which has duplicate contents.
Most people will not even browse your directory. Most people
will just browse 2-10 pages of your directory, they will just
leave and never come back. Why Search Engines are against Dmoz
Clone?
There are various reasons which are explained as: * There is no
Original Content which is required to make a Quality Site. *
Duplicate contents as all scripts extract live data from Dmoz
and create thousands of similar pages on the web. * The Dmoz
directory has more than 580,000 categories If thousands of site
will grab the live contents from Dmoz it will results into
creation of millions of similar pages which is making web a
junkyard of similar pages with nothing new. * The Dmoz clone
sites has thousands of pages created on fly with no extra
hardwork and lot of spammer are using it for advertising or
Google adsense program * The lot of webmaster has just created a
section of Dmoz to get inbound links from thousands of pages to
increase link popularity and search engine ranking * Text link
advertiser also created Dmoz clone to sell links on thousands of
pages to increase artificially link popularity of text link ads
buyers. Which kind of Dmoz clone Search Engine's will Like
Search engines are concerned with presenting quality results to
there users If you can modify and enhance the data retrieved
from Dmoz and present in unique format it will definitely be
preferred by Search Engines, Webmaster and Web Surfers. Google
has got its own directory for which it has got data from Dmoz
but enhanced by Google technology i.e ranking of sites on each
directory page by Page Rank.
Using ODP Clone Scripts just to make simple odp clone will get
your site banned from search engines due to duplicate contents.
Therefore it is advised not to use this virtually useless script
on important sites or sites that rank well on search engines.
Lot of ODP Clone Scripts makers sites were banned, because too
many websites with duplicate content ( as they all have Dmoz
clone) were linked to them. These scripts owner require there
site URL to be linked at the footer as "Powered by ..." Which
results into link farming or inbound links from similar pages.
Therefore if you want your site or directory to be safe and run
for longer times then have original and unique contents in it
which will not only make it rank but also get good traffic on
your site and increase its popularity.
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