Why Search Engines Purging ODP Clone Websites
There are lot of websites which are fully or partially clone of
ODP (Open Directory Project).These websites or part section of
websites, which are using ODP script to reformat the data on
there site are useless and they have no original new contents.
It is learnt that search engine specially Google is purging or
banning such kind of sites. Why search engines are against Dmoz
clone sites? Is the data in them not worthwhile or are they been
misused by site owner's? We will try to find our reason, but
before that let us first understand all about Dmoz Directory
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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