DMOZ doesn’t get the attention it deserves these days. People are going after Wikipedia and the front page of Digg instead. They might have better luck there, but paying people to Digg you gets expensive, and those over-protective nerds editing Wikipedia every second of the day won’t let your link slip past.

But at DMOZ, the editors are corrupt. In 2005 it might have just been one corrupt editor, but now, if anyone is still editing, they’re corrupt beyond relief.

It’s not a bad thing, just a change you have to make in your style

And that change involves greasing some palms (figuratively speaking.) And to help you out, here are the instructions to get it done.

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We used to cherish links from DMOZ like they were some holy grail. It must have been our desire for a high PR link from an authority site, or perhaps the exclusivity (meaning that it was poorly managed and therefore very hard to get your link included.)

It has gotten to the point where getting a DMOZ link is virtually impossible, and not just due to the lazy editors. DMOZ had some serious database errors or something like that, causing lots of data to be lost. You can’t submit and you can’t edit.

And best of all, it shows no signs of improvement! The “unavailable” page has been up for months now, and SEOmoz has given up. I decided to follow suit, I mean, spamming Wikipedia is the cool thing to do anyway

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