rombest wrote:I am a DMOZ editor and I want help the quality dating sites.
You are very lucky. I am suggesting my dating site to Italian part of the directory and proposed myself as editor with no success in both situations.
You may say my site is not good to be suggested into the directory.
I am sure Italians DMOZ editors created a lobby and new dating sites don't are accepted anymore, because someone is using that section of the directory to promote and positioning their "fake" sites affiliated with other ones and make money with advertising.
Somebody tried to report this to DMOZ management, but without success.
I know what I am talking about.
Just open this page:
http://www.dmoz.org/World/Italiano/Soci
/Contatti/
You will find:
4 Single (link goes to easyflirt.it, which is Italian version of the commercial dating site easyflirt.com)
Annunci-Personali (link goes to annunci-personali.info an absolutely "fake" site full of keywords that send visitors to some commercial sites as bondage.com adultfriendfinder.com lesbianpersonals.com outpersonals.com passion.com Obviously "Annunci Personali" are the main Italian keywords in Italy for people that search dating sites)
Annunci-annunci.org (link goes to annunci-annunci.org, a fake site to catch visitors that are searching for "Annunci" (it means "listings", "ads"). You can immediately see and understand the site is full of keywords just for extreme SEO and if you enter "Annunci Personali" (personals, personal ads, dating) you can see a few fake listings into a page completely full of keywords and other commercial sites advertising)
Well, this happens also in parent categories.
To finish, some sites listed in that Italian section of DMOZ have just a few members (about 100/500) and are by payment. My site has 15.000 real members, a video chat, a video messenger and is totally for free, so I would like to ask to editors why they suggest to DMOZ users those sites and think my site it's a free resource that is not worth to be suggested to directory users... Where's the quality in lot of already listed sites?
I sent some detailed reports to editors, but I have been ignored.
Excuse me for being offtopic.
Last edited by orange_slice (2011-05-02 08:20:57)