DMOZ help

[raph3988]

So yesterday I got a DMOZ editor account. I would like to know if Google indexes the editor profile pages on DMOZ:

http://www.dmoz.org/public/profile?editor=

here are some examples

http://www.dmoz.org/public/profile?editor=thehelper

http://www.dmoz.org/public/profile?editor=raph3988

http://www.dmoz.org/public/profile?editor=skasselea

I would like to know if it is worth while to build up this page so it will pass link juice. And can anyone tell me how frequently Google crawls for new editors (if that's possible?)

[Andropenis_Australia]

Hello,

I wouldn't bet on it, but there's no harm in trying

[riplash]

You can confirm this yourself.

First, do a Google search for site:http://www.dmoz.org/public/profile?editor=

You see the meta descriptions aren't indexed in the results? Instead, Google puts a default message, with a link to this page..  https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449 - check that out. Note the paragraph:

"While Google won't crawl or index the content of pages blocked by robots.txt, we may still index the URLs if we find them on other pages on the web. As a result, the URL of the page and, potentially, other publicly available information such as anchor text in links to the site, or the title from the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org), can appear in Google search results."

So whilst they may appear in Google's index (and indeed the OSE one) because of the links pointing to them, the content isn't crawled at all (by any spiders that obey robots.txt).

[GoodAtMarketing]

Oh yes he is correct, good call Neil, I had no idea that the robot.txt would be publicly accessible. I actually never seen a site have their robot txt visible.. I guess it's the "open source"...

[raph3988]

Can anyone co firm this?

[riplash]

Take a look at their robots.txt - http://www.dmoz.org/robots.txt

They disallow the /public and /editors subfolders. The editor pages, whilst indexed by Google, aren't crawled.. so whilst the location of the pages themselves is indexed (because of links to those pages), the contents of the pages aren't indexed. This means any links on the page too, obviously..

For this reason, I don't agree with Reload Media. For me, there's no point expending any effort promoting the page for link equity benefit.

The fact they show good authority on OSE is something of an anomoly. They can accrue authority (and indeed Google PR) from their inbound links, however, they are a bit of a dead end, due to the fact that no actual content is indexed.

[IainReloadMedia]

Hi Raphael,

Well done on getting an editor account. Remember with great power comes great responsibility 

Yes they do get indexed. The way to check this is to Google the url in "" i.e. "http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.dmoz.org%2Fpublic%2Fprofile%3Feditor%3Dthehelper"

Some of those editor pages have great Authority. http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.dmoz.org%2Fpublic%2Fprofile%3Feditor%3Dthehelper

If it's related to your niche, then would be worth pursuing.

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media

[GoodAtMarketing]

Using http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization, you can check individual pages, in the keyword field I put the helper and in the URL I put http://www.dmoz.org/public/profile?editor=thehelper... So it seems like it does get indexed : )