I find that a 20% nofollow rate is good also. You can also try linking in those blog posts to authority sites, such as wikipedia and other .edu sites so that you are not the only page being linked to. It also helps to provide valueable sources that way to the readers.

If you go to the directory itself and navigate to a category, then click submit on the right it gives you an option for a free submission. I had the same issue myself until I realized that.

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thanks! I'll give that a try! we do have several blogs!

Well, I'm thankful that I submitted my main website about 10 years ago or so when it was a lot cheaper! And that has remained in there.

I was considering submitting another site, but the other site is not a money-maker at this point, and is more of a personal hobby to some degree, so not worth the fee. If it was $69 like before, I may have considered, and definitely it was still PR6.

Wondering when and why it went to PR4.

I noticed that BOTW.org has gone from a historic PR6 to a PR4 currently.

They also have gone up significantly in price for $69 or so to $149 annually or $299 one-time fee.

This is quite high and with PR4 now, I'm not sure if it's really worth submitting to for this price.

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There are also scripts you can purchase for very little cost and have them install it for you on your server and set up a cron job to have your sitemap run automatically each week and ping the search engines to find your sitemap.

One such service is at xml-sitemaps.com - they can install it for you and set up the cron job as well.

Just make sure you are on a good server that can handle the script if your website is large.

We have had a quality website for 12 years. We have good rankings and good PR.

But for some reason, I have never been able to get listed on Dmoz.org - it's like they're not even reviewing it. It's not like I got a rejection letter or anything, just a no response and we just can't seem to get listed there. It's almost like the editors for our category are just not responsive or just not around. Or maybe they're a competitor and don't want us listed?

Questions:

1. How important is it for an established site to get listed? I imagine that dmoz being an authority site, it would still be very helpful for rankings.

2. There are dmoz "submission services" - where they claim to list your site the proper way. They don't guarantee their service, since they obviously can't, and you have to pay either way. Does anyone recommend these services and anyone know of a particular one that is up & up?

Any help on getting listed would be appreciated!

In the beginning of SEO days, it was going around that .com is the best for SEO and that .net is not as good. Is there any truth to this, and what about .org or .edu?

I always hear that .edu sites have high PR.

Is there any rhyme or reason to this, or all they all equal?

Thank you,

Afshin

Christian-Way.com

If you go to the directory itself and navigate to a category, then click submit on the right it gives you an option for a free submission. I had the same issue myself until I realized that.

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I noticed that BOTW.org has gone from a historic PR6 to a PR4 currently.

They also have gone up significantly in price for $69 or so to $149 annually or $299 one-time fee.

This is quite high and with PR4 now, I'm not sure if it's really worth submitting to for this price.

Agree / Disagree?

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