Old School SEO in Mourning
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 5:15 am
Getting listed on DMOZ was the gateway to organic positioning, without any hassle. For some, the wait was months, even years. For other lucky ones, with a contact within the team of editors, appearing on DMOZ guaranteed that the rankings would skyrocket, and gave the site hierarchy and quality.
DMOZ is dead. For those doing “old school” SEO, it kuwait mobile database will be like playing poker with a deck without aces. It will undoubtedly be missed by many, but we had already learned to do without it, and other directories as well. It was like a collision of two trains head on: the mere existence of search engines, and other sites that aggregate links, conspires against Google’s concept of “quality”, based primarily on content and the quality of the user experience. When a site fails in that, there is no directory to help with the metrics.
Thus, over time, the details that once made it a site stripped of visual appeal, focusing only on the quality of the links it included, became neglected, an image of the poverty to which it was being inexorably relegated. Goodbye DMOZ, symbol of an era that will never return.1. A new friend gives you a YouTube mix of Chilean pop. You can relate. After a romantic disappointment, you go to live in the Atacama Desert. You build a house on the sand dunes. You reflect on loneliness, you wear a turban.
You experience a natural disaster: a sandstorm blows up your house. You are thrown 300 meters, the dust and stones leave you blind. You spend an indefinable amount of time in the hospital. You return to society without resources, they say you will never be able to adapt. You ask for a job at the port. You start working on a fishing boat in exchange for lodging. At night you sit on the bow and reflect on loneliness. A Japanese ship kills the entire crew and kidnaps you. You become one of them. An old captain confesses what it is: lobsters. Your mother has the best recipe for lobster thermidor.
DMOZ is dead. For those doing “old school” SEO, it kuwait mobile database will be like playing poker with a deck without aces. It will undoubtedly be missed by many, but we had already learned to do without it, and other directories as well. It was like a collision of two trains head on: the mere existence of search engines, and other sites that aggregate links, conspires against Google’s concept of “quality”, based primarily on content and the quality of the user experience. When a site fails in that, there is no directory to help with the metrics.
Thus, over time, the details that once made it a site stripped of visual appeal, focusing only on the quality of the links it included, became neglected, an image of the poverty to which it was being inexorably relegated. Goodbye DMOZ, symbol of an era that will never return.1. A new friend gives you a YouTube mix of Chilean pop. You can relate. After a romantic disappointment, you go to live in the Atacama Desert. You build a house on the sand dunes. You reflect on loneliness, you wear a turban.
You experience a natural disaster: a sandstorm blows up your house. You are thrown 300 meters, the dust and stones leave you blind. You spend an indefinable amount of time in the hospital. You return to society without resources, they say you will never be able to adapt. You ask for a job at the port. You start working on a fishing boat in exchange for lodging. At night you sit on the bow and reflect on loneliness. A Japanese ship kills the entire crew and kidnaps you. You become one of them. An old captain confesses what it is: lobsters. Your mother has the best recipe for lobster thermidor.