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Old 06-25-2009, 12:50 AM
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Originally Posted by lisa View Post
No, I don't get much traffic at all. Maybe a few hits per day. But my sole purpose for listing with Yahoo was because I knew Google valued the link. My DMOZ listing definitely helped me back in 2002 when I first launched the site because as soon as I got listed in DMOZ, my Google traffic came immediately (literally... the next day traffic came). But that was in 2002. You no longer need DMOZ to get Google traffic.
Thanks for the prompt response - that's what my take on the matter was initially. I think much of today's dmoz fever is accounted for by that old knowledge that being listed in dmos equals to being somewhere in google.
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