seocog.blogspot.com — In my travels last night there was some rustle and bustle about DMOZ ( The Open Directory Project). I really cannot say what in the hell might be going on, but.....DMOZ also, no longer ranks for it's own name with it's original Domain ( http://www.dmoz.org/). They have created a sub-domain "search.dmoz.org" which ranks and redirects back to the ori
Sep 24, 2007 View in Crawl 4
g1smdSep 24, 2007
The search subdomain has always been there. Nothing new.You need to be aware that domain canonicalisation for the directory was implemented a few weeks ago, with (www.)newhoo.com/ and (www.)dmoz.com/ and dmoz.org/ all now having a site-wide 301 redirect to www.dmoz.org as described at <a class="user" href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3437548.htm">http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3437548.htm</a> and other places.It shouldn't take you very long to discover which URL the Root Page, and all the Top Level categories, are indexed under.I'll also guess that it won't take Google's indexing system much more than a month to realise what is going on and fix the problem.There is no ban. I have seen the same, or similar, effects hundreds of times before when canonicalisation has been implemented.There is some work still to complete, and then all will become clear. Give it a month to see what happens...