[marissa]

My problem with the use of dmoz titles is this: one editor at dmoz thinks their choice of title is best... versus the very significant number of citations other websites have given us so we can earn our place at #4 (out of 78 million).

Wouldn't it be better to make the title the most common anchor text used if it is to be taken out of the hands of the website author?!?!

Our site on homelessness has fared well recently, now number four on Google for [homeless] and number one or two on yahoo and well who really cares what msn does... but damn Google for using our dmoz title 'Homeless - Australia' as that really puts off a lot of international traffic. The site is very international, but due to the dmoz crap we are missing out.

I am happy we have several listings in dmoz but it's certainly got it's downside.
Marrissa

[willyoumind]

To be honest, the Google has acting very stricted to those sites that submitted to the DMOZ.

However, as long as your homelessness site have some decent and stable traffic, then it would be fine. By the way, don't even forget that the words of mouth is the important promotion tools as well!