...ry of websites and pages, which isstaffed by volunteers. Every website and page that is added tothe directory has to be manually reviewed before it is included.Since its index is manually constructed and edited,categorization and relevancy is superior to any other index ofits kind and equally as unique, is the fact that this data isopen and free to the public for replication. As of July 2005,ODP had about 4.6 million listings organized into over 580,000categories derived from...

... the contributions of some 69,000editors. How is this free data been used to make Dmoz Clone?There are a lot of ODP scripts to make clone of the ODP. Thesescripts enables you to add live data of the Open DirectoryProject at dmoz.org to your own website using a very easy tocustomize template based system. Users can browse and searchcategories of websites. These scripts that grabs live contentsof the Open Directory dynamically and formats them to make yourown version of the Open Directory. These are small scripts havefew files to just uploaded on your server and you can getThousands of Dmoz directory pages on your site in your owntemplates design. These scripts just get live data from Dmoz.organd it has no original new contents. Does Dmoz Clone bringtraffic?Webmaster do not like Dmoz clone websites as they have notoriginal content rather have duplicate contents and no body willlike to link a site or vote a site which has duplicate contents.Most people will not even browse your directory. Most peoplewill just browse 2-10 pages of your directory, they will justleave and never come back. Why Search Engines are against DmozClone?There are various reasons which are explained as: * There is noOriginal Content which is required to make a Quality Site. *Duplicate contents as all scripts extract live data from Dmozand create thousands of similar pages on the web. * The Dmozdirectory has more than 580,000 categories If thousands of sitewill grab the live contents from Dmoz it will results intocreation of millions of similar pages which is making web ajunkyard of similar pages with nothing new. * The Dmoz clonesites has thousands of pages created on fly with no extrahardwork and lot of spammer are using it for advertising orGoogle adsense program * The lot of webmaster has just created asection of Dmoz to get inbound links from thousands of pages toincrease link popularity and search engine ranking * Text linkadvertiser also created Dmoz clone to sell links on thousands ofpages to increase artificially link popularity of text link adsbuyers. Which kind of Dmoz clone Search Engine's will LikeSearch engines are concerned with presenting quality results tothere users If you can modify and enhance the data retrievedfrom Dmoz and present in unique format it will definitely bepreferred by Search Engines, Webmaster and Web Surfers. Googlehas got its own directory for which it has got data from Dmozbut enhanced by Google technology i.e ranking of sites on eachdirectory page by Page Rank.Using ODP Clone Scripts just to make simple odp clone will getyour site banned from search engines due to duplicate contents.Therefore it is advised not to use this virtually useless scripton important sites or sites that rank well on search engines.Lot of ODP Clone Scripts makers sites were banned, because toomany websites with duplicate content ( as they all have Dmozclone) were linked to them. These scripts owner require theresite URL to be linked at the footer as "Powered by ..." Whichresults into link farming or inbound links from similar pages. Therefore if you want your site or directory to be safe and runfor longer times then have original and unique contents in itwhich will not only make it rank but also get good traffic onyour site and increase its popularity. software development companyIndia