New Bitcoin ODP (Open Directory Project) Editor

[MineForeman.com]

Hi All,

I am glad to announce I have been made an editor for the Bitcoin category over at dmoz.org (also known as the ODP) you can read my full announcement HERE.  

View the actual category HERE

I am actually quite excited to get started and I hope to give the bitcoin category/community much more attention than it has ever had before from the ODP.  

I do need your input though (and your sites) so if you could read what I have written about what I want to achieve with the category and get back to me (via my contact details or here) it would be greatly appreciated.

My first order of business as I get familiar with the rules and policies is to fix the category structure at the moment it is;-

- Bitcoin
-- Mining

And I am thinking of something like;-

- Bitcoin
-- Alternitive Chains
-- Clients
-- Data
--- Market
--- Blockchain
-- Education
-- Exchanges
-- Games
--- Gambling
-- Mining
--- Hardware
--- Software
--- Pools
-- Merchants
-- News
-- Online Wallets
-- Payment Processors
-- Tools

But I want your input on this.  Thanks a lot for any efforts you make, I really hope we can make things better together.  

[slothbag]

Was thinking of something similar.

Why does that ODP not support downloading of only selected categories and incremental updates?  Would make it far more useful IMHO.

[SgtSpike]

That site looks awful.  It looks like a cybersquatting placeholder.  Are there any plans by the site owner to update the visuals?  How many people actually use ODP?

[mc_lovin]

That site looks awful.  It looks like a cybersquatting placeholder.  Are there any plans by the site owner to update the visuals?  How many people actually use ODP?

Yeah that's one of the worst looking sites out there.  Incredibly hard to use.

[BeeCee1]

I'd have the structure be like this:
# Alternative Monetary Systems
   # Crypto Currencies
      # Bitcoin
      # Litecoin
      # ...
   # Local Currency Systems

I wouldn't put 'market' under data either.

[ArticMine]

That site looks awful.  It looks like a cybersquatting placeholder.  Are there any plans by the site owner to update the visuals?  How many people actually use ODP?

The  number of people that use ODP is very few, but that is not the point. It is literally the best human edited directory out there and the major search engines trust it highly when ranking  a site.

[SgtSpike]

That site looks awful.  It looks like a cybersquatting placeholder.  Are there any plans by the site owner to update the visuals?  How many people actually use ODP?

The  number of people that use ODP is very few, but that is not the point. It is literally the best human edited directory out there and the major search engines trust it highly when ranking  a site.

Ah, I see... so a site being listed in that directory helps a search engine determine what sort of content it is based around then..?