Well this is just too much...
Ever since I've remember hearing on DMOZ abuse attempts, last one I can recall was the DNS
hijacking and there are a lot of other stories and assumptions but this is just too shameless…
The Centrality of
DMOZ is well known and noticeable in SE practice and
with Google essentially. I wonder what Dmoz editors would say about that:
Israeli first SEO contest is about to conclude and the disorder jumps,
Lots of ups n' downs in the serps for the term "latur motor" ( לתור מוטור )
in google.co.il – started with 0 results just 6 weeks ago and over 220,000 now…
(Israel's population is 6 million so it's a big theme here).
More on that: http://www.latur-motor.com/latur-motor.html

http://www.latur-motor.com/plog/
The bottom line is that one of the participants is cynically using his access to the DMOZ directory in order
to promote his private interests (see attached gif below) started with a link to his site at the bottom of
DMOZ homepage , and since a week ago – at ALL DMOZ.org.il pages… Yes, you read it right – a link from EVERY page at DMOZ.org.il
(that is the geeky creature at the bottom of the page).

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The rankings of this dude at the competition went from #28 to #1 – bit despairing
to hundreds of others… While approaching this guy he responded
that the company he works for hosts the Israeli version of the DMOZ project so
"I don't understand what's the problem, This is no big deal…"
... as if DMOZ is his private sandbox.

I'm still waiting to the DMOZ chief Israeli editor respond on that
("He'll get to that later"), but wanted to share the fiasco (going on for a week now…)

Again: Maybe it is just a third worlds problem but I would really love to hear what
Dmoz editors and other SEM/SEO related would say about that…
If you would like to t help a
member with a page that is dedicated to DONATE THE PRIZE TO REFUGE CHILDREN,
please PM me, Email me or just give us a two-week supporting link :
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Remark : our Buddy at d.co.il tells us that this guy changed his footer,
and now he declares that he's a dmoz - mirror, They asked us to remove this page...
We didn't so they made us add this...
Other links:

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