I have been a DMOZ editor since June of this year. While I have been there a short time I already edit in 2 categories and hold a “temporary” postition in another category which I hope to make permanent shortly.

If you came here looking for secrets about DMOZ them you came to the wrong place. I follow the rules 100% and would never share inside knowledge about the Open Directory. I enjoy editing too much than to go and risk being kicked out.

What I will tell you is that the way to climb the ladder once you are in is to hold the highest ethical editing standards. Ask questions to the senior editors and metas when you are unsure about something such as what sites are inappropriate, how to create new categories, and whatever else may be holding you back from contributing to the biggest human edited directory on the planet.

In addition to asking questions, it is a good idea to surf for high quality websites that will benefit the directory as a whole, and more importantly, the end-user of DMOZ looking for a website. As an editor you are not obligated to even look at user submitted links. While many editors do, it is usually more productive to find websites yourself and add them if they meet the standards.

After I get a good chunk of edits under my belt I am going to expand my editing categories and my knowledge as well.

Hi everyone. We have not been posting alot lately. There is much going on. We have been doing a large amount of wordpress custom themes. Especially since we have been marketing them at a sale price.

We are doing alot of bartering also. You would be surprised what we would take. Our favorites include items that make us money such as stocks in companies, real estate, and the like. No we are not bartering for high priced homes in Beverly Hills, but we do take properties in bad condition in questionable neighborhoods. The Web Design Taxi owner is an expert in the real estate field and it gives him his kicks. It also keeps him out of our hair!

Anywho… check the barter page if you want to see what we are currently after.

We have been spammed hundreds of times in the past few weeks on our blog comments. Because of this, not only do we bad the ip addresses, but now we are going to publish the spammers ip for all to see. We hope this will deter any would-be spammers. Check back regularly if you want to find some IP addresses to blacklist.

200.63.42.136  - This one hit us 32 times today alone.

Well, it has been hectic here. But pluggin away anyways. To revive the fresh posts here we would like to offer a sales tip. What many websites lack is a call to action. You have to provide a valid reason and something worthwhile to your visitors, then you have to point them to the path to contacting you and/or signing up or buying from you.

This is sales 101. Many existing websites lack a basic call to action. A short paragraph explaining how you are the best and a link to contact you or your contact information just below the pitch.

Without the call-to-action you are shooting blanks. You wrote a good amount of copy but forgot to mention that you are open for business. So in the spirit of being funny, contact us because we are the best web developers around!

This is the first post in the new unofficial script support category. I will be posting these unofficial script support blogs here and there. You can comment on the post to request assistance (knowledge) and we will do our best to help you out.

This post is about XZero Classifieds. The script is a classifieds php script from http://www.xzeroscripts.com

The reason for posting it here is because the script author has mysteriously vanished and not answering calls to verify customers on the forum. The forum is limited access hence the issue for new customers. This type of things occasionally happens when freelance developers come out with a commercial script. Maybe due to health issues or other personal matters they cannot tend to the product as much as they used to.

If you have any issues with the XZero Classifieds script such as install errors or anything feel free to comment below and we will answer as soon as we can.