DMOZ has a proud history. Currently, it's a messy situation. All the categories that I am familiar with are so badly kept up that it's useless for users.
My impression is that DMOZ only gets new submissions from seo types building links or newbies. What do you think?
It is my impression that DMOZ, despite it's proud history, has run thru it's useful life.
To keep this from becoming an abstract debate, please answer me this:
1. Have you used DMOZ to find anything in the last 30 days?
If the answer is that NOBODY is actually using it anymore to find anything (which is what I believe), then probably it's time to put DMOZ in mothballs and archive it.
2. Google use to weigh these links heavily. I suspect, given the rats nest that DMOZ has become, google counts these links the same way that it counts any spammy directory. In short, they could hardly count less.
I haven't used DMOZ ever, though I did try to submit my website some time ago. To be fair though, I've never actually used any directory (except in an attempt to build backlinks). I'd be willing to bet that most people simply use search.
I receive maybe 2 - 4 hits a month from DMOZ...and I'm amazed when I see it. As far as SEO, forget about it. Yes, submit to DMOZ and forget about it...chances are you won't get listed these days due to the lack of editing interest. And yes, to this day, Google uses DMOZ for it's directory results...why I can't begin to understand, and at times they even use DMOZ descriptions for their descriptions in search results (which is why I use the NOODP meta tag). But as far as ranking goes, being in DMOZ carries no weight...maybe it used to, but that was many years ago. There are "bigger fish to fry".
For SEO purposes, DMOZ is still one of the better directories to link from.
It's got a PR of 8, and it does get crawled on a regular basis, so a backlink to your site will get you indexed quickly enough.
It's got a fairly high rank from both Alexa and Quantcast, even though traffic has dropped steeply in the last 3 months.
That said, yeah, it's probably only being visited by SEO types and is useless as far as real internet searching goes. Fact of the matter is that I don't think anyone other than the academic world use directories anymore
Treat it as an authority directory. It becomes a problem when I see too many people see it beyond just that. It is a very recognized directory, there's no dispute and it will continue to be. Trying to get yourself in there is right, however if you end up stressing out about your site not in there...that's when you know you're overboard. There are a ton of directory with great weight like aviva, they should be looked at in the same token.
well, if it is still as effective as it was before or not, it is still worth to give it a shot. it will only take a few minutes to submit a site to it like many other directories.
Dmoz is a waste of time, you will find it very difficult to get in, if at all, no matter how much quality content you put on your site. I have tried over a period of 3 years with no success and from conversations on other forums, they all say pretty much the same thing, it's not worth the trouble !
It is frustrating in that most people really only want to be listed because of the SEO benefit, even though I don't know any people that actually use it. I don't even keep track of my status (or lack thereof) in dmoz. Just submit it and forget it. If you happen to get listed, celebrate. Don't over do it though, I had one of my sites later removed by an overzealous editor, never to be listed again.
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