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How Important is DMOZ in Your SEO Process?

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if DMOZ is still relevant in 2009? DMOZ is a legendary web directory and has a ton of history. But is it still a critical or what it ever a critical part of your overall SEO or link building strategy?

I don't often see discussions around DMOZ (Open Directory Project) these days. In the past, the SEO forums were more likely to have an active discussion around the value and tips for submitting to DMOZ. Nowadays, I don't see it too much.

So I decided to create a poll and hope to get some responses from you on how important DMOZ is to you, as an SEO. Here is the poll:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.



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posted rustybrick in Open Directory Project at July 3, 2009 8:24 AM Comments (10)

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are they still accepting sites?whats the use in accepting when they have decided they are no longer gonna accept any more sites...lol

 

I don't see DMOZ results in SERP as they use to be anymore...

 

now days the ppl don't submit their site to DMOZ.

 

While DMOZ use to be very powerful back in the day I don't believe the power exists today. Waste of your time trying to get listed in the directory.

 

DMOZ is a powerfull directory, but it takes a lot time for approval, so once submit in it and forget. It's waste of time to wait for it.

 

DMOZ is almost dead! We still submit but we completely forget about it, it isn't providing the incredible link juice it would years ago.

 

I still see - although rarely - Google SERPs that are still pulling from DMOZ. The last time was 3 months ago.

 

DMOZ is a total effin joke, they are so disorganized and disfunctional, I've been trying to get a long-established site, with over a million monthly visitors, listed on there for about five years now. DMOZ acknowledged at one point that, and I quote: "the Crash of '06 wiped out most of the pending suggestions" and told me to submit again, which I did, and then they still never posted the site. Read the whole blog here:

http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/showthread.php?s=240d9edc09c57c5f46b1578e737084c7&p=259827#post259827

So if there is this well-defined although ultra-discrete development process under way at DMOZ, having anybody have to wait for five years and still not get a meaningful answer about why a clearly significant site can not get listed is just total crap to me. This lack of transparency in operations for a site that is supposed to be like a super-vetted directory of the Internet, like a wiki-directory moderated by uber-literati, is a total joke. Humanity does not need this kind of failed construct with such a horrendously poor customer service capability and it should be utterly disregarded.

 

DMOZ is like the public service. No-one cares and they just do their own duties officiously.

If there is no active editor in the category you want then nothing will happen. Or the editor may be your competitor and there may be no-one checking what they do.

I would suggest becoming an editor and entering the site yourself.

DMOZ is no longer very important. But it you can get in then that is free credibility. Your site becomes classified as being about the same topic as other sites in that category, and you get some page rank also.

 

I have been waiting for about 3 months now to get into dmoz. I guess you just have to submit and forget about it. I haven't seen any sign of my site getting listed.

 

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