Submitting Your Site To DMOZ
DMOZ, The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
Why is it essential to submit your site to Dmoz? Dmoz is known as the best expert directory. Yahoo and Google apparently like sites listed in Dmoz. Hence, getting listed at DMOZ can improve chances of getting listed at Google (and ranked higher) and getting listed on other major searches that are powered by the DMOZ directory including: Netscape Search, AOL Search, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and others.
Need I say more? Submit your site now, check back in 30 days and if your site is still not listed, I’d suggest you try submitting again but choose the relevant category carefully.
July 11th, 2007 at 12:34 am
It is not essential to be listed in DMOZ. This was true in 2002, but it is not true in 2007.
Google hasn’t refreshed its clone of DMOZ in two years. That’s a hint.
DMOZ links are not valuable. In fact, they might have no value at all.
There are plenty of sites that have been listed in DMOZ for over 2 years, and have no other link. Many of these sites have ZERO PR, yet are are listed on PR5-6 DMOZ pages, that have less than 50 links. Since these sites have no other link, you can measure the value of the DMOZ link directly. The DMOZ link is not enough to upgrade a website from PR0 to PR1. That’s a very weak link, an unnaturally weak link given the high PR of the page the link sits on.
DMOZ is viewed as so worthless by its owner, AOL, that no backups are felt to be necessary, and a 2-month outage/blackout is taken in stride.
And Google easily renognizes DMOZ clones, and does not count these viral links in PR calculations.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:41 am
SEO experts might think otherwise but paid advertising network do take into account whether blogs are listed in DMOZ. This might change in the future but to us paid posties and those keen to sell text links on our blog, this is not an option.