If there is one directory worth getting listed in these days, it is DMOZ. Other than this, directories have so very little value now that in most cases it’s hardly worth bothering with.

The issue with DMOZ though is that is hasn’t progresses, it hasn’t moved on, it hasn’t adapted to latest web trends and web 2.0 standards and still looks like a complete piece of $h1t that it did 11 years ago!!

With all the value that DMOZ has, I feel it’s pretty shocking that no-one has bothered to update the site, it’s stats could be increasing and it could be an amazing directory with the data it contains but as things go, their traffic is falling and will continue to do so until eventually it will be just a complete waste of space on the internet.

Over the past three years, I have attempted to list numerous websites in DMOZ, to this day, not one of them are listed in the directory, I’m not even convinced that any of the editors even work on it anymore, it seems you have to become an editor yourself to get anywhere and even then it has to be some tiny obscure category that you have no interest in anyway.

11th birthday and I can’t see that many will be celebrating it! Heh

Everyone now knows that Dmoz is history. They don’t update thier listings. Half of the links that are on their site is non-working. I just placed a bid at godaddy’s auction on a domain name that is listed in dmoz.

Everyone also knows that if you attempt to contact the staff at dmoz using the link provided at the website – ( dmozteam@aol.com ) it comes back invalid. It has been invalid for some time now.

Regardless where you look and read on the internet, You hear that “DMOZ” either “sucks” or “Dead” which appears to be the truth. This leads me to believe that it was true about them shutting down several months back.

I can tell you from my own personal experience that at one time – DMOZ was great! (Back in early 2000) however things have changed now. Since then, I have attempted to list 22 sites with them. All original content, Original programming – Some sites have been featured on National News (NBC, CBS and FOX) however, Dmoz doesn’t seem to value sites which help people or provide real content to anyone anymore. (The sites are all non-profit)

The person editors of these are ” lavendergreen ” and ” melodyvargas ” neither of them will answer my email, nor email from news sites like CNN. They continue to ignore adding new content to the directories that they are over and fail to review the links that are listed in their directory.

DMOZ is Sad!

…at other times, a directory-based approach such as the one DMOZ offers may provide the better path to the desired information,”
seriously? how many people (excluding, obviously, webmasters and the type of folk who read webpronews and tech sites) have heard of DMOZ these days? I mean the (for want of a better word) “man/woman in the street” – who certainly knows what google is, and yahoo, and of course facebook but… DMOZ?

I started submitting some sites over three years ago. These are quality, PR3 sites and higher, and despite numerous attempts, none are in the directory.
From a user site, how could I respect a directory that I know is not adding good, time tested sites? It’s more of a lottery than a directory.

For me it’s a pathetic and arrogant bunch of idiots doing nothing useful for the Internet. If you submit your site, even after following every single rule, you’ll never get listed. I think DMOZ (also called the Open Directory Project) is full of corrupted editors serving their own and their friends interests only. Google should be ashamed, because they give so much weight to sites that are indexed in this directory. Why don’t we close it down ?

The Open Directory Project has been broken for many years. I was an editor for a while on there and their system for watching your work is idiotic.

When I tried to be honest about the sites I was told that it didn’t meet the standards. When I left those spam-keyword descriptions left by people that wanted to be included, I heard NOTHING from the overloards that be.

So right there I knew that true search was not their goal. All they wanted was DMOZ to come up to keep it in peoples’ minds. Even if it was rife with sales pitches and not actual descriptions of what you would find on the site.

ODP is as relevant now as Finger, Gopher and Text-Only Browsers.

It has overstayed its welcome by six years.

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for five years now, there has been absolutely no movement forward that I can see. No rock-solid aged sites submitted ever get listed of even responded to.
It has truly killed itself with non-responsive behavior.
too bad.

Why does WebProNews keep bringing up this subject?

That is the big question.
DMOZ… Who the heck nowadays cares about them.

You have a frozen day in hells chance of getting listed with them.
It’s always been that way.

Doesn’t matter how good the quality of your site.
Even when you properly categorize your site.
Your chances are like none to none…

DMOZ sucks….

I got a 0 PR site listed in DMOZ after only 2 1/2 months. I was also approved as an editor 3 weeks later. It took a few weeks for my site to become searchable due to some database error they were having.

It is searchable now, but I only show in a search for my company name. If someone searches for “computer repair” (which by the way is the only set of keywords I can find my site with) I show up about 42 pages from the top. I suppose this will increase eventually increase my PR a little more, but as far as people finding me in the directory I have little faith at all.

In the month that my site has been searchable, I have gotten two hits one of which I am certain was the editor who initially reviewed it. I would suppose if you have a niche site, you might get some traffic, otherwise, seems DMOZ is only good for increasing (hopefully) page rank.

I sell retail home decor. I started my business in 2003. By 2004, I finally got listed in DMOZ and business was not so bad, I had a PR-4. Then after a decision to add a couple of products (less than 15 items out of 700 that I offer) DMOZ removed me because they said my content was no longer ‘original’ or unique because of this ‘common’ product.

My whole site is ‘original’ and totally unique! There was no appeal process, no other human to determine the absurdity of logic used by some editor and my PR dropped to a 2. All right before Christmas shopping season in 2007! That’s 3-1/2 years in DMOZ ended by a jealous competitor that had become an editor in their spare time and thus given the power to eliminate their competition by getting them removed from DMOZ! Well, what comes around surely goes around.

What amazes me even more is the ‘importance’ Google places on a site being listed in DMOZ when determining its PR value. We should hold Google responsible for allowing DMOZ to grow to the point (in attitude) to believe they are GOD. They are not. If DMOZ was really good, they would be FAIR!

I used to be an editor in DMOZ in the early years. At that time, the mission was to get “experts” in their field to weed out the spammy/garbage sites and supply visitors with quality content in their search results.

Well, the mission would have worked except that we are human after all and not everyone who applied to be an editor had honorable intentions. I had to submit websites to the “Main Content Editor” who never approved a website that was in direct competition with his. After 6 months of this, I quit.

I don’t even think about DMOZ anymore.