I dont now. It’s ridiculous, what does one have to do in order to get listed? Well, I’ve pretty much just given up on listing there.

Dmoz is of no use in today fast growing internet media.

I get my site in DMOZ directory and still get any traffic fro there. :p

DMOZ still earns respect..else we’ll not be here writing about it.

I Tried for years to get my website listed, but the moderator has no interest.
It’s very frustrating, but I managed a top 10 ranking for my major keyword, without the DMOZ ranking. But I think if they would add our site, we would even get a higher PR.

We have been trying (within recommended rules) to get listed for 8 years!! With no joy. Given up as DMOZ seems irrelevant now.

I completely agree with the progress of DMOZ. No longer updating and no longer accepting web site submission as far as I can tell.

Not sure what they want us to do; we have followed instructions to the letter to get numerous web sites listed.

My client base is all over the board, the type of client web sites we manage fall under a number of categories

Dmoz still gives a lot of weight to Your site, but how the editors decide: I do not know.

I think they are still important. But they still have technical issues – I still get proxy errors when submitting a new site. They should work on that.

I have never like Dmoz. I am kind of happy to see that it is loosing its shine. All my submissions have never receive a reply from these damn staff. Not even some courtesy to inform people on the submission result. They dont respect the public, and people will not respect them. Better to see they crash.

Poor DMOZ. They’ve been over-run by non-ethical editors (not all of them, but most of them) who like many have said simply “block out their competitors” by either not allowing their competition to be listed, or by blocking editors that may list their competitors.

It’s so bad, but nothing that’s biased ever lasts long with Google. DMOZ has been dead for sometime, and it’s declining traffic numbers are demonstrative of this. People stopped caring about a DMOZ listing.

The problem for DMOZ is that most of the editors thought they could just deny sites forever without the internet community at large eventually finding out about what was happening.

Well now, the cat’s out of the bag. The results are showing (declining traffic volume), and people are getting Top 10 listings on Google frequently without being listed in DMOZ (in fact there is a 98% chance that if you do things properly on site, and get enough inbound links, you can get a Top 10 listing for your keyword).

So that means DMOZ is starting to slowly lose its reason for existence in the first place. People use directories to find information in a different way than with Search Engines. But as search engines become more modern it is slowly eating away at directory usage at all.

I have Google Search in my car’s NAV system, even on my PS3 and My Wii. . .I’ve never had a directory search capability in any electronic device, and it’s pretty obvious as to why. The DMOZ search generally doesn’t work well anyway. I end up going to Google to search for what I need.

The reason why Google is so popular is because for the most part Google has remained neutral on the sites that they index, and the content of those sites. People know that they can rely on Google for a realistic result listing, that isn’t biased (well aside from “safesearch” which is designed to filter listings some may find offensive) for the most part.

Can the DMOZ say the same thing?? Nope.

With biased editors, and editors who have “cronny” attitudes (only let my friends in, or let my friends become editors), and less than 1% of all sites that are submitted being listed, DMOZ is on its way to a slow, and quiet death. Websites are what keep the internet alive. Even Google would be dead without anything to index! DMOZ without listing sites, and having the same old stale sites in its directory will only suffer more.

Google only supports DMOZ for now, until they create their own super directory, which is in the works from what I understand. The same way Google decided to stop working with FireFox after their current contract expires, when they decided to go forward with Chrome (their current contract together expires soon).

Without Google, DMOZ will die for sure, as it’s MAIN source of respect will disappear.

The only way AOL can breathe any life back into that beast, is to fire all the editors, and get some PAID editors from their own base of staff. That is how they will insure that listings are accurate, sites actually GET listed regardless of the editors personal opinion, and there will be no biased listings or listing rejections without explanation.

I have done over 300 clients websites (possibly more) since 2001, and I stopped submitting to the DMOZ altogether back in 2003 when I came across an article that suggested the editors were biased, and rejected competitor sites.

When I applied to be an editor (in a category that had nothing to do with SEO, or Website Design) for a category I was HIGHLY familiar with (Boy Scouts, something I VOLUNTEER FOR, and have NO INCOME from), and they declined me (even though the category had NO editors at the time), and didn’t explain why, I knew then that something was wrong.

Since 2003, whenever clients ask me about submitting to the DMOZ, I tell them it’s un-necessary. I explain that DMOZ gets less traffic each year, and that they can easily obtain a Top 10 listing on Google for their keywords on their own without a good amount of inbound links to their site.

I predict within the next 2-3 years, the DMOZ will die completely. If it doesn’t, it will completely be “gutted” from the inside out, and transformed into something new, and more robust that fits the needs better of today’s modern internet users.

When you lose your respect on the internet, you’ve already lost the battle.

The DMOZ turned 11, and no one showed up for the birthday party — some people even through eggs. I think that’s clear evidence that you’ve alienated the very community that created the possibility for you to become as popular as you were. Game over.

I too have been trying to list with DMOZ. I have given up!
Somethings are just not worth stressing about. They practice bad business which is something I would rather not be associated with.

Alysehia