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There is only one thing on the list that is not completely obvious -- dmoz still matters. Is it possible? Sure, it's a valuable list of sites touched by a lot o
by thingie 16y ago
There is only one thing on the list that is not completely obvious -- dmoz still matters. Is it possible? Sure, it's a valuable list of sites touched by a lot of care and bureaucracy, but does anybody who wasn't online 10 years ago know about it?
- dmitri1981 16y agoI can't imagine Google pays much attention to this anymore. Many of the categories have near absent editors and it can take over 6 months to be added.
- carbocation 16y ago6 months? I've been waiting for 4 years in my category.
- richbradshaw 16y agoI've been waiting over 5 now! It's a joke! I even applied to be an editor for the category 3 years ago to try and speed it up...
- RtodaAV 16y agoI tried that also.
- zach 16y agoAt least you could submit. They had some sort of catastrophe four years ago when I tried to submit -- there was just some sort of "come back in a few months... yeah" blurb. I forgot all about it until I saw this, so I guess I'll check back sometime in 2013.
- terrellm 16y agoDMOZ does matter, as do many of the old directories that are hand curated (Yahoo Dir, Business.com, Best of the Web, and hundreds of small directories). These directories are valued by the search engines because all listings are not automatically approved, so there is a certain quality aspect to the listings. While the directories don't send very much traffic, they do pass trust to the sites they are linking to. It can be tough to get a DMOZ listing, particularly if the category you are applying to doesn't currently have an editor. However, it's worth it if you can get accepted.