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Is Dmoz dead or editors active?
May 9th, 2009
Posted in Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization | 3 Comments »
We all know Dmoz is the largest human edited directory in the web and the link juice from DMOZ produces good Google ranking. A large group of editors manages Dmoz and getting your site registered by the Open Directory (http://www.dmoz.org) is vitally important as far as search engine positioning is concerned.
In earlier 2005 I used to add sites in Dmoz and it gets listed within few weeks but not from 2006. In mid 2006 their Service was Unavailable, as most of the regular dmoz submitters should know. It was told that the editor server that had the problem and, was recovered only by the end of 2006.
From 2007 there had been huge delays and flaws in approving links. Many tried to have their sites listed following Dmoz guidelines. But they fail. These episodes made many webmasters to research Dmoz performance and many discussions, blog posts and forums has been raised claming Dmoz dead?
Here are few examines
(1) Most of the links are broken and do editors check old sites included in their categories and they maintain?
(2) Many site are listed with promotional words and this is against DMOZ guidelines. Any corruption?
Besides I have read a thread that states few dmoz editor’s sends mail for paid inclusion and charge $. Checkout the mail posted in the thread. Mail content is really funny, may be true or fake :)
Suppose if you get any such mails do not hesitate to post your query in Open Directory Public Abuse Report System. Lets make Dmoz as genuine as it was before and active 
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August 4th, 2009 at 3:56 am
That is what I was wondering also!
Tried so many times to get my sites added to DmoZ – no results…silence…dead silence. I have never received any paid addition offers though I have to admit I would consider paying to make sure my sites will be added to Dmoz directories).
and after all – is Dmoz THAT important? I receive good results without being added to its dir’s so maybe it is overrated? used to be good once but useless now? obsolete? =) RIP
Mike
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 am
Agreed, and to top it off the majority of the editors carry an elitist attitude that’s beyond belief. I’ve yet to see any of them post an acceptable excuse for the state of utter shambles the directory is in. What is really sad is that you can find posts dating back to 1999 asking questions about why sites aren’t being added and dead links being pruned… 10 years of marginal management. Astonishing that Google still associates themselves with it.
Here’s an interesting post if anyone is interested:
http://www.seome.com/about-seome/blog/13-blog/61-getting-listed-on-dmoz
Cheers
April 14th, 2010 at 10:43 am
I’m completely thrown by the good’ol boy system that is now dmoz. My hope is that they become obsolete in the near future.