Value of DMOZ

I have had trouble ever getting 2 sites listed in DMOZ. I was told that the value of DMOZ is not what it used to be so I shouldn't worry. Is this true? If not is there anything I can do anyway?

 

Yah, you can stop wasting your time on getting 1 single backlink.
That is of course if you don't mind to wait for inclusion forever.


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I think its more then one backlink as other sites use that directory.

 

forgot dmoz after you was submit your site on it

 

A link from DMOZ is just a link. Its as valuable as any other link from any other page with similar PR (assuming all other things being equal). there are plenty of other ways to get links...

 

That is so 2002.

Google has long discounted any links from DMOZ clones, and DMOZ clones themselves have long croaked.

 

Yeah, I've wondered about that. Suppose you have 1,000 links from clones. Then you probably get little benefit. But what if you get 5,000 back links? Eventually it seems there must be some benefit unless G. has completely discounted all clone links. Is that for a fact true?

 

No one knows for sure. Its all speculation.

 

Where have you been for the past 4 years?



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Google has been able to pick out duplicate content from its SERPs for at least a decade. That includes duplicate link pages. It's a safe bet that they have a safeguard against the DMOZ listed sites flooding the SERPs - that would heavily bias the SERPs for very old sites, and hijacked/lapsed domain names, and a very uneven distribution of new relevant sites across topics, with most topics being completely neglected since 1995. It would be a priority for Google to eliminate this undesirable distortion, not to mention, easy as child's play.