Is the efforts worth to submit to DMOZ?

I've been tried this for a few times and 100% failed to be listed, just wonder, is this something that worth to do? Any idea? Please comments. Thanks

 

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yes-dmoz is highly respected directory listing in the eyes of Google and other search engines.

 

As fastreplies pointed out, why not just check the zillion other threads on this topic!

 

yes.. me too failed

1) perfect site..
check html and css validator.. and there is no error

2)100% relevent data

3)submit only once and forget..

 

You'll find PR 0 links on PR5 DMOZ pages.

I have top ranked huge sites with tons of visitors and great content that aren't in DMOZ, and never will be since I never submitted the sites.

The links are not valuable.

 

It takes 10 seconds, so if it's a serious site, why not?

 

It's 10 seconds I can use for something more useful, like clearing out a good, healthy burp. In fact it's more than 10 seconds. You have to call up DMOZ, hope they don't have wacky server problems, you have to find that category, you have to fill in the fields, squint to read that captcha... they pray that their servers don't crash and lose all that totally worthless, partial 2002 link archive data along with your submission, in the 9 years it will take for them to review your submission. All of this for NOTHING.

All my sites are very serious, non-spammy, sites. Google finds them very fast, and ranks them very high.

Have faith in Google.

 

wu... it's same case with me... I have the same problem to submit my site at DMOZ... hope somebody can help here....

 

Submit and forget, it can take from a few days to a few years for a review for a possible listing.

 

What submit in Dmoz important??

 

Hi have tried to submit my blog there thrice but I haven't succeeded yet.
Well will try one more time.

 

Multiple submissions may result in you being flagged as a spammer. You have suggested the site so now move on and promote it through other avenues.

 

very worth it.. to have backlink from dmoz is great, try go afford it.

 

Fine Mate. Thanks for that.
I'll just sit back and try to work on other ways of improving it.

 

Dmoz has 9 PR and its most respectable directory site for google (Specially) and other search engine
follow guidelines of dmoz and see you grt listed
Category is so much important

 

yes it is very hard to submit at dmoz, but it is worth it...

 

Its been PR8 for a long time.

Hard? What are you doing that makes it hard to submit? All you do is go to the best category; use the suggest URL; fill out the form and hit submit. What is hard about that? Its no diffeent to any other directory.

 

Don't worry about DMOZ, it's really not worth even the 2 minutes it takes to submit.

Once upon a time, back in the nineties, there were no search engines; if you wanted to find something, you used a directory. There were two options, in fact; DMOZ, or Altavista. Altavista was eminently game-able and its SERPs were a cesspool of unsavory websites, leading to its demise and the end of search engines using self-declared keywords in the META tags.

Back then, a website with a link page carefully tended by a specialist and motivated webmaster was a gem worth bookmarking. Google took note; it based its initial algorithm on link popularity. That gave rise to the Age of Linkage, where links were golden, when our mailboxes were brimming with link requests, paying link requests, everyone was mad for links to game the Google system. But as it grew more powerful, Google became able to devise ways to outsmart the fake linkage.

At some point Google became infinitely faster and more efficient in finding new, fresh, and relevent websites than even the most assiduous webmaster. Its computing power is now such that a website coming online today may be crawled within hours and listed in the SERPs as rapidly. Google likes established domains, but it is also very keen on displaying fresh content. Google and Google alone will decide if your website is worth floating with the cream of the SERPs. Using not your links, not your meta tags, but what you display your visitors. Google Images now can sort b&w pictures, by size, by predominant color, and is even able to sort faces. Just click on the 'options' button of Google Images. If Google can do this to images, I leave it to your imagination as to its ability to 'understand' text.

There is no logical reason for a search engine as powerful and sophisticated as Google to give much power to linkage anymore. Webmasters can't keep up with what's new on the web, Google cannot rely on them to dictate the value of websites. The Age of Linkage is over. I barely receive link requests anymore. Link pages are declining in popularity every day.

A moribund, sclerotic Directory like DMOZ, blue and out of breath as it hopelessly tries to catch up to 2002, is of no use to Google, which is 100% 2010, 100% today. Google isn't looking for lumps of decaying cobwebs in antiquated directories, and isn't taking advice from links anymore. Google knows best.

FORGET 2 SUBMIT

 

That was some really good information. But as you said, google no more is concerned about the links then why are people still paying for blogrolls and in-content links?