Effectiveness of DMOZ?

Does DMOZ offer even enough traffic to be considered a source of traffic? I mean the DMOZ seems relatively small even tho its one of the largest directories, it seems like nothing compared to Google, Yahoo and MSN.

 

No, DMOZ has its uses but it's not for you, if you have to ask it's best you don't bother submitting there.

Starting this thread takes more time than making a submission so you've clearly made up your mind about this question already.

 

It's well worth submitting your site to DMOZ. Yes direct traffic from DMOZ is very low but the fact you have a link from one of the most, if not most respected directories on the internet is a MAJOR plus to your site.

What's the harm in trying anyway???

 

Directories, including DMOZ will not bring you direct traffic, but it will give you backlinks, and thus give you the possibility of ranking better in google.

 

Yes, I am getting little traffic, but some of those people are converting into clients.

 

Well, havent get approved in dmoz yet - almost been 8 months now...

But that is a very trusted backlink, highly respected by the serps...

There have been many instances, wherein google has extracted the meta title from the dmoz listing and not the actually one on the site

 

"SERP" = "search engine results page

A "serp" doesn't respect anything. It's just a list.

Which doesn't mean that Google or any other SE gives greater weight to DMOZ. Note also that webmasters can and should be using the NOODP tag to prevent this.

 

dmoz is providing directory links to most of the major search engines . when you become inside the dmoz , you will be inside major search engine directories and i think getting one link from dmoz is one of the criteria of serp

 

So is every other directory and every other website that hasn't been banned.

What exactly does "one of the criteria of serp" mean? And please see the definition of "serp" above.

 

A lot of my sites is not listed in DMOZ but you can find them in Search Engines for its keywords. How did it happen ? Could it be Magic ?

 

If I waited for DMOZ to list each of my website they would LAST in serp instead of page one!

 

DOMZ is only worthy for its backlinks and not for the direct it can generate for the links that are listed in there.

 

Having a DMOZ listing will help with Google page rank. I have found it also helps to achieve a quicker listing with Google.

My opinion, it's worth the time to write a good site description and submit it to the proper sub-category within DMOZ.

Then forget about it and do all the other work that you need to do to attract high quality links to your site.

ezgoing8

 

Having any other backlink will help with Google PageRank, too. That's what PageRank is.

No more than a signature link on a forum such as this one.

 

At the end of the day unless you make two sites with similar content on a niche with zero competition and get one back link from dmoz and one from another directory how will you know if its better or not Minstrel?

 

I’m on debunking duty
Matt Cutts
December 8, 2006

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The same guy that said v7n links aren't undetectable, which every knows there is no possible way for Google to detect them or not. Also remember as he always states, its his personal blog and not the views of Google.

 

If you want to believe that DMOZ links (or edu links or gov links) have some special power, that's fine with me. I'm just pointing out:

1. There's no evidence that DMOZ links do in fact give you anything special or unique; and
2. A Google insider has specifically told you that they don't.

If you choose to ignore the evidence and prefer to base your decisions and actions on superstition, knock yourself out...

 

It doesn't matter what Matt Cutt's has said, sure Google may not apply special benefits to DMOZ but a listing in DMOZ means listings in other DB's which is more beneficial than one link, thats why its better. For someone who seems to knock DMOZ at every chance and has done for a long time you don't have anything other than what Matt Cutt's says. What he says also doesnt relate one bit to the links you gain from a DMOZ listing.

 

I assume you are talking about other directories that use DMOZ feeds and/or the Google Directory here.

Hint: duplicate content filters. They are a lot better than they used to be.

And if you have any evidence at all that you think indicates a special benefit of DMOZ listings to any search engine, show me.