How good is a dmoz listing?

How beneficial do you think a dmoz listing for a domain / website actually is?

 

Yes,Its too good web directory.

 

it is a top rated directory so it is really good.

 

Highly beneficial dotmebroker. the problem is it really needs time

 

so if a site is listed in dmoz, there is a chance that i will be in the first result of searches?

 

100% guarantee you won't get in first 1,000



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dmoz has been a big deal in the past but I think that is changing.

Mainly because of their I don't give a shit attitude.

they will not acknowledge any submissions, so your never really sure if they got it or not. And if you wait a few months and then decide they did not receive it and submit it again, you will be bumped to the back of the line.
Why they cannot set up an automated "we got your submissions and we will get to it when were good and ready" email, i do not know. Every other directory has this technology but it seems that dmoz does not.

 

The reasons why one site is accepted and another waits and waits for acceptance is a mystery so its best just to forget about it. I know a number of sites that were never submitted to DMOZ but are still listed whereas other site owners get worked up since they've not been accepted after years of waiting.

 

It's no mystery, it's when an editor volunteers to work that area and chooses to use the suggestions pool as the resource they wish to use and winkles out the sites we want to list which comply with guidelines and needs of the category. We all work in our spare time and the directory functions on each editor making choices within the areas they have permission to edit.

 

From the outside looking it, it sure is mysterious! Look around at what is listed, FMA, sites with duplicate content, crap pages done in html2.0 and worse... sure, a handful of good sites tossed in, but *shrug* When someone submits a site they expect something less then a year for it to get looked at, and there is a pretty good chance that it wont get looked at or wont get accepted, to which there is no differnce on the outside. So with that, it sure as hell looks mysterious, and that's how the ODP wants it... it causes contriversy, it causes people to talk about it... and it's all this talk that has kept the ODP alive these last 5 years.

 

My site got listed at dmoz a couple of months ago. I have received very little direct traffic and there is no noticeable effect in the search engines either. I has happy when my site got listed, but I am somewhat disappointed that it hasn't had the postive effect I read that it would in numerous threads here and in other forums

 

Well I know whenever I look up Page Rank it asks whether or not it's yahoo or DMOZ listed so im assuming its a criteria for pagerank to an extent.

 

Dmoz is best for my site ranking?

 

Have also been listed but have seen very little traffic as a result of it.

 

5.8m in the quality index. Yahoo directory ($299) has a 5.2m ranking.

 

Dmoz has a good PR and is well established...

 

I would pay $1,000 for a dmoz-listing for a money site. dmoz - albeit free - is the one directory to get into.

 

they are very slow to update, but i think they have very good PR

 

Who asks if it's Yahoo/DMOZ listed? Google? Google is the only one who determines/assigns PageRank and I don't know of anywhere that Google asks if a URL is listed in a directory before it tells you their PR.

 

99% guarantee you won't get any effect

Backlink from DMOZ AS USELESS AS one single backlink can be



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