It's important as DMoz has a good Page and Domain Authority and this will surely boost your rankings.. If only we didn't have to wait for so long..
Okay cool. I thought there was another reason for it than that though. I read a long time ago that Dmoz directory is the first site Google uses/visit when it sends its spiders out on the Internet to index everything because Dmoz have the most amount of human moderators and Google likes sites that are Human Moderated. How true is that? This is what Dmoz says to you after a successful submission. It says there in plain black and white that those sites including Google use DMOZ data. So I guess that answers my question.
Not true at all. That has been on the DMOZ site when Google used to use the rdf dump from DMOZ to populate their own directory, which they closed down yrs ago. DMOZ has not got around to updating that page. Most of those other sites also mentioned no longer use the DMOZ rdf dump either now.
Oh interesting. So DMOZ is not anywhere near important today as it used to be then because Google stopped using it. The only thing its good for now is the rank they give your site. Or has than been stopped too?
A DMOZ link is just a good link to have; nothing more, nothing less. Getting A DMOZ link will not get a site to the first position in Google; and it is easy to rank a site without a DMOZ link. Its nothing magical; its just a good link to have. It only takes a minute or so to suggest a site that and editor may or may not get to eventually to review and may or may not list ... you may or may not get a good link for that minute of your time ... not worth sweating over.
If you can get a DMOZ link, by all means do so. I got one long ago, though. I'm told that they are pretty hard to get nowadays.
How Important is DMoz Directory Submission? The Open Directory Project, also called the ODP or DMOZ, is probably the single most important internet directory. Its listings are used by Google, and by many other search engines and directories large and small, all over the internet. If you want to achieve top rankings in the search engines, you simply must be included in the DMOZ Directory.
Care to show us where they use the listings? Or is that just BS that you pulled from where the sun never shines?
Dmoz listings are no more shown in Google. BTW, it's good to have one and will have some impact on DA of your site. I got DMOZ link around 2 years ago for one of my blog and one thing I noticed about DMOZ is that they take a lot of time to approve your site.
DMOZ categories are managed by volunteers. SEOs used to try and become category managers for a topic or location they had clients in, when it used to really matter to have a link from DMOZ. It's not so important anymore, so most categories don't have active volenteers managing them. So it can take forever to get added these days.