Why is DMOZ important?

Like many I have submitted my website to DMOZ months ago and hope to see it listed before I draw my pension.

But does anyone have any experience of how much difference it makes being listed in DMOZ?

 

Well Dmoz is good but well seeing the time it takes nowdays to get listed in Dmoz, submit your site and just forget about it...

Google has billions of pages indexed and well dmoz does not cover cent percent of it

If you get accepted, feel lucky otherwise no need to panic

 

Maybe I should become a volunteer editor to help with their backlog

 

Well best of luck.... i know like a million people who were rejected

 

DMOZ isn't hugely important, though it can help. Firstly it's a trusted site, so a link from there theoretically helps your 'trust rank'
Secondly lots of smaller directories pull their data from DMOZ, so you'll pick up 100's of links from 1 DMOZ submission.
Read more on DMOZ here

 

Google (at least, maybe the others too) doesn't count the links from those dmoz clones anymore. I believe Matt (or maybe GG) said they were killing those.

 

That's right.

A link from any old topic related website is regularly better than a link from most DMOZ categories (some are very deep and barely register on the PR scale).

 

I don't think DMOZ is something that you absolutely must get listed in, but your website will benefit from being listed there.

 

As it would from a link on any similarly-ranked page.

Remember that most DMOZ categories have very low PR.

 

I submitted my website in DMOZ and it was listed in DMOZ in 2 days. After the approval backlinks to my website goes more than before. I think it will be good to submit in DMOZ.

 

your lucky

 

It's more like "Why WAS DMOZ important".. DMOZ isn't that so important anymore..

 

as long as google takes data from dmoz to google directory, I say it must be important

 

Doesn't mean the links have extra-value.

Doesn't mean Google will embarass itself with the ODP forever.

 

It doesn't even mean that Google gives any particular weight to the Google Directory which DMOZ feeds. In fact, over the past couple of years, Google has progressively buried their directory, which tells me that it's not something they take much pride in.

 

Well if you have only few backlinks then getting DMOZ will mean a lot but if you already have tons of backlinks you won't even notice DMOZ.

Considering how rarely Google updates its directory with DMOZ feeds I wouldn't be surprised if they simply stopped doing it.