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DMOZ review

A few words about dmoz can be found here. Also, and entire section is dedicated to dmoz on digitalpoint forums. I am not going to mention what Dmoz is, since I asume that all of you who read my review know this information.

My experience with Dmoz started 2 years ago. I had a site for which I was working 8h/day, every day, for 1 year straight. Because there was so much work involved and because the sites that were already listed in my targeted subcategory where “not so extra-ordinary”, really though I had a chance.

I have read, of course, “tutorials on submitting a site to DMOZ“. Worst crap ever. Anybody knows how to write a sentence about their site and most of the people know how to find the proper subcategory. I just wanted to make extra-sure that my site will be accepted, that is why I postponed my submission on and on.

Anyways, I woke up one good morning and submitted my site. I had a good feeling about it (I think alcohol was still in my blood).

After that, a month passed. Then another. And another.

After investigating, I found a forum which was haunted apparently by some dmoz editors. In case you don’t know, being a dmoz editor is the thing that makes the difference between an internet god, a master of all powers, a guru – the son of mother nature and a poor stupid lazy webmaster ass. The forum is dead now, but seemed to be effervescent 2 years ago, because at least 3 people shared their intelligent thoughts with me in my status check thread.

Dmoz is like a myth. I have submitted through the years at least 20 sites to this directory. None got approved.

Nowadays, as I click on any subcategory of dmoz, I can find a lot of junk. What I don’t understand is why are search engines like Google giving so much credit to Dmoz. I will not point finger in this review to any site that in my opinion doesn’t belong in dmoz. But what I will do is to point out that any former or actual dmoz editor had special interests when joining dmoz, and that is why certain sites got approved and others didn’t. Being a free directory combined with the huge amount of sites that where submitted made dmoz a nonsense in the end.

In the end, I will simply list some factors that I consider essential with my mark (on a scale from zero to ten):

PR: 10

Age: 10

Traffic: 6

Category Structure: 7

Listings quality: 5

Number of sites listed: 10

Accepts inner pages: yes (a big mistake).

Owner: - Maintained by crazy/lazy editors.

Time to get accepted: infinite

Good points: None except that it is free and has great PR.

Bad points: Everything but the good points.