DMOZ why does it still get so much weight

January 25, 2010 |

Author Mark

It amazes me that Google still gives DMOZ so much weight, it’s free and incredibly difficult to get a website listed on it. Of course DMOZ editor’s responses more often than not is the reason you are not listed is because it did not meet the criteria.

If DMOZ is overrun then the simple solution is to start charging for listings like many other directories.

I’m no rocket scientist, but the questions they ask are not exactly tough. In the good old days, sure you could get sites listed on DMOZ, but either they are over whelmed, badly managed or ran by people who only have self interest.

Here are the questions DMOZ ask to get listed:

Site URL:
Title of Site:
Site Description:

I have tried to add loads of different sites over the years and like many other site owners have given up even trying. I am not interested in listing in DMOZ as a site as it does not generate much traffic. The problem is just how much weight Google gives to this directory, for this reason its the only good reason to get listed.

When I add a site I will look for where my competitor is and then request inclusion there because I know its the correct location, but still…. after 5 years still many of these sites are not included.

So Google should either offer to buy DMOZ and do a better job or drop it from its algorithm, because in my opinion if you don’t know a editor who will accept payment to get your sites listed then you’re not getting in.

Google does not need a directory because it’s search capability is so amazing why bother trying to run a primitive directory like DMOZ. It’s like comparing an Iphone today to an old red telephone box!!!

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Euroka

DMOZ is an old-fashioned, hierarchical and closed source !
The reason why it is so difficult to get listed is because they have lost the manpower to deal with the submissions. I was an editor for years and have tried to understand the editing community there. Most of the editors wanted to do a lot of work but the red tape and endless discussions about where to put what and how and when killed the enthusiasm any editor may have had as a volunteer. ( yes… volunteers… they bully them in DMOZ )
Clearly the self-regulating community was and is not able to self-regulate.
DMOZ is dead, the directory is a mogul and doomed to fail soon.
The original idea was great but inflexible to adjust itself as it was set up to do.

Peter
Euroka

DMOZ is an old-fashioned, hierarchical and closed source !
The reason why it is so difficult to get listed is because they have lost the manpower to deal with the submissions. I was an editor for years and have tried to understand the editing community there. Most of the editors wanted to do a lot of work but the red tape and endless discussions about where to put what and how and when killed the enthusiasm any editor may have had as a volunteer. ( yes… volunteers… they bully them in DMOZ )
Clearly the self-regulating community was and is not able to self-regulate.
DMOZ is dead, the directory is a mogul and doomed to fail soon.
The original idea was great but inflexible to adjust itself as it was set up to do.

Peter