I LOVE THIS WEBSITE : Dmoz Sucks - The Closed Directory Project

It says all that is required to describe DMOZ.

I wonder why cant Google launch its own directory ?

Is it just a money making technique of Google to rely on outdated database of DMOZ and forcing users to rely on PPC techniques ?

DMOZ truly sucks and sucks more than anything in SEO world

OK so now I don't feel so bad about my site not being accepted yet. I've been waiting at least 6 months. After reading this thread, I'm not so disappointed. If this is the kind of operation it is, I need to "consider the source."

B. Worthington

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DMOZ is a one of the big web directory to submit a website.

DMOZ is a Joke. I submitted my websites a few years ago. And submitted one of them again a few months ago. A truly "open" site would at the very least explain... if you have not been accepted and why. Even a quick one sentence reply would suffice. Heck... even a "too many comma's" or "too ugly" would do.

How are you supposed to correct something you don't know is a problem???

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All those people complaining about DMOZ have one thing in common. You all are expecting the provision of some sort of service from DMOZ. DMOZ does not provide any services to webmasters, so you all complaining about something that does not exist!

A service should only be expected in return for some sort of payment. How much did you pay DMOZ for this service you seem to be expecting?

"We" (or at least I am) are complaining about something that DMOZ pretends to be (i.e. an open directory) and which is not.

Normally I wouldn't care about a company/website pretending something and not delivering because I would look somewhere else, but with DMOZ, because they are seen as THE open directory with fair judgment and so on ... the search engines trust the listed websites there, give the links more juice, etc. And as a webmaster I do care about how my website is ranked in the search engines.

I guess my major complain is not necessarily about DMOZ, they can do whatever they want, but rather about the way the search engines value DMOZ links, which I consider inappropriate given the current status.

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DO you read thread before posting in them? Then you would know what they what the word "open" in ODP/DMOZ means. It was explained in great detail early in this thread. Again, you just complaining about something that DMOZ is not ... don't figure.

I like your comment that if you don't like a "free service" ask for a refund. I submitted once. Didn't bug anyone at DMOZ and was eventually listed. I don't know how long it took because I don't obsess about such things.
Seriously, folks. just work on making your website the best for the end user and you'll do well.

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That's what I'm doing ... it's not that I can't sleep at night because I find it hard/impossible to get a site listed in DMOZ. I'm just saying ...

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My company's site has been recognized as the best site in our industry (Low Voltage Landscape Lighting) for the past 8 years. It contains several hundred pages of articles and technical documents with over 600 high quality photos of lighting projects.

For the past 8 years, I've tried to get listed with DMOZ (about once a year) - still not listed? No clue why.

Since I start to surf the internet. I knew that my website has slim hope to be apporved by DMOZ. So I don't expect too much from it and just tried to submit it. Of course more than 3 years past, my site still can not be found on DMOZ. But I lost nothing.

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DMOZ is demonstrably evil and inherently dishonest. I have been on the Internet since 1979 and the web since it's creation. I have done sites from family.com to blackhistory.com and was VP of Online Interactive for all the Viacom properties in the 90's. Dmoz did not even exist when most of my sites went up and rarely did any of them get in. I had a site doing 49 live concerts a week for 3 years and they rejected it consistently for any music or live broadcast category. Actually they never told me they rejected it but the site never made it on the list. The only site that ever made it is the worst site I ever did - a single page that redirects to a parking page! They RECENTLY added the bugger and when I applied it was the last millennium!

The real problem for me came when I heard the reason they do not do the job, and why it takes so much time; there aren’t enough editors. I love volunteering and did so. I sent all my credentials, my own site urls and told them I would be happy to review music, movie and entertainment sites only to be told to bugger off as my background would make me too prejudiced. So much for having a great background in entertainment but more telling is their reason. Most people can only imagine you would do what they would contemplate.

So, never one to beat my head on the wall till it bleeds I created my own guide for a niche I like, online TV.

The first thing I did was spider DMOZ for listings, and found 80 percent were old and dead! It was easier to go out on my own to hand pick listings and check ones submitted by visitors.

Dmoz = Demon - At least historically speaking. No can tell what they might do in the future.

I see the future as niche. Just like anything, if you do not specialize you are like all the rest. That goes for search and guides.

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When you ask why you aren't accepted, they just say "It was declined. There's no need to apply again."

That just sounds very stuck up to me.


Besides.. I think only old, crappy, poorly coded sites can get into DMOZ.


Wait.. one of my old, crappy, poorly coded sites got into DMOZ. LOL

DMOZ is a nonsense. As a directory it is useless and badly structured, as a search tool it is bug-ridden and ineffective. One of my sites has been waiting 17 months for review, another 6 months. Many of the sites that are actually in there are appalling, both in content and in presentation. I have no interest in having my sites in the directory, it's simply the link from the associated PR6/7 pages that I want. I have no idea what the editors actually do, but whatever it is it clearly isn't reviewing sites.

You are not the only one waiting for your site to be approved. It is an open human edited directory based on volunteers work. I am also waiting for a review and inclusion since December 2007.

It is too easy to blame others, instead of accepting our mistakes.

So my advise would be to take easy.

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DMOZ is supposed to have been known as the best directory for submission of links
but these days i have noticed that there are any editors to get them approved
because they hardly do that anymore now

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I got one of my sites listed in DMOZ quite quickly about half a year ago, but it made no difference to the site.