The Business of Software

I have applied for a listing in Feb, Jul and Oct. Nothing. Has anyone else been successful in the last 12 months? How long did it take?

Submitted mine quite a while ago (Maybe September?), still not showing up.

You're probably better off. DMOZ has many many downsides. The biggest one is that since anyone can download the info and start their own directory site they do. The people that download don't start nice little directories they start spam filed directories. That's really bad for your SEO because you'll then have thousands and thousands of inbound links to your site from bogus spam directories.

Submitted mine in September... nothing yet. Has anyone in this forum paid for a directory listing on Yahoo etc... and if so, did it prove fruitful? Maybe I'm just plain cheap, but this just seems like one of those things it doesn't feel right paying for :-)

Hi,

I submitted our site over 2 years ago and nothing from DMOZ. What I've heard is that it also depends on the editor's mood and their time. It can happen that the person does not "feel" like your site belongs and hence will not list it. Also you have to hope that the editor of your directory is not associated with your competitors and abuses their power, which unfortunately it has been known to happen...

As for the Yahoo Directory. We've purchased it twice. It doesn't work for everyone, but for us it's been worth it. We get consistent traffic from it, and it helps for SEO purposes (Google seems to give it some decent weight, probably because of the associated price). At the end of the day, if it brings in more than it costs, then you purchase it.

Regards,
Stephane Grenier
http://www.LandlordMax.com
http://www.FollowSteph.com

A Yahoo directory submission is $299 per year/per category. And then you don't get your money back if they don't list it! Haven't decided whether to go for it. Seems a bit of a rip-off.

It seems like Dmoz has not enough editors in the software categories and the existing editors are too busy or lazy.

Solution: some on of us will apply for the editor position and will approve all our submissions. Any volunteer?

Dennis, I started to at one time (for a section i'm interested in as a hobby), but they scared me off my the amount of essays you need to write before someone on high gets around to approving you.

I added Surfulater well over a year ago and zip has happened. I think DMOZ is a dead duck these days.

Submitted to DMOZ almost 2 years ago, no luck.

I did pay for Yahoo Directory ($299 or whatever) to get listed, and it does seem to help the Google ranking a bit.

Other than that, no big impact, so it's hard to say whether it's worth it or not.  This might be a coin flip.

Myabe that $300 spends easier on PPC ads?

dmoz has become an insider's directory. you only get in if you are connected to the editor of the category in some way. They claim the opposite of course. This is what happens when a free service becomes valuable. The unpaid volunteers parlay their hard work into value for themselves. Talk to any of them and they are so full of themselves about their mighty volunteer efforts. Then take a look at each editor's personal sites listed not once, but multiple times throughout dmoz. It's sickening.

A dmoz listing is very valuable because it feeds into google directly. Unfortunately it is closed to the majority. If you are not in now, you wont get in. Totally corrupt. Started out with lofty ideals though.

Well, that sucks ass.

I submitted microISV.com to DMOZ a month or two ago and was entered into the directory in about 3-4 weeks.  I don't know the editor but I assume its a possibility that the editor is a reader of the site.

I requested an update to our listing a few months back and it went through OK. The editor obviously looked over our site before writing the new listing. I have no idea who the editor is, so they weren't doing me a favor.

I submitted a freeware image cataloguing tool ( http://www.daremon.gr/cheez/ ) and it was posted in about two months. That was 3 years ago though.

Lots of inbound links from directory sites but no good traffic came of it.

FWIW

http://www.corruptdmozeditor.com/

I submitted 18 months ago, no joy. Most of the links in the relevant directory page are tired or broken. Asked ONCE about progress and copped sanctimonious blather.

Rumours are Google is moving away from considering DMOZ when establishing pagerank.

IANAExpert YMMV

I've seen the corruptdmozeditor site before. If you follow some of the links from his site, they're all connected to the adult industry. It's hardly surprising that there's corruption in that sector.

What bugs me about DMOZ is the lack of transparency. Who are the editors? What is in the queue and how long have they been there? It's a big black hole.

Funny, I didn't notice the xxx factor at all. Reading through some blog hits from a search on "DMOZ corrupt" some of the specific gripes were about real estate.

No matter. Nothing has changed in the relevant DMOZ directory pages for years ...

Took me over 6 months to get my site listed on DMOZ. That happenned about a month ago and my site still has the same low Google rating. And for what it's worth I don't have any a connection to DMOZ editors...

Out of frustration I even volunteered to become a topic editor,  but was rejected because I classified some sample test submissions into the incorrect suburb of Dublin Ireland!

I don't work for Google,  but I've found Adwords to be more effective in bringing traffic in than paid directory listings on Yahoo! or Google.