Comments on: Psssst — GIVING away DMOZ Editor Accounts!

By: Exterior Shutters

Exterior Shutters — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:36:51 +0000

Good article. I will keep this in mind if I apply to be a DMOZ editor.

By: DrAdam

DrAdam — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:49:15 +0000

That is an awesome article! I had tried to get on there as an editor several times in the past and I had given up hope. Your blog has inspired me to give it another shot. Of course I always had only the right intentions in my requests but I see now how I must have looked like an SEO guy or someone with other intentions because I have worked on many websites in the past. In trying to show expertise I was apparently shooting myself in the foot I guess.
One other point I wanted to stress again is that you need to make sure you don’t pick too broad a category. I was shot down once for that and got a letter basically saying try again with a narrower category. After going through the whole process and then waiting and waiting I didn’t feel like doing it again.
I’ll be sure to let you know if I get in this time. Thanks for the great read!

By: Jim Boykin

Jim Boykin — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:55:26 +0000

John Doe II.
See my third paragraph in the article:

“To start with, I think DMOZ is highly overrated. DMOZ may have been a bigger factoring to rankings in Google in the past, but I doubt that today it’s worth any more than any other link of equal value - that is to say, I doubt that just because you’ve got a link from DMOZ.org that that’s treated different than any other link. There’s lots of people who haven’t changed with the times and are mistaken into thinking it’s a magical factor to ranking high in Google. “

By: John Doe II

John Doe II — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:49:38 +0000

Although your articles are great and full of good and valid content, I disagree with this post (or article).

DMOZ is not worth the effort to submit your site, nor the effort to become an editor.

The juicy categories are already taken, and the non relevant not-trusted categories are where new editors are sent to burn their time and energy.

In my opinion, the link someone here posted to, about becoming an ODP editor, is a trap from John Doe, aka DMOZ meta.
http://becoming-a-odp-editor.blogspot.com/
It’s purpose is to have new naive editors submit applications and keep the noise up and running. Let the public think dmoz is still something, and let the little value it (still) has at Google survive. dmoz categories that aren’t well-established provide same value as any other link.

If your post is not for LinkBait, I would suggest you remove it. Otherwise, at least reverse your recomendation.

Why waste your readers time to apply for DMOZ editorship. 98% chance is they will NOT be accepted, and even if yes - they’ll gain zero from it.

Recommend on becoming a ninja instead.

By: Deviantz

Deviantz — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:54:54 +0000

thanks for sharing this article.. help me a lot!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:21:08 +0000

this site kicks ass! love ur article about DMOZ submission keep it up!

By: Linkbait, Linkbait, Linkbait - Jim Boykin’s Internet Marketing Blog

Linkbait, Linkbait, Linkbait - Jim Boykin’s Internet Marketing Blog — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:58:02 +0000

[...] When we created our Free SEO Tools, that was linkbait….the word linkbait just hadn’t been invented yet. Almost everything I write is linkbait…well kinda…maybe my papers on "How to Become a DMOZ Editor", or my "screw the sandbox, buy an old domain" are more linkbaitish type articles. I’m a link hound by nature….so yea, I’m always looking at things from the angle of "will this get me links?". [...]

By: Petition Against DMOZ Being Used By MSN

Petition Against DMOZ Being Used By MSN — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:35:26 +0000

Great article!

If I had enough extra time on my hands to get accepted as a volunteer for DMOZ, I’d definitely give it a go. But unfortunately for me, the last 10+ times I applied for volunteership and was denied, and the last 30+ sites I’ve suggested were denied was enough time for me to know that throwing in the towel might be my best bet.

I can’t agree more with DmozSucks. I still can’t believe that MSN is jumping on the DMOZ bandwagon! And yes, this is definitely going to cause a LOT of problems to more than SOME websites.

So many people have worked very hard to get good placement in MSN, since Google uses DMOZ and Yahoo is just tough for a lot of people to get listed well, and all of that work has just been flushed down the toilet!

Not only is MSN using the descriptions from DMOZ in their results now (which are sometimes totally irrelevent to the sites main topic), but they are also using them as a deciding factor on top placement.

I run quite a few different websites on quite a few different topics, many of them being listed in the #1 spots for their niches. All of a sudden though, in the past couple weeks that MSN has been using DMOZ, many of my sites have dropped clean off of their SERP’s.

At first I wasn’t sure why this was… but then I was using http://www.uptimebot.com and noticed that most of the listings that used to be below mine, but are now at the top of the results, are listed in DMOZ.

I’m not saying that DMOZ is bad… I honestly feel that their mission is a great idea… but it’s just that there’s already a Google. So now that MSN is using DMOZ, there’s basically gonna be 2 Googles? No more relevent search engines, and no more webmaster-friendly search engines. What a sad time for webmasters that have spent so much time getting top se rankings the “right way”.

By: DmozSucks

DmozSucks — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:46:43 +0000

Wonderful article. It is very hard to dismiss the importance of Dmoz (not the directory itself per se) but the importance that other search engines put on sites listed in it. Google is surely giving more PR to sites listed there, and the fact that many many websites draw there links from Dmoz while many others are mirroring this directory. Google and more recently MSN are using the Dmoz title of websites in their SERPs. which may cause a lot of problems to some websites. So now it seems like it can cause more harm than good to some hard-working webmasters. When visiting the resource-zone where Dmoz editors hang, you can’t but help feel disgusted at their lack of humanity and their attitudes towards the most basic and important enquiries from webmasters.

By: plumsauce

plumsauce — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 04:56:44 +0000

I am the plumsauce mentioned above. Just visiting places found with my nick. The comment I made was sort of tongue in cheek, but it’s nice to be quoted anyways.