Comments on: Submitting a Site to DMOZ http://www.fuzzuck.com/2007/07/23/submitting-a-site-to-dmoz/ A random muse Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:46:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Fuzzuck.com · DMOZ Submission Update http://www.fuzzuck.com/2007/07/23/submitting-a-site-to-dmoz/#comment-33 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:19:35 +0000 http://www.fuzzuck.com/2007/07/23/submitting-a-site-to-dmoz/#comment-33 [...] Back in July, we submitted a site to DMOZ. We walked through the steps of selecting a category, writing a title and description that might be accepted and submitting. [...] […] Back in July, we submitted a site to DMOZ. We walked through the steps of selecting a category, writing a title and description that might be accepted and submitting. […]

]]> by: Fuzzuck http://www.fuzzuck.com/2007/07/23/submitting-a-site-to-dmoz/#comment-30 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:20:07 +0000 http://www.fuzzuck.com/2007/07/23/submitting-a-site-to-dmoz/#comment-30 hvizdak - if you'll read the post again, it mentions that once you've submitted it's time to forget about it and and look for other opportunities to promote your site. Once you've completed the submission process, there's nothing more you can really do when it comes to dmoz. I think you've missed the point. ;) hvizdak - if you’ll read the post again, it mentions that once you’ve submitted it’s time to forget about it and and look for other opportunities to promote your site.

Once you’ve completed the submission process, there’s nothing more you can really do when it comes to dmoz.

I think you’ve missed the point. ;)

]]> by: hvizdak http://www.fuzzuck.com/2007/07/23/submitting-a-site-to-dmoz/#comment-25 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:46:39 +0000 http://www.fuzzuck.com/2007/07/23/submitting-a-site-to-dmoz/#comment-25 "It’s time to now forget about DMOZ and go check out some other great directories or work on improving and promoting your web sites. Seriously. " No. Just because your site isn't listed in DMOZ, there is no reason to say so. There is no greater directory than DMOZ. I don't have all of my sites listed there (which is normal), but DMOZ listing helps a lot. Your post misses one basic aspect... It is negative. If I were you, I would use two points of view. Let's take one site which isn't listed in dmoz and let's take another which is the first one's competitor. Compare these cases. Then it's time to write a post... “It’s time to now forget about DMOZ and go check out some other great directories or work on improving and promoting your web sites. Seriously. ”

No. Just because your site isn’t listed in DMOZ, there is no reason to say so. There is no greater directory than DMOZ. I don’t have all of my sites listed there (which is normal), but DMOZ listing helps a lot.

Your post misses one basic aspect… It is negative. If I were you, I would use two points of view. Let’s take one site which isn’t listed in dmoz and let’s take another which is the first one’s competitor. Compare these cases. Then it’s time to write a post…

]]> by: aviva http://www.fuzzuck.com/2007/07/23/submitting-a-site-to-dmoz/#comment-23 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:21:32 +0000 http://www.fuzzuck.com/2007/07/23/submitting-a-site-to-dmoz/#comment-23 Good tips about submitting to DMOZ. However, I disagree with this statement: "It’s just another link. It might have some authority factor - the listing is human edited prior to inclusion and the search engines to take this into account. How much emphasis is placed on this is relatively unknown, but most feel it’s diminishing as search engine algorithms evolve and they become less reliant on the human factor." I disagree about two things: authority and human factor. As to authority, just looking at the backlinks, domain age and SERPs that DMOZ has, it's hard to believe that the site doesn't have much authority. In fact, normally getting an authority link is quite difficult; whereas, as you have outlined, it's pretty straight forward process to get a link on DMOZ. So, DMOZ remains one of the easiest to get authority links that are out there. As to human factor, if anything I believe that Google is relying on this more and more. Backlinks can be easily obtained, but if the human validation of a site's backlinks isn't there, there can be problems and this will only grow over time. Google is tracking click throughs in SERPs, traffic through Google Analytics, blog subscribers and more. That being said, a good post and the bottom line advice is absolutely spot on: a DMOZ listing is only one miniscule component of any site's success. Good tips about submitting to DMOZ. However, I disagree with this statement:

“It’s just another link. It might have some authority factor - the listing is human edited prior to inclusion and the search engines to take this into account. How much emphasis is placed on this is relatively unknown, but most feel it’s diminishing as search engine algorithms evolve and they become less reliant on the human factor.”

I disagree about two things: authority and human factor.

As to authority, just looking at the backlinks, domain age and SERPs that DMOZ has, it’s hard to believe that the site doesn’t have much authority. In fact, normally getting an authority link is quite difficult; whereas, as you have outlined, it’s pretty straight forward process to get a link on DMOZ. So, DMOZ remains one of the easiest to get authority links that are out there.

As to human factor, if anything I believe that Google is relying on this more and more. Backlinks can be easily obtained, but if the human validation of a site’s backlinks isn’t there, there can be problems and this will only grow over time. Google is tracking click throughs in SERPs, traffic through Google Analytics, blog subscribers and more.

That being said, a good post and the bottom line advice is absolutely spot on: a DMOZ listing is only one miniscule component of any site’s success.

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