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DMOZ, Please Die Already
December 01, 2006
I'd like to add to what my fellow co-worker, Tom Lustina, wrote about DMOZ.
DMOZ is a very old entity that needed to die years ago and hopefully will perish soon. DMOZ used to be an incredibly valuable inbound link especially at Google, providing you even got reviewed and indexed in their crappy directory.
I can’t count how many clients I’ve submitted to DMOZ that were never even reviewed. Granted, I only manage a handful of accounts each year, but I’m not the only one fed up with DMOZ’s lack of editorial attentiveness. Ask any SEO about their experience with DMOZ review and approval experience and you’ll see a crazy glaze come over their face like someone just stole their lunch.
As Jill Wahlen points out in one of her more recent posts aptly named “10 Signs That Your SEO Is A Quack�, DMOZ is a great listing to have, but it’s just a link like any other quality human-reviewed directory out there. The main difference here is other directories actually have human beings with a pulse that will typically review & approve or deny your listing in a reasonable time period. Whereas with DMOZ, you’re lucky if you get reviewed inside 12 months if reviewed at all…ever!
In conclusion, my ardent wish is to see DMOZ take the final sail on the Pacific while ablaze in a ritualistic-like farewell to the departed.
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!!
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posted by Sean Bolton at December 1, 2006 09:42 AM
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Comments
I agree. It's time for DMOZ to assume room temperature.
Posted by: Dough at December 1, 2006 11:10 AM
Tell me about it. Been trying to 'Suggest URL' for about a month and get the message:
Service Temporarily Unavailable
We apologize for the inconvenience while we resolve technical problems. Please check back in a day or two.
Those two days have been and gone several times over.
Posted by: Craig Killick at December 2, 2006 05:44 AM
Kill it! I don't even submit to DMOZ anymore.
Posted by: Joel Cheesman at December 2, 2006 05:38 PM
It really does seem to be edging away at the moment, is it to late to save?
Posted by: Kelvin at December 5, 2006 12:36 PM
This article makes a claim that, as I understand it, cannot be backed up. The author says, "I can’t count how many clients I’ve submitted to DMOZ that were never even reviewed." How does he know his submissions were never reviewed? How does he know they were not simply rejected for inclusion?
Then, in the very next sentence he says, "Granted, I only manage a handful of accounts each year, but ... " This seems to contradict what he said in the sentence just before. He "can't count" just "a handful"?
Finally, when is everyone, or even a majority of these naysayers, going to get it thru their thick skulls? DMOZ/ODP are not webmaster SEO tools. Just because we WANT them to be, we cannot fairly expect DMOZ/ODP to bend and conform. They are what they are and they have sole right to decide what their purpose is. Get used to it and move on.
Posted by: Ken Davis at December 17, 2006 01:28 PM
The fact that some people so much want DMOZ to die, proves that it still matters.
Posted by: odp editor at December 17, 2006 04:59 PM
. . . "Many people would like to see ODP completely extinguished, but the ongoing ODP RDF dumps and resulting ODP clones that currently populate the Web make that an impossibility." . .
Posted by: XODP Blog Trackback at February 23, 2007 03:32 PM
You are absolutely right Sean. It is time for change.
Posted by: Neyadhish Chakma at April 10, 2007 02:29 AM
This is now June 2007. DMOZ has been offline for over 48 hours.
Time to pull the plug already.
Posted by: MISHA at July 8, 2007 08:38 AM
"This article makes a claim that, as I understand it, cannot be backed up. The author says, "I can’t count how many clients I’ve submitted to DMOZ that were never even reviewed." How does he know his submissions were never reviewed? How does he know they were not simply rejected for inclusion?"
He doesn't. Because the corrupt, obnoxious wankers don't even have the decency to send you out an automated EMail response. One of these tossers hacked my email address at Yahoo. How do I know? Because I set up purely for DMoz and never used it for anything else!
DMoz belongs in last century along with other evils like Nazism, Communism and Princess Di!!!
Posted by: DMozKiller at December 15, 2007 01:02 PM