: Is it really worth submitting to DMOZ anymore? This question stems from here. This guy sounds like he's getting a bit annoyed with DMOZ, but I was wondering if it's even worth submitting there

@Angie530

DMOZ isn't what is was once paraded to be. Frankly, it's a joke of a project, but there's still SEO utility to be drawn from it.

I highly recommend applying to be an editor of your website's niche. I became the editor of my niche and there were about 600 websites in queue, many of them in queue for years. I'm confident that for most people, you'll become an editor faster than you website will roll down queue.

DMOZ is still a solid backlink. It's worth it because it shouldn't take you long to both submit your site and submit an editor application if you're so inclined. But it's not worth it to then check DMOZ every day and pine over admission to the DMOZ elite. Submit and forget.

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@RJPawlick198

In my experience, submitting to DMoz works less than 1 in 10 times, but that's still better than most link building activities.

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@Pope3001725

Yes. Why? Because it's simple to do and it can be a relatively high quality link. Will it deliver a lot of traffic? probably not. But since it takes only a minute to do and will get you into Google's directory as well why not do it?

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@Nickens628

I didn't read the article but I'm also getting annoyed with DMOZ. As they look for other ways to earn money, I think the quality of the index is likely to go down.

However, I still submit my sites to them. A link is a link. I just won't do anything special and am certainly not going to pay them.

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