: Is DMOZ still 'active'? I understand that having a listing in DMOZ isn't necessarily a 'good' backlink to have due to the 'weight' of links from fully categorized listings, but I was wondering

@Moriarity557

DMOZ is shutting its doors on March 14, 2017. This from an announcement currently on the front page.

There's not been any other public declaration of the reasons. From what I can glean from the editors forum this was pretty much a surprise and was announced with very short notice.

So, the answer to the original question is: Yes it is.

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@Welton855

DMOZ directory is dead for various reasons


Web has grown too big to be listed in a web directory. Too many sites.
Favours by corrupts editors have diluted the impact
Site gets updated often, while DMOZ is most of the time once listed forever thing.
Traffic to DMOZ has gone down considerably. Less people use it.
Most of the older DMOZ editors have moved to other interesting projects or are very less active. Its more easier to become a DMOZ editor today than ever before.

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@Murphy175

I recently had a somewhat related discusison about this with the owner of a very large tech forum which took a massive hit after the Google Panda update -- the latest change where they pretty much cracked down on link and article farms (although many forums also fell victim as collateral damage -- but Google tweaked the algorithm soon after) and while I'm not an SEO expert myself, I gathered from the discussion that Google and Bing are now shifting the focus towards social metrics rather than just link counts.

As for as DMOZ and other directories in general, those pretty much fall ;under the linkfarm category to Google so while the site might be up for nostalga purposes, just like the Keyword META tag in HTML, Google and Bing will disregard those.

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@Samaraweera270

I think only an editor can give you a true answer but, from my experience, DMOZ has been awful quiet since Google dropped them in July 2011.

Let's see what the public thinks about DMOZ though...



Ouch.



Update: As of Mar 17, 2017, dmoz.org is no longer available. The editors have set up a static mirror here.

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