Getting Listed in dmoz.org
Very quick post on increasing your chances of being listed in the Open Directory Project. I’m not convinced that its essential for a site to be listed in order to rank well, however it certainly can’t hurt to be listed. Plus for the time it takes to submit its worth it.
If you find a category that has an editor listed at the bottom of it, then you can be reasonably sure that it is being maintained. If a category has “Volunteer to Edit this Category” at the bottom, then chances are that there is a big queue of submissions which aren’t being looked at.
Try using the follow advanced query on Google to find these pages -
site:www.dmoz.org “Category editor:” +your keywords
This should bring back a set of results that are more useful and will get you a better return for your time spent link building.
Another option to get listed in Dmoz is to become an editor, if you are interested in this then there is a great post over at SEOmoz.
Paddy Moogan
Paddy is an SEO Consultant working for Distilled in the London office.
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February 18th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I still think DMOZ makes a little difference. It’s a pain getting in but once you do, it feels like such an achievement!