Comments on: DMOZ 2.0 Rumored to Launch at End of March

By: SEO Essex

SEO Essex — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:45:24 +0000

Dmoz is still a very powerful form of linking but my category has not been updated for six months!

By: Den Smith

Den Smith — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:35:14 +0000

As I said earlier, I wouldn’t put too much importance on it now. There are plenty of high ranking sites that are not listed. Instead concentrate on getting quality back links. It will do you a lot more good.

By: urwaind

urwaind — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:16:40 +0000

I am trying for last two year to get listed in Dmoz but……….
Its realy hard to get listed in Dmoz.

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 08 May 2010 21:54:44 +0000

I have had the experience of being a dmoz editor. For a standard editor, it’s like being back at school again, the edits you do are always checked and sometimes altered by the meta editors – this could sometimes be frustrating & insulting as I was giving up my spare time to help clear the “never ending” list of unreviewed submissions.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:38:31 +0000

If “Tom Says:

April 1st, 2010 at 6:40 am
That was an April Fool’s joke, right?”

that was directed to me then no it wasn’t an April fools joke.

When dmoz first started it was good doing what their mission statement said, but after power hungry people joined the worked their way up then changed everything, now the directory is so ful of drama and darkness, I really hope they do bomb! lol They need to see what their actions do.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:00:20 +0000

I truly don’t understand why Google and others place such reliance on DMOZ, which is outdated, and so hard for good new sites to get listed in.

If it worked the way it was intended to then it might be OK, but as it is it maintains those older sites in a position of prominence they no longer deserve.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:40:40 +0000

That was an April Fool’s joke, right?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:46:11 +0000

I worked over at DMOz after if first started back in 1999 or well I joined a little bit after. Granted I was young at the time and my grammer was not the best, but regardless I worked there for about 2 – 3 years and steped down to go through some college, I came back in 2005 or 2006 and re applied to find that I couldn’t, I went to the public forums and asked about doing a reinstatement which I had done, I gave all the information I could to an “ADMIN” Jimmy for short dont want to give out a name, he told me to email him with as much info as I could, such as Edits when leaving, email address, all the categories I edited in and why I left and the exact reason that I typed in for removal.

Now after 4-5 years I dont really remember my old email address or exactly how many edits I had. He told me I lied to him that I was not who I said I was and that I was trying to hack into another editors account…??? What I told him it was me that I wasnt hacking I just wanted to re instate and edit again. He then told me that he didnt make the decision but about 50 other “META” editors and editalls agreed that I should never edit again and that if I applied again “Legal actions” would be taken?? That I am sorry is very rude and well I hope DMOZ goes under!

There was never an email sent to me stating that I couldnt reapply and they would never tell me the reason for not letting me re apply, they even blocked my IP address from DMOz so now when I go to access it it pulls a blank page or if I look at the public forum it wont let me do anything.

If I would have gotten an email I wouldnt feel this way.

I hope the 2.0 is a huge dud!

Too many old people that that think they have some kind of power and they abuse it, also I know they have mentoring programs if it was just based on my editing im sure it could have been fixed by this program.

Ill be the one laughing when this project bombs haha.

Just my two cents.

By: Bob Henry

Bob Henry — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:04:13 +0000

DMOZ 2.0 will absolutely not make a difference. All the kings technology and all the kings editors will not change DMOZ. It is stuck in “group think”. It is a harmful organization to businesses who invest time and money to get their brand marketed.

They would need a “signifigant emotional event” i.e. Google dumping them, in order to realize they have not kept pace. What the Internet needs is a professional society such as “ISO standards” by which sites can become certified. This certification would provide an assurance to the end user and a metric for measurment of web site quality.

It would also provide the industry a baseline upon which to improve quality and organization. DMOZ editors could begin editing Facebook pages or watch Youtube videos in pursuit of their “hobby” and their “fun” as one editor had commented in a web forum, his motive for editing.

Regarding Den Smith, DMOZ editors comment. Kudos, for telling it the way it is! I have gotten the feeling that, there is a supervising editor who spends an awful lot of his time in forums and has a cocky attitude. Without naming him, he is destroying the organization and not taking care of business, in my opinion. I would like to know if others are aware of this?

By: DMote

DMote — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:14:18 +0000

Dmoz is doing more harm than good and should be shut down. It certainly is not open because of all the issues that are widely know yet Google places too much emphasis on it. Every webmaster should do their bit to have this disgraceful thing shut down.