Dmoz.org as we all know the largest human edited directory on the web, There are more than 4 millions sites listed and more than 66,777 editors edit over 590,000 categories, Dmoz is really huge, Also Dmoz is an ultimate starting point of crawling for search engines like yahoo, MSN, google, Gigablast, exalead etc, These search engines like sites listed in dmoz and there is always a slight edge over the normal ranking in dmoz,

There are various good points to be listed in dmoz,

1. 100s of mirror sites use Dmoz RDF file to create their own directory, so one link from dmoz is equal to 1000 links from all the sites which use dmoz RDF including a link from the google directory which is a RDF dump of Dmoz,

2. Dmoz is called the best expert directory and yahoo has made it clear it definetely like sites listed in dmoz, Google also feels sites listed in dmoz as authority and gives a small plus for that site,

3. Dmoz data is used by the google directory and google directory is an important listing, google directory shows the pagerank display next to it and sites listed there can check their pagerank values and how their site is performing by checking the categories where their site is listed,

4. Dmoz directory listings perform well in search engines, dmoz categories rank in various places so they get good search engine traffic and all those traffic are returned to the sites listed in that category, so a good top level category listing in dmoz will give good targeted traffic, Though the traffic is not huge it does drive some useful traffic,

5. Dmoz categories have good pagerank, Those pagerank is inherited from their root level pagerank, Dmoz usually has pagerank 9 and more of the top level categories have pagerank range from 4 to 8, Google whose foundation algorithm which was built around pagerank likes links from dmoz categories which has high pagerank,

6. Dmoz links are themed links, those links originate from relevant pages and it is very good when it comes to related pages,

7. Good anchor text from an expert/authority site, If you get a good anchor text when listed in dmoz it is a very good boost for that particular keyword or phrase,

Some draw backs with dmoz,

1. Takes any where between 2 weeks to 2 years for a listing,

2. Many categories dont have editors though higher level editors edit lower level categories it is a slow process,

3. Difficulty in finding status, Except resource-zone.com there are no good ways to find the status of your submission,

There are not many drawbacks with dmoz, A dmoz listing is very good for all sites, though it is not the only solution it is a vital solution for a site, So submit a good site and wait to get listed,

SEO Blog Team,

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