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3 years, 4 months ago

Does the Open Directory Project (dmoz.org) still have much effect on search engine ranking and indexing?

Particularly Google and algorithm-based engines? I know it was vital into the early days of the web and fed into Yahoo etc., but now I'd imagine it's less so...
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jasoncalacanis | 3 years, 4 months ago
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From what I'm told DMOZ doesn't carry much weight any more because many of the editors were, in fact, SEOs who were selling links. The integrity and quality of DMOZ was lost ten years ago and would only come back if they flushed the database and started over.

... I know, I tried to buy the DMOZ from AOL and did a lot of research into the quality issues before launching Mahalo. It wouldn't be worth taking the DMOZ from AOL for free in my opinion except maybe for the value of the domain. The dataset is so poluted it can't be reversed.

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bugsy | 3 years, 4 months ago
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Nope, Digg is the new DMOZ.

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djscram | 3 years, 4 months ago
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I don't know if there's a definitive answer, but whenever I look at in-bound links, as ranked by Google, DMOZ doesn't appear very highly.

Below is a post mentioning that in 2008, Google removed their advice to obtain links from the Open Directory:
http://searchengineland.com/google-removes-directory-links-from-webmaster-guidelines-14921
Which doesn't prove anything, but indicates it's not as important as it once was.

I think the link would still have some value, but not more than any authoritative site in the field.

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