I quite often get asked by clients about getting listed on DMOZ.
For those of you that do not know what DMOZ is, which is probably quite a lot of you, DMOZ the Open Directory Project says this:
"The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors."
The clients that ask me about DMOZ have usually done a little research and found out that DMOZ directory data is supposedly now used by the majority of major search engines and Google supposedly gives a large boost to sites that appear in DMOZ.
This may well be true but I would not get too obsessed about getting a listing on DMOZ.
It is possible to achieve prominent top positions on Google for websites that are not listed on DMOZ, in fact listing clients websites on DMOZ is not something that I have ever found a need to do..
For those of you worried about not being listed on DMOZ, I would say - stop worrying.
Providing that you have top positions on Google, Yahoo or MSN for most of your websites relevant keywords why worry about DMOZ ?
Only worry about DMOZ if you feel that not being listed is preventing your website from achieving top positions on Google, which is probably not the reason why anyway.
DMOZ - don't worry.
