fathom - 6:20 pm on Jul 14, 2002 (gmt 0)

Dmoz is pretty useless IMHO. It brings us little traffic, they don't respond to my emails surrounding a rejected application to be an editor (I applied to be an editor for the small town in which I am based, which had no editor, but was told my selection was too broad), and there are numerous reports of unreviewed submissions. What's worse, they still have editors on there freely adding multiple links to their own pages (multiple pages from within one domain, I'm meaning)...

As DMOZ is primarily a research directory it is quite possible that little research is needed in some categories.

For a client - Just 1 page from 1 site gets 300+ visitors a day (although not from DMOZ) the same listings now appears in AOL directory and #1 SERP in google both of which are directly associated with the DMOZ acceptance.

As far as the application to become an editor at DMOZ and the response was too broad, might I suggest reapplying and being more focused.

In addition, some web masters apply just to list their pages and this tends to reflect your

they still have editors on there freely adding multiple links to their own pages

Try again, for the right reasons, you will be accepted... broad can mean you wish to do the same as the above example. Starting small (1 category/sub cat) allows creditability to be developed before letting you loose to help everyone!

[edited by: fathom at 9:11 pm (utc) on July 14, 2002]