DMOZ traffic growing

[jacon4]

Ever since the yahoo change over last month, i have been getting alot more traffic from dmoz....anyone else seeing this?

[Laisha]

Not at all. In fact, most of my clients see less traffic from DMOZ than they did 2 years ago. It's been declining since mid-2000.

[Macguru]

>>Not at all.
Neither from my planet.

[jacon4]

well yeah, thats what i mean, dmoz was so slow for me that i stopped tracking it years ago. not anymore, it's getting now about 10 unique visitors a day on my site where before the yahoo change, mabe 10 a month? a year? still, its not blowing my doors off but with the engines in so much flux these days, i'll take the 10 uniques a day and hope for more.

[rfgdxm1]

I see little action from the DMOZ. Years ago when search engines weren't so good directories were more important. This isn't the case today.

[WebManager]

I get very few hits from DMOZ - I really don't think the average web user knows about it.

I've always thought that its dual title - DMOZ / Open Directory - causes confusion among the public. If they stuck to just one name - or even renamed it with a "relaunch" I'm sure web users would discover its quality.

(easy to forget though, that it is copied all over the web in places even us webmasters don't know about - the indirect hits could be quite significant)

[ettore]

The aim of the ODP is not to get traffic from the public, but to build a comprehensive collection of sites which will be useful for the public when used by ODP downstream users.

Actually, most of the traffic on the dmoz server coming from the public side is from webmasters submitting sites, or checking the status of their sites (and it's already a lot of traffic), with a small percentage of visits from surfers. OTOH, we shouldn't forget the traffic generated on the server by the hundreds of sites using DOP data with a fetching sctript.

I would really like to see the traffic on the server reduced to pure submissions, with no surfers at all :) Less bandwidth, less server load, and ODP would continue serving the surfer through its downstream users.

Therefore, do not expect much traffic directly from ODP (also notice that a portion of this small traffic could very well be from competitors checking your site while looking for their own), nor a "relaunch" of any sort.