Importance of being listed in DMOZ for organic SEO

Is it a must?

[silverbytes]

Organic seo is very good thing. Maybe the starting point is dmoz, but can you expect a good ranking without a dmoz listing (considering you have a good pr, optimized pages, and so on)?

Any experienes of not being listed in dmoz and have good rankings out there?

[Marketing Guy]

It isn't essential - there are plenty of sources of good links out there. Just for a time it was the easiest "good" link to get so a lot of people would start there.

IMO, submit and forget about it - move on to somewhere else.

MG

[silverbytes]

Sounds logical but I don't see where.
Can you tell more about "somewhere" (if you can't maybe sticky)

[Marketing Guy]

Other quality links, etc. Nowhere specific. Business.com is a good next step, as is the Yahoo directory.

[petra]

Its good to be in DMOZ because you are automatically listed in hundreds of mirror directories but the links from these directories do not generate much traffic and as for the PR effect, its negligible as the value G places on these links is very low.

[tedster]

One of the things that initially made DMOZ a "must have" was that AOL used to use it to get into their search results. I think that was a big factor in building the DMOZ reputation years back. It is no longer our situation.