Get listed in DMOZ

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What is it?

DMOZ has been around for years and anyone who knows about search engine optimisation will know all about it. It's called the Open Directory Project. The URL is www.dmoz.org

The name originally came from directory.mozilla.org with Mozilla(Netscape) being the company that owned it.

Why Bother with it?

Because search engines love it. So get your website listed there!

Having a listing on DMOZ should help your rankings because the site is edited by humans. You can become an editor yourself if you want to.

It's not as easy to become an editor of DMOZ as it is for say Wikipedia because you have to be "accepted" and can only edit a specific area that you are selected for.

The open directory is the largest human edited directory there is. It's basically doing what Yahoo used to do a few years ago.

Because it is edited by humans, it is considered to have more clout than lots of others automated directories and this is why having a link there can help with your search engine optimisation.

Another reason is that because it's free, the site in theory gets edited only by people who are interested in a particular category and therefore again the search engines value it more than sites that are automated.

However, I know from experience that getting your site listed can take ages because there is such a backlog of sites waited do be added. The queue is so long because of so many submissions from spammers and automated services which have made it awkward for bona fide businesses.

My advice is to ensure that you have at least tried to get your site listed under the correct category and don't submit your site multiple times as you can get black listed.

If and when you are listed it's a bonus. You could even use the Google alerts service that I mentioned last time when the category that you are under changes either with your listing or that of a competitor.

By no means should you limit yourself to this directory of course as there are loads of other free directories as well. It's just that this is possibly the best known one. Craigslist is another...there's plenty to do!

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'till next time,

Mike Knight. MKLINK Internet Marketing Tips