DMOZ - Is it worth it?

For those of you that don't know, DMOZ also known as the Open Directory Project was started in the 1990's by Netscape. It's sole purpose to be the internet's number one authority human edited directory.

DMOZ/ODP quickly established itself as the authoriative directory and soon webmasters were clammering to get their websites a DMOZ listing.

This subsequently increased when google decided to use the DMOZ rdf dump to base the google directory on.

In my opinion and that of many webmasters, a listing on DMOZ is one of many important goals when trying to establish your domain and it's presence on the web.

However getting listed on DMOZ is not the be all and end all. Indeed, due to the number of suggestions made to DMOZ daily and the few editors in relation to websites out there, even getting your site reviewed by an editor could take several years.

So in short do not get hung up in trying to attain a DMOZ listing. This is especially so if you run a gambling portal. It is incredibly hard to get a new site listed in one of the gambling categories. Unfortunately this is primarily due to the amount of spam sites which are submitted daily.

If your website is of a sufficient enough quality, provides insightful unique content to it's visitors, then it will in time get noticed by a DMOZ Editor and will get listed. This goes for the gambling category as much as any other.

I am of the view that DMOZ does add quality to the internet and provides a useful resource for it's visitors. With this I can completely understand why google bases it's directory listing on DMOZ.

The job of the editors is a thankless task and somehow this is to be expected.