Is DMOZ Directory Submission a Must for Link Building?

Often I hear people asking the question whether DMOZ directory submission is a must or important for a link building campaign. Lot of people also complain that they submit to DMOZ but never hear back or find their sites on the directory at all.

These are actually very common concerns among site owners and online marketers. DMOZ used to be a very important element of link building and site promotion once. Listing your site on this giant directory would not only ensure Google directory listing but also would ensure listing with lot of other individual search engines and web directories.

It is a matter of great regret that DMOZ miserably failed to uphold its reputation and dignity as an important impartial web directory. If we analyze how the administration works around this directory, we see that the submissions people make are at the mercy of category editors.

These editors are not paid DMOZ employees but non-paid volunteers. Since one good way to ensure listing of a site is by being an editor at DMOZ for that selected category, lot of site owners familiar how DMOZ works end up signing up as DMOZ editors.

There have been lot of abuses done by these volunteer editors and some are even known for extortions. A DMOZ editor once asked for a fat bribe from ShoeMoney and threatened him that his site would be removed unless the editor didn’t get the money he demanded. Talking about bureaucracy!

. Web 2.0 and social media sites opened the world of link building opportunity for which DMOZ directory submission which is so challenging is hardly being used by many site owners these days. There are ton of other individual directories out there also for which submitting to DMOZ is not a must anymore. In fact, lot of seasoned veterans think that it is nothing but a total waste of time even thinking about DMOZ directory submission as it has proven to be nothing but a wild goose chase for then for many many years now.

If you are putting together a link building campaign and were considering DMOZ directory submission, then it doesn’t really hurt to go ahead and submit. Submit and forget is however suggested. Move on to the next to do in your link building campaign and keep building backlinks accordingly.

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