If you own a website, you probably have submitted it on the hundreds of directories in the internet. Well, of course our reason why we submit websites to directories is to get traffic and gain in the traffic link crawlers. One of the well know and one of the longest directories that still exist is DMOZ.
DMOZ has turned 11. AOL even honored the directory site with a blog post for its birthday celebration. Being the largest human-edited website directory, DMOZ is well known especially for site owners and bloggers. Internet giants such as Google even use DMOZ as the base of their own directory such as the one in http://directory.google.com
I, myself, tried for a couple of times to have my sites admitted in the directory. Unfortunately, none of them got it in DMOZ's list. While most other directories will guarantee a space for your site's listing, DMOZ will not even bother sending you a message whether or not it accepted your application.
In DMOZ's 11 years in the industry, it already developed millions of netizens hating it. Most of the sites in DMOZ are inactive. The links don't work anymore and still they are there. The site itself still has its boring look. It's becoming a spam-link site rather than a directory.
Although DMOZ is one of the oldest directories that is still working, it's age has not earned it respect from most people who dwell in the internet.
The directory is not dead. In fact, they are looking for new editors. And even though they rarely add websites to their directory despite following the requirements, Bing.com and Hulu.com were added days before they were even released to the public. It seems like DMOZ is only open for the knowns.
Well, what more can I say, but Happy Birthday. May this be your last. Kidding aside.
