DMOZ and it's effects

[leemcgarrigal]

How powerful is the DMOZ directory inclusion regarding page rank on Google?

As DMOZ powers the Google directory surely NOT being DMOZ listed can't be good.

Lee McGarrigal

[jimbeetle]

Welcome, leemcgarrigal.

In the overall scheme of things I think that while a DMOZ listing helps, the extent of that help is in line with that of a link from any other trusted source. And Google's version of the directory has been so de-emphasized within G itself that it no longer mentions it on any of its products or search features pages.

[leemcgarrigal]

The reason I ask is that something (un)funny happened to me ... I used to own a web site which was 'banned' by an editor who owned a competitor web site to my own.

After a while I actually sold the site to someone who had also bought the editor's site. Low and behold it came back on to DMOZ. Now I've set up a newer better version of the site sold (after running out my non compete clause) and trying to list it on DMOZ is proving a losing battle, as you can no doubt imagine.

I just want to make sure that DMOZ doesn;t have the impact it used to hold.

p.s. Is it worth buying my way onto the Yahoo Directory instead?

Lee

[Voodoo]

p.s. Is it worth buying my way onto the Yahoo Directory instead?

Lee

Yeah I had actually wondered if buying into yahoos directory made sense for PR as well, is it a last ditch move or should I be paying the big bucks for most if not all my clients..