If DMOZ were actually interested in a better internet, they'd shut down. If you're Interested in a better internet, stop using DMOZ Data!

Google, are you listening?

I am not bitter about DMOZ because they won't include me. Actually, every site I have ever submitted to DMOZ has eventually been accepted, Though it might take years. That's exactly half of what makes DMOZ a problem.

First off, I know that a listing in DMOZ no longer makes you automatically rank higher in Google, but it certianly does indirectly. You will eventually rank higher because of all the links that will be generated by the many, many (almost always useless) sites that use DMOZ data.

Now if you're me (and I know you aren't) then you have several high quality unique content sites that are completely within DMOZ's guidelines (And no, this site isn't one of them). You can submit these sites, and then an average of 400 days later you will finally show up in DMOZ. A few months after this your rank will begin to improve from other people using the data.

Instead, if you're the SEO I used to work for then you have hundreds of sites that are word for word copies of existing sites (the insider term for the creation of these sites was "stealing"). Your sites are of no value to anybody, and only serve to generate adsense clicks and marked up drop shipping. Since you have a lot of money (being the quasi-scammer that you are) you just pay your personal DMOZ editor to add your site and you're listed in 3 days. The SEO benefits you recieve from this will always outrank the SEO benefits I received from my 400 day submission due to the fact that sites using DMOZ data do not update with the same frequency as DMOZ itself. There will be numerous sites that you (SEO content thief) receive a link on that will never link to me (little guy with actual content), because there isn't anybody around anymore to update the DMOZ data used on that site.

Also, NOBODY searches DMOZ when browsing the web. Just try it and you'll see why. DMOZ's data is worthless garbage.

What does this come down to? DMOZ in it's current corrupt state ONLY serves to help the scammers, get-rich quickers and content thieves. If DMOZ was actually interested in making the internet better they'd shut down and delete the data. I'd be more than happy to have all my listed sites disappear (from DMOZ) for the sake of a better internet.

I'm doubting this will ever happen. So instead I propose that EVERYBODY show their disgust with DMOZ by not using any DMOZ data and deleting any DMOZ data they might be already using. There are alternatives out there now. Google, I like you. You are actually smart and helpful. Why don't you finally just drop the DMOZ data and set a good example for everybody else? We can never get rid of DMOZ, nor can we force it to produce useful data, but we could actually take it's power away if we all got together and admitted how useless their data truly is.