DMOZ submission has been a great submission tool since the SEO industry was in its infancy even though you have to be meticulous about crafting your link within their guidelines. In addition, you will have to wait several months before your link is ever seen by an editor. Even though, it’s still the most important free directory out there, and once listed it’s a huge boost for your site’s link popularity.

The DMOZ submission site is It’s well-ranked with over 8,300,000 inbound links in Google, two million in MSN, and over 10 million in Yahoo. Few other directories can hold a candle to it.

Search engines trust it. Using the DMOZ submission to generate search result snippets with many search engines instituted a new meta tag to let web designs say when not to use it. That sort of trust doesn’t come easily.

The DMOZ submission site is so deep and detailed that dozens of other directories simply duplicate its listings. While none of these other directories have anywhere near the weight of the original, they still amount to a lot of link distribution with minimal effort.

For the past few months DMOZ submission has been flatlining editorial access have been down since late October due to a large-scale hardware failure.

Yes, you read that correctly; DMOZ submission has been inactive for seven weeks, with no word on when being spoken by the admins as to when it might come back up.

Still, I’m not about to disregard DMOZ submission process. As all the points above indicate, there’s plenty of value in a DMOZ listing. More importantly, it’s the sort of value that isn’t developed overnight. Even if DMOZ loses some value as a result of this extended outage, it’ll still be well worth the effort to submit. Heck, even if they lose so many editors that I only have a 10% chance of getting reviewed in the first year, I’ll still be looking for DMOZ submission. There’s just too much potential value to ignore.

Update: According to the DMOZ submission policy, editorial access has been restored but everything else (like the site submission form) is still down. This definitely comes as welcome news, although not all we were hoping for.

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