Why DMoz listing is important?

Think of it, SEO is all about making sure that the search engine gives due importance to your web content (web site or blog) in search engine rankings or its SERPs (search engine result pages).

Search engines like Google, Yahoo etc automatically crawl your website for content and have little or no human involvement in understanding your content quality and relevance to its domain, title and meta, which can all be stuffed with keywords just to promote the site.

On the other hand, a listing in DMoz is a test of patience and site quality. One needs to manually submit the site to the irectory, where each content category has its own editor. You cannot submit content to more than one category and cannot get an anchor text for SEO. The editor will visit your site and then only approve the site for listing.

With such high level of validation, it is only wise that search engines give due weightage to a DMoz listing.