“someone waste 100+ hours”
Why exagerate?
“To include one website?”
That’s exactly the attitude of a person who should not be an editor. The reason to apply is to make the Internet a better place for the topic you apply to. If you only care about your own site you should be rejected.
“No one I know has ever been approved.”
A couple dozen people a day are. Maybe you hang out with the wrong crowd.
“Dmoz has no special relationship with search engines.”
http://www.inktomi.com/products/web_search/oemsolutions.html
“Inktomi leverages the Open Directory Project (ODP) to further improve the user experience on distribution partner sites. ODP title, description and category meta data is used to enhance Inktomi’s relevant search results. ODP is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web with a global community of volunteer editors.”
You couldn’t be more wrong. Fortunately having people who believe white is black is good for the rest of us.
Linking to the most relevant category page in dmoz (or the Google or Yahoo directories) is currently just about the best easy, simple seo tactic in terms of Google. This is because Google recognizes DMOZ as an authority. I personally couldn’t care less if it *IS* an authority, I only care that search engines consider it important.
Please save the sarcasm for someone who wants to fight on a message board.
If you don’t think it is valuable, fine. What are you getting all worked up over? Forget about it. Go to another thread.
An example of a site deserving its dmoz listing is this one. Others are Winner Online, GPWA, Casino City Press, BJmath.com, etc. etc.