I believe that dmoz is so overrated, there are lots of myths that once your site has been submitted in dmoz it will rank well in search engines. But the truth is even though dmoz gives quality backlink for your site, it is still not enough to ensure that you will rank high on search engines specially google, for you still need to work on building links on authority sites.

By the way it seems like dmoz is really getting old, there are lots of dead links and recently I am trying to submit the new site I was optimizing and encountered error while submitting until I finally give up on submitting it. does anyone encountered this also?

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