listing in DMOZ

Hi All,
if your site is listed in open Directory(DMOZ), your site will get higher Ranking.
Is it True? Thanks

No. Not true at all.

DMOZ gives you one more incoming link. That's all. You'll get the same effect from any other incoming link assuming the links come from a page with equivalent PageRank. And remember, the value of PR passed to you is, firstly, a function of how many outgoing links are on the originating page:

PR passed to you = .85 * PR of originating page/# outgoing links on originating page

And, yes, people will tell you about all those DMOZ clone directories that give you hundreds of additional links... they don't. That's what "duplicate content filters" are all about, discounting clone pages and clone links.

And, yes, people will tell you about all those DMOZ clone directories that give you hundreds of additional links... they don't. That's what "duplicate content filters" are all about, discounting clone pages and clone links.There are reputed directories using DMOZ clone, as far as I have read one good example = google directory a clone of dmoz.

There are reputed directories using DMOZ clone, as far as I have read one good example = google directory a clone of dmoz.

Yes. And what evidence have you seen ever, especially in the past couple of years, that Google even gives extra weight to their own clone links? For the past couple of years at least, everything that Google has done with respect to their own directory shows progressive devaluation of its importance evn to Google.

Google might devalue (although I am not sure) sites listed on DMOZ, but MSN/YAHOO do give them very good weightage.

Google might devalue (although I am not sure) sites listed on DMOZ, but MSN/YAHOO do give them very good weightage.

1. I didn't say that Google devalued sites listed in DMOZ. I said that Google devalued clone DMOZ directory links via the duplicate content filter.

2. What evidence have you seen that MSN or Yahoo! gives any extra weight to DMOZ listed sites?