Emergency Link __marker. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Emergency Link __marker. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Follow. ZEEF | Curated Directory | Find information through people. Hyperlink. ZEEF. Parent Link. Good Content Curation Tools. Untitled. Dmoz closed as of Mar 14, 2017. After 18 Years, DMOZ Is Closing Down. DMOZ, one of the oldest and most trusted web directories announced on their home page yesterday that they are closing up shop. The site is going offline March 14, 2017. DMOZ launched on June 5, 1998, over 18 years ago and will be shutting its doors in 14 days from now. DMOZ just did a large redesign less than a year ago. This comes after Yahoo closed the Yahoo Directory a couple years ago. Here is a picture of the home page as it looks today: There is tons of discussion around this in the SEO community.
We have WebmasterWorld, Creasite Forums, Google Web Search Help, BlackHatWorld and more. John Mueller said the it isnt the end of the web and SEO is not dead: Here are some of the other comments from the community: Wow, not that it will change the face of the World, but it was one of the big thing of the Internet, at some point. Sad. Back in the day, we all wanted to start with the letter "A". Old and out dated model, this was going to be on the cards eventually. And an SEO question: Yahoo Directory To Go Offline. Yahoo announced that they are closing down the Yahoo Directory. Yahoo was founded on the directory, it was what Yahoo was built on - it was the first real popular search engine (human edited). Yahoo is shutting it down! But should they be allowed to do so? Aren't there rules about closing down historic sites? Back in 2010 and earlier, Yahoo shut down the international directories but I never thought it would reach the main directory.
In my opinion, something needs to be done. Here is our past coverage of the Yahoo Directory and Danny Sullivan has a wonderful write up of it on Search Engine Land. Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Cre8asite Forums.