The Open Directory Project has a long and important history on the web. It (or dmoz to some) claims to be “the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web.” The Open Directory Project’s main purpose has been to organize information on the web – by reviewing content (websites) submitted to it and listing these sites in the directory. Definitely helpful to users. But its usefulness has gone beyond users. Search engines have accessed new website data to index for their search results. And webmasters have used the ODP to create link power by having their sites listed in the directory. But is this changing? Is ODP as meaningful and useful as it once was?

Some SEO tactics are considered outdated. But I still use them – but for different reasons. Do you still use alt tags in images for SEO? Keyword metatags? What about submitting sites to directories?