The Open Directory Project has a long and important history on the web. ODP or dmoz 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. Its usefulness extends beyond users. Search engines access new websites to index data for their search results. Webmasters use the ODP to create link juice by listing their sites 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Some SEO tactics are considered outdated.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?