How helpful is a backlink from DMOZ?

[Willamette]

[Carrie]

DMOZ backlink is definetly important & valuable but donot expect huge differences just on the basis of DMOZ backlink because it is just one site.

[Mark L Clark]

If we talk about the quality web directory then yes DMOZ is one of the best example. Google trust the directory and use the data of dmoz in their directory. So if a website is approved in this directory atleast 2 excellent backlinks your website will get, first from dmoz and second from google. There are also hundred of web directories using ODP data. So follow the guidelines of dmoz.

[meena]

Dmoz is the best open directory. If you get listed in this directory than many search engines like yahoo , google , bing , lycos , altavista and many more will will indexed you faster .Also it will give you quality backlink for better serp.

[john]

DMOZ has page rank of 9 and if you are listed in this directory, google knows your website is genuine and consider that website is important.

Try to list in Dmoz

[David]

It would be very helpful but don`t expect that alone to shoot you up on the rankings. Also, I am not even sure if DMOZ is still adding new listings to their site.

Anyway, try for it but it is that important if it fails.