Why Dmoz is closed?

[Marc van Leeuwen]

DMOZ has officially closed after nearly 19 years and I want to know what reasons they closed this directory? are web directories not worth in 2017 any more?

 

[SEOPub]

Are web directories not worth what? Not worth owning?

 

[Marc van Leeuwen]

Marc van Leeuwen

Not worth for SEO rankings and having backlinks on them?

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

Directories are great if you use the right ones.

 

[robert4u]

Directories are not more useful, dmoz was created when there were no search engines, people use to search websites through directories like dmoz. It is also discussion to convert dmoz to forum by aol management not sure about that.

 

[vishwa]

vishwa

Yes! They have already launched their forum name resource zone. Check it here:- https://www.resource-zone.com/forum/

 

[ryanatkins]

Agreed. Yelp, YellowPages, Clutch are worth using. While one should avoid using any random directory site.

Directories are great if you use the right ones.

 

[ORLOVA]

I think as usual we always see directories from SEO point of views, not for search purposes, this is the only reason directories are not worth full as before, because people doing spam on directories.