Google devalues ​​links from DMOZ and Yahoo?

At least, this is exactly how SEO-optimizers around the world perceived the fact that the recommendation to register a new site in authoritative directories was removed from Google’s official webmaster guidelines. Moreover, the change has so far been seen only in the English version of the manual , and the Russian version still contains this phrase: “Submit the site to the appropriate directories, for example, in the Open Directory Project and Yahoo !, and to industry-specific professional sites.

Google employee John Muller commented on this fact in the Google Webmaster group . Help : “You shouldn't assume that we devalue links from Yahoo, I just think that this is not the thing that we should recommend. If people think that the catalog will lead to a large number of visitors (I once had one visitor with DMOZ), then, of course, it will be correct to register in it. But this is not something that people are obliged to do. ”

Source: www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/10/03/google-devaluing-dmoz-and-yahoo-links