Does DMOZ listing improve “content crawling” hits?

I read forum threads. Let me acknowledge:
I know DMOZ has nothing to do with Google, Yahoo, or any search engine.
I know you have nothing to do with web “content crawlers.”
I know no one should rely on DMOZ without any targeted marketing plan.

DMOZ forum moderators have driven home these points to countless people. Many keep asking these questions because it is not so easy to find answers about how the Web works.

My one page that was accepted into DMOZ was soon caught and proliferated by thousands of portal directories around the world, which resulted in thousands of page hits, compared to my page that was not listed, which still has almost no hits. So I understand why outsiders keep petitioning you guys as if you are the Gods of the Internet!

My other big source of hits comes from Google’s ability to “content crawl.” Surfers can search by keywords from deep within my text content, and Google instantly gives them my page. Yahoo doesn’t seem to crawl so deep, so I don’t get keyword hits from Yahoo.

I know you cannot speak for Google. So I would like to ask, in your opinion or feeling, or experience or knowledge:

Do you think being listed by DMOZ, then picked up by countless global directories, somehow increases hits from Google’s content crawling? I ask because my page not listed in DMOZ also doesn’t get content crawling hits.

It's a well known fact that google likes sites that have lots of inbound links better than sites that don't have any. Comparing a site which has no inbound links and one that has one by (the ODP or any other place), the second one most likely will be visited more often by their crawler.

I read forum threads. Let me acknowledge:
I know DMOZ has nothing to do with Google, Yahoo, or any search engine.
I know you have nothing to do with web “content crawlers.”
I know no one should rely on DMOZ without any targeted marketing plan.

DMOZ forum moderators have driven home these points to countless people.

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If you know all of this, why are you asking anyway?

Does anyone think that there is a bleak chance that a part of the answer to this question also lies somewhere in DMOZ's history itself? DMOZ made history as one the oldest and most respected directories of our time (Thank God for giving us DMOZ).

Now we would all agree, "without fuel there isn’t any fire and without any fire there isn’t any smoke".
And it so happens to be that all these years, DMOZ (maybe unintentionally) has always played a major role of the 'fuel', to 'fire' up almost all these engines (Search Engines) & directories. Infact one can now say to such an extent that maybe without DMOZ, most of new Search Engines and directories wouldn’t even exist or get that kind of jump-start.

However all the incoming links to DMOZ simply implies, (no matter how big or small) all Search Engines, countless global directories and endless number of websites just cant help falling in love with DMOZ for the many reasons.

Of which some obvious ones which I see are, that its ‘totally Free’ (in all respects 'No charges' whatsoever), its comprehensive and ever growing database of nothing less than quality websites, behind the scenes working are very extremely talented and focused team of experts along with a dedicated and very committed team of volunteers (aka metas, editors), together from across the globe they spend time and effort to pick and choose these websites. Alongwith the support of efficient webmasters, who keep on updating the content to keep the website fresh and alive 24/7. DMOZ has ears to listen as they continue to provide their unconditional help and support (http://resource-zone.com) to the common peoples queries from all parts of the world. Also last but not the least, DMOZ's simplicity in its overall website design, usability, content information and the entire website architecture which makes its content so easily 'crawlable' by almost all Search Engines Algorithms (aka spiders or bots). All this explains why everybody doesn’t seem to get enough of DMOZ.

There’s absolutely No denying for this basic reason that, there is none another directory like DMOZ, for all that as I mentioned above “they are indeed a tough act to follow”.

In short, DMOZ is the only directory you'll find which is in the true manner of speaking "A directory of the people, For the people and By the people" ... live and kickin ...

And believe it or not Gawain (I am saying this bcoz I've seen it done wonders to many websites) once your website gets listed especially in this prestigious directory then there’s no stopping your website from appearing in all those Search Engines and many other countless global directories (who openly or quietly share DMOZ's database of websites) and your website may even eventually end up reaching out to the world ('worlds' maybe someday I wish).

(Dont know why, but you will find very few people agree to this. In the end, its become difficult for both entities to understand eachother and how for the people it has now become so very important to be in “DMOZ” and people at DMOZ need to include quality and important websites only. But that I guess, is another story to tell ...)

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