Any editors of DMOZ around?

[miko67]

Just wondering if anyone would ever volunteer to be an editor for DMOZ, and talk about it... or if it's a secret like when you work for Google :p

[MarkB]

I'm a dmoz editor (just recently reinstated! Originally signed up back in 2000 or something).

[symetrix]

Anyone from DMOZ want to go thru the hassle of getting my site listed for me? :p

[davert]

Hi, MarkB. Reinstated due to absence or reconsideration of rejection?

[Jackobo007]

I'm a dmoz editor (just recently reinstated! Originally signed up back in 2000 or something).

Hi Mark,
I'm trying to list www.Shaislighting.com (http://www.Shaislighting.com) forever with no luck so far. :confused:
Any suggestions how to get listed ?
Jack

[reppy]

I've been trying to get my site blindradar.com listed forever. :(

Well, OK, 3-4 months. But still! In the world of "instant", even 3 days is forever. ;)

[miko67]

Guys.. really. The way you instantly fall over poor old MarkB, it's no surprise that no one else comes forth :p

I was considering to try it myself... but wondering if it's any fun :(

[joeychgo]

I was thinking the same thing.

[davert]

I think if dmoz would just set up a "search for status of your site" system, which would not take TOO long, it would save them TONS of email. Otherwise you don't know if you've been rejected or why - I had a site rejected for an outage that occured when my server was having trouble, and it's been about 8 months on line for reconsideration, but if an editor had not told me that, or that you're only allowed to resubmit once a year or something like that...

A status report would be VERY handy. For that matter, so would some form of appeal. Or, for that matter, getting more editors to visit the categories in dire need of processing.

[pwaring]

I've been an editor as I mentioned in another thread, gave it up though when they kept refusing to let me expand my edit priviledges beyond my one category, even though the extras ones I applied for were where I had local knowledge and weren't getting seen to because of lack of editors.

[roadies]

I'm an editor for the one of the video gaming categories

Editors know how frequently they should check for links for their category. For me, being an editor is easy because I only need to log in once a month and I have a policy of not submitting to other categories (so please don't ask), unless it was a link submitted to my category that needs to be re-categorized. I can also tell if someone really tried to get the right category, or if they are trying to get another editor to push their link for them.

[roadies]

Only log in once a month...
meaning my category doesn't get many submissions so I know the frequency I need to visit.

Some editors need to log in once a week, day, or maybe a few times a day or thinks will back up quickly.

[miko67]

Seems like it could be fun to try out... anyway, thanks a lot to you editors for sticking your heads up, so to speak :)

[macdesign]

I generally log in several times a day. If I go more than a day without editing, things start getting out of hand. On a daily basis I can expect to find a minimum of five misfiled sites that need to be moved, along with possible new sites, and other issues. On a heavy activity day, I might find 50 sites to be dealt with, including reviews deletes and moves. Usually less than 25% are sites to be reviewed.

Occassionly the dreaded internal Robozilla gets to work -- it starts to go through everyting knocking out sites that have gone dead, been hijacked, etc. When that starts running, sites start getting unreviewed very fast, and you can sometimes see by the minute the numbers changing, at the end of day of that, I might have hundreds of sites to be checked to make sure they are down, and to try and find a new URL for them.

[seoxperts]

I am an editor in a regional category.

[sue]

Hi Xperts,
Is it ok to submit a site to two categories? Its already in the main category but since the site has grown and also has loads of regional information. Im worried about submitting it again as ive heard you get your original listing removed!!..

[seoxperts]

yes, ok to submit in your appropriate biz category and the right regional category.

[roadies]

If you submit to multiple categories, be sure to submit different pages to the different categories. Some editors (not all) are picky about that.

[macdesign]

be sure to submit different pages to the different categoriesThis is very bad advice, do not follow it. It's a flagrant violation of the guidelines.

[roadies]

Not bad advice, just poorly communicated. Sorry to those I misguided.

yeah, if you submit every one of your pages on your site to different categories, that is submission spam and you'll get blacklisted.

I was only thinking about one of my domains in particular when I stated it. I basically run 7 different index pages with news and events on seven different categories. I submitted each individual area to the ODP and was well within guidelines, since each pages content was uniquely different from the other. It would be like seven people on geocities or blogspot.com submitting their individual page.

ODP categories are specialized enough so that in most cases a site doesn't need to be listed in more than one place. If a site offers information on a wide variety of topics, it will be placed in a broader category rather than in may specialized subcategories. For example, if you have a site selling tickets for concerts, football games, and amusement parks, the site would not be placed in all three categories. It will most likely be placed in a category for site selling tickets to entertainment events

I am not one site submitting as above, I am seven different sites submitting. ODP does not enforce this rule at the domain level. It can only enforce at the page level, perhaps even the directory level.

[macdesign]

How would you interpret http://editors.dmoz.org/add.html

Identify the single best category for your site. The Open Directory has an enormous array of subjects to choose from. You should submit a site to the single most relevant category. Sites submitted to inappropriate or unrelated categories may be rejected or removed.

Once you've selected the best category for your site, go directly to that category on dmoz.org and then click "suggest URL." Follow the instructions on the submission form carefully.

Procedure After Your Site is Submitted
An ODP editor will review your submission to determine whether to include it in the directory. Depending on factors such as the volume of submissions to the particular category, it may take several weeks or more before your submission is reviewed. Please only submit a URL to the Open Directory once. Again, multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites. Disguising your submission and submitting the same URL more than once is not permitted.

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Submitting more than once to more than one category not only violates the guidelines, it's inconsiderate, as it makes more work for editors. When editors are trying to weed out the multiples, and get rid of single page submissions by changing them to the base URL, it is highly likely all the submitted pages end up getting deleted by accident.

On top of this, since the multiple submissions cast doubt in the editors mind as to whether someone who uses such tactics [we call them agressive submiiters] is also submiitting copies of mirror web sites, you review is more likely to be delayed, while more investigation is done.

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I have someone who keeps doing this, every couple of week he submits a page in his website, it gets changed to the main URL and replaces the previous submission. That ends up dropping it to the bottom of the list. I review that category in date order, he's been doing it for two years, I doubt his site will ever get reviewed.

[roadies]

I have never submitted the same url twice, nor are my submissions related.